Ashesh Kumar
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAshesh Kumar is a Software Engineer II based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and digital public goods. He has substantial open-source impact on healthcare infrastructure, contributing 500+ PRs to the CARE TeleICU project where he focused on Django backend, API robustness, data validation and schema work. At eGov Foundation and previous roles he has resolved hundreds of priority issues, implemented CI/CD, multithreaded data pipelines, and runtime optimizations that significantly improved performance and throughput. Now at Microsoft, he continues to apply cloud and full-stack experience learned across startups and enterprise projects, including AI assistant work (Ayushma) and monitoring/automation features. Notably, his contributions blend pragmatic bug fixes with schema and validation improvements—work that keeps critical public health systems reliable in production.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering at SSIPMT
Github Skills (16)
apim10
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
postgresql10
data-validation10
python10
back-end-development10
api-design10
django10
restful-api10
health9
ehealth9
medical9
hmac8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ohcnetwork/care
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Care is a Digital Public Good enabling TeleICU & Decentralised Administration of Healthcare Capacity across States.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:214 reviews, 21 commits, 104 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ashesh primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `care` repository, focusing on API endpoints and data validation. They implemented features such as allowing DELETE methods for bed endpoints and fixing error formatting. Additionally, the user added checks for empty comments and notes in the serializers and fixed validation issues related to bed shifting and password reset functionality. The commits also involved database schema adjustments and model updates, demonstrating a strong understanding of the data layer.
bedintegratedpatientallocationdigital-public-goods
Ashesh3/care_fe
May 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:25 PRs, 310 pushes, 270 branches in 1 year 5 months
bedintegratedpatientallocationstrategy
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