Summary
Ashish Kumar is a Principal Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading teams to design and deliver large-scale distributed systems across Microsoft and GitHub, currently driving outcomes for Microsoft Azure and Sovereign Cloud. He combines deep technical breadth—Node.js, .NET Core, Ruby on Rails, Django, SQL/NoSQL, CI/CD on Azure DevOps and GitHub Workflows—with a focus on scalable, resilient cloud architectures and AI-enabled solutions. Known for mentoring and cross-functional collaboration, he applies a "Model-Coach-Care" leadership approach to foster innovation and engineering rigor. His background spans embedded systems and firmware to web and cloud platforms, giving him a rare end-to-end systems perspective that informs pragmatic architectural trade-offs. Based in Bengaluru, he brings product-minded engineering to complex, high-impact projects such as GitHub Marketplace and npm-related ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology