Ashish Kumar
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshish Kumar is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable backend services and cloud-integrated applications, currently contributing to supply chain sourcing tools at Microsoft in the Greater Seattle area. An IIT Kanpur alumnus, he has strong hands-on experience with Azure services, search and caching architectures, and microservice patterns from internships and full-time roles at Microsoft and IIT Kanpur. He has implemented production knowledge‑base search, telemetry-driven dashboards, and read-through/write-through caching, demonstrating an ability to translate analytics into operational improvements. Beyond code, he’s contributed technical documentation to the popular Read the Docs project, highlighting a knack for making complex systems approachable. Known for blending rigorous CS fundamentals with pragmatic engineering, he thrives on delivering reliable, data-informed features that improve business workflows.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Hindi, English
Github Skills (4)
restructuredtext10
sphinx-doc10
documentation10
webhooks9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
readthedocs/readthedocs.org
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
The source code that powers readthedocs.org
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 27 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Ashish primarily focused on updating and enhancing the documentation for the project. Their contributions included adding guides for build notifications, detailing webhook configurations, and correcting typos within the documentation. The user's work ensured the documentation was clear, accurate, and helpful for other users of the readthedocs.org project.
mkdocspythonpowerssphinxsphinx-doc
akashks1998/crux
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Compiler for c-- language ( a subset of c++ ) written in python as part of course project in CS335(Compiler Design)
Contributions:193 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 months
pythoncppcompiler-designcompilersubset
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