Ashu Kumar
Staff Data Engineer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAshu Kumar is a Staff Data Engineer based in Montreal with 8+ years building cloud-native data platforms and automation across AWS and Azure. He has 5x AWS and 2x Azure certifications and a track record of slashing costs and deployment times—e.g., 3x faster ML deploys, 60% S3 storage reduction via LF tags, and multi-thousand-dollar annual savings from video and processing optimizations. Ashu architects and automates end-to-end data lakes and ETL on EMR, Glue, Databricks and Redshift while enforcing governance (Unity Catalog, PIPEDA) and RBAC at scale. He leads teams to productionize Airflow DAGs, CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform-driven IAC, consistently converting research and ML needs into reliable, monitored services. A hands-on founder and hackathon winner, he brings robotics and IoT experience to creative problem solving and has repeatedly rescued critical systems (notably fixing an FFMPEG bug that saved $100k).
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Concordia UniversityDelhi public school, kashiBachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at SRM IST ChennaiSt.Anthony school,kurseong
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (6)
opencv-contrib9
precompiled8
pypi7
python5
opencv5
toolchain3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kin-kins/alexa_skills
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
kin-kins/sattelite
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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