Ashwani Kumar
Senior Director Of Engineering at Nielsen
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAshwani Kumar is a Senior Director of Engineering based in Bengaluru with 11 years of hands-on experience and 14+ years designing highly scalable systems across data engineering, ML, and SaaS backend platforms. He has led end-to-end data and platform initiatives at organizations including Nielsen, Embibe, Facebook and Mimecast, building resilient data pipelines, real-time fraud detection, and large-scale SaaS services using Spark, Kafka, Druid, MongoDB and cloud-native microservices. Known for blending technical depth with people leadership, he consistently drives performance optimization, capacity planning and DevOps-aligned cost efficiencies while mentoring high-performing teams. His background in AI/ML (MS and multiple nano/postgrad credentials) informs pragmatic adoption of ML and generative AI into production workflows. A former game and IoT systems engineer, he brings a rare mix of low-latency distributed-systems experience and data-science-led product thinking.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Btech Information Technolgy, Btech Information Technolgy at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of TechnologyPost Graduate Diploma in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Post Graduate Diploma in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreMachine Learning Advanced Nano degree Machine Leanring, Machine Learning Advanced Nano degree Machine Leanring at UdacityMaster of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Liverpool John Moores University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (169)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ashwanikumar04/ashwanikumar04.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:12 pushes in 5 years 6 months
ashwanikumar04/good-to-read
Oct 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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