Atul Kumar
Senior Engineer at DigitalOcean
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAtul Kumar is a Senior Engineer based in Bengaluru with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems and production-ready deep learning solutions. Trained as a metallurgical engineer with a CS minor from IIT Kharagpur, he blends strong analytical instincts with practical software craftsmanship. He has shipped low-latency streaming pipelines and Kafka-based architectures for real-time market data, implemented caching and queueing strategies to improve system throughput, and built GPT-powered finance chatbots. Past work spans product-focused roles at startups and platform engineering at scale, with hands-on experience in WebSockets, Redis, MySQL, and observability tooling. Curious by nature, he often bridges ML research and engineering—having developed LSTM-attention summarizers and Mask R-CNN vision models early in his career. He’s driven by turning complex data flows and models into reliable, production-ready services.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary, Secondary at D. A. V Public School Senior Secondary Central Board of Secondary Education, Senior Secondary Central Board of Secondary Education at Holy Cross Public SchoolBachelor's degree Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | Computer Science and Engineering(Minor), Bachelor's degree Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | Computer Science and Engineering(Minor) at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurJEE preparation, JEE preparation at Super 30
English, Hindi, Sanskrit
Github Skills (21)
search-engine10
java10
elasticsearch10
opensearch9
restful9
documentation8
temperature8
science8
nextjs8
mdx8
preact8
astrophysics7
supernova7
react7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
atul107/Image_Parsing
May 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
Atkatul/hello-world
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year
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