Cherub Kumar is a founding engineer and seasoned software developer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native web applications from early support roles to senior engineering and startup leadership. Based in San Francisco, he spent a decade at Zendesk advancing from Tier 2 support to Senior Software Engineer, honing expertise in Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, SQL, Unix/Linux, and SaaS enterprise patterns. He combines hands-on backend craftsmanship with a pragmatic product sense—comfortable shipping scalable features and troubleshooting production issues across the stack. Now leading engineering at withQ, he brings both operational rigor from support engineering and architecture experience from large-scale SaaS. A University of Wisconsin–Madison CS graduate, he pairs solid academic fundamentals with a track record of turning customer-facing problems into reliable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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