Summary
Dileep Kumar is a seasoned data and streaming platform leader with 12+ years of experience building high-performance real-time and batch analytics at scale, currently heading Data and Streaming Platform at Cisco. He combines deep expertise in SQL-on-Hadoop engines, performance tuning, sizing and SaaS lifecycle management with hands-on experience across cloud, container, and middleware technologies from roles at Cloudera, Oracle, Apple and Sun. His work includes contributions to benchmark development (TPC) and publications on scaling Impala and availability modeling, reflecting a rare blend of engineering rigor and practical operational insight. Known for leading cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical streaming and IoT analytics, he excels at optimizing systems for latency, throughput and cost across public and private clouds. Based in California with an MS in Engineering Management, he pairs academic grounding with decades of production-scale performance engineering. A detail that often surprises peers: he has authored early Solaris/WebSphere guidance and performance whitepapers that continue to inform cloud-era reliability practices.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Engineering Management, M.S., Engineering Management at Santa Clara University
B.S., Computer Science & Engineering, B.S., Computer Science & Engineering at J.N.E.C, Aurangabad