J Kumar
Head Of Engineering at Elsa AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolJ Kumar is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of hands-on experience across software development, DevOps, SRE, cloud and security, currently leading engineering at Elsa AI. He spent 12 years at a fast-moving startup (Practo) evolving from developer to architect and platform lead, driving cloud cost optimizations, ISO 27001 security practices, and developer productivity tools like Staging Factory and Deplex. Comfortable both in the codebase and in executive decision-making, he has practical experience containerizing microservices, running Kubernetes clusters, and automating resiliency and cost strategies (spot nodes, RDS reservations, Glacier). An early open-source contributor, he implemented multimodal routing in pgRouting via Google Summer of Code and continues to harden build processes and SQL utilities in community projects. Passionate about cybersecurity and lifelong learning, he blends pragmatic engineering with a preference for honest, impact-driven cultures. Based in Bengaluru, he’s as likely to be reviewing a critical PR as he is to be exploring a new security or cloud optimization technique.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at KCG College of Technology
Github Skills (11)
cmake10
postgresql10
sql10
database9
postgis9
admin9
database-administration9
url-routing9
databases9
postgresql-extension7
network-analysis7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pgRouting/pgrouting
May 2011 - Aug 2011
Repository contains pgRouting library. Development branch is "develop", stable branch is "master"
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:J primarily focused on improving the build process and making the "distclean" target more robust by deleting various generated files. They addressed bugs related to the cleanup process, ensuring that all unnecessary files, including `.so` files, were removed. Additionally, the user contributed to the SQL code by adding a schema argument to the `assign_vertex_id` function, enhancing its flexibility.
spatial-analysispostgresql-extensionmastermap-matchingosgeo
practo/libphonenumber-for-php
May 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:28 commits in 1 year 5 months
phone-numberphonephpphp-versionhandling
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