Jithin Sukumar
Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolJithin Sukumar is a software engineer based in Tokyo with 10 years of experience building high-throughput data pipelines and search infrastructure. He currently develops metrics and pipelines at Indeed to measure marketplace liquidity while partnering closely with research and business teams to surface market-vs-inventory gaps. Previously at Mercari he engineered search-index aggregation serving >10k reads/sec and >1k writes/sec and introduced a transliteration model that improved query-to-conversion latency. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like Apache Airflow, adding BigQuery integrations and improving CI/CD and web UI features. Trained at IIT Kharagpur in electrical engineering and certified in Python from MITx, he blends systems-level rigor with data-driven product focus. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who steadily improves team processes to scale impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 9.24/10, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 9.24/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi, Japanese, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
apache-airflow10
automation10
automations10
workflow-engine10
orchestration10
orchestra10
bigquery10
python10
cicd10
gcp10
data-engineering9
testing9
sql7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 PRs, 15 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jithin contributed to the backend code by adding features to the web UI and incorporating BigQuery integration. They also worked on improving the CI/CD process, specifically addressing issues in the testing framework and build process. Their work included implementing and testing features, as well as general bug fixes and improvements to the overall workflow.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
jithin-sukumar/airflow
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:37 pushes, 10 branches in 3 months
monitorbigqueryapacheprogrammaticallyapache-airflow
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