Karan Kumar
Co-founder Software Engineer at Epilogue Club
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKaran Kumar is a Co-founder and software engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building scalable systems and shipping reliable production software. He blends backend, data, and cloud-native expertise—having automated bioinformatics pipelines, improved Databricks data governance, and simplified Kubernetes RBAC via Helm—delivering measurable reductions in complexity and load times. Past roles at Barclays and BenevolentAI show a track record of maintaining SLAs, applying TDD, and turning operational pain points into automated solutions. He contributes to open-source Android work, notably improving Nearby Connections code to fix permissions and refactor core activity logic. Passionate about AI safety and deep learning, he combines research-oriented interests with pragmatic engineering to move ML and data workflows into production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Nottingham
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
mobile-development10
android10
java10
permission9
bluetooth-le8
bluetooth8
appcompatactivity8
generics6
linked-hash-set6
hashset6
android-recyclerview6
fresco6
google-nearby6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
googlearchive/android-nearby
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
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Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Karan primarily focused on the Android mobile application within the `android-nearby` repository. Their contributions included addressing permission-related errors and refactoring the `ConnectionsActivity.java` file. This involved modifications to the core functionality, likely related to the Nearby Connections feature, as well as improvements to code structure and maintainability. The commits directly impacted the proper functioning of the application.
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Project-Books/project-books.github.io
Apr 2021 - May 2022
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Contributions:4 reviews, 7 PRs, 122 pushes in 1 year
mkdocsdocumentation-site
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