Karan Kumar
Senior Engineering Manager at Imply
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Kumar is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building and leading data-platform and analytics engineering teams. He progressed from hands-on backend and DevOps roles to leadership at Imply after impactful staff engineering and platform work at Visa and Ola, focusing on scalable platform-as-a-service solutions. An active Apache Druid committer and PMC member, he has contributed build, Hadoop integration, and cloud storage improvements to a high-performance real-time analytics database used widely in production. Known for bridging deep technical contributions with people leadership, he combines pragmatic infrastructure expertise with a track record of operationalizing open-source systems at scale. A BTech graduate from Manipal, he brings a blend of enterprise and startup experience that helps teams deliver robust, production-ready analytics platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Manipal Institute of TechnologyStepping Stones School
English
Github Skills (11)
maven10
javas10
docker10
apache-druid10
hadoop10
dockers10
build-automation10
java10
continuous-integration9
microsoft-azure9
azure9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/druid
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1274 reviews, 28 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Karan primarily contributed to improving Apache Druid's build and deployment infrastructure, along with supporting Hadoop integration. The commits show a focus on enabling Hadoop 3 support via Maven profiles and modifying build scripts for different Hadoop versions. Furthermore, they also fixed typos in docker build scripts and incorporated changes to Azure Blob storage integration, demonstrating a DevOps focus.
real-timebig-datadruiddatabasehadoop
cryptoe/presto
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:4 commits, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
queryhivequery-enginenosqlmysql
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