Karan Kumar
Software Engineering Manager at WhatsApp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Kumar is a seasoned software engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading high-performance teams across infrastructure and growth engineering at companies from startups to Meta and WhatsApp. He combines deep systems and performance engineering roots (Carnegie Mellon MS, early work at VMware and Couchbase) with hands-on management of large-scale production services. At Instart Logic and Cohesity he moved from individual contributor to technical lead and director roles, and now drives engineering at Meta and WhatsApp in the Bay Area. He’s comfortable both shipping product-facing features and architecting backend reliability and scalability, and has presented at Velocity—an indicator of his practical expertise in performance engineering. Based in San Francisco, he blends research-oriented rigor with pragmatic execution, mentoring teams to turn complex distributed systems challenges into operational products.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanMS Information Networking, MS Information Networking at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.Tech Computer Engineering, B.Tech Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
ssim9
webpagetest8
visualization5
video-processing5
kotlin4
performance-monitoring4
kubernetes3
gitops2
logic1
nextjs1
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kakumar/environment-geckoink-staging
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 2 days
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