Kousik Kumar
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarKousik Kumar is an engineering leader with 16+ years of hands-on experience building scalable web and systems software, currently leading Data Acquisition and Data Quality for Google’s Local Inventory and Vehicle Listing Ads from Bangalore. He has a strong track record of building teams and shipping high-impact features quickly—previously driving multi-million dollar customer experience and scalability improvements on Amazon’s global Product Detail Page. As a co-founder and CTO at LogBase, he brought cloud-native SaaS and IoT products from prototype to production, and earlier work on WAFL at NetApp and Nexus 7000 at Cisco shows deep systems and storage expertise. He combines product sensibility with low-level technical chops—evidenced by contributions to AOSP build system fixes enabling remote build execution—and excels at bridging stakeholders, engineering execution, and platform reliability. Based in Coimbatore, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade delivery and mentoring experience across distributed teams.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
c-compiler10
compiler10
build-system10
build-configuration10
android-build10
makefile10
clang-cl10
clang9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
clangd8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_build
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:288 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kousik primarily worked on core build system files within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Their contributions involved modifying build configuration files (`rbe.mk`, `core/main.mk`), demonstrating an understanding of the build process. These changes involved removing double quotes which caused command line invocation issues when using remote build execution (RBE). Their impact improved the ability to work with RBE efficiently.
ola-rozenfeld/tools_remote
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:31 PRs, 43 pushes, 29 branches in 4 months
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