Summary
Mugdha Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and big-data platforms, currently contributing to Microsoft after senior roles at Oracle. She brings deep hands-on expertise in Apache Spark, Hive, Kafka and HBase, and is proficient across Scala, Java and Python for data processing and scalable system design. Her background blends production engineering with research-rooted problem solving from a University of Florida MS in Computer Engineering, where she worked on provenance and knowledge-base integration projects that inform her attention to data integrity and interoperability. Experienced in agile delivery and performance-focused testing, she has also built automation and deployment solutions using Docker, nginx and CI tooling—often solving non-obvious ops challenges like containerized SSH forwarding and static content routing. Mugdha’s combination of enterprise product delivery and low-level systems work makes her effective at turning complex data requirements into performant, maintainable services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
CORe, Pass, CORe, Pass at Harvard Business School Online
92.4%, 92.4% at DAV
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 7.75, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 7.75 at Mody Institute of Technology and Science Rajasthan
High School, 85%, High School, 85% at Delhi Public School Bokaro Jharkhand India
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, 3.63, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, 3.63 at University of Florida
Hindi, English