Navin Kumar
Senior Distributed System Engineer, Apache Spark at NVIDIA
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNavin Kumar is a Senior Distributed System Engineer specializing in Apache Spark with 14 years of experience building search, analytics, and real-time systems across startups and larger engineering teams. He blends deep systems and networking knowledge (from MIPS/ARM assembly and routing protocols to cloud platforms like GCE/AWS) with hands-on product experience shipping mobile, web, and backend services. As a founder and early-stage engineer he helped launch and scale products at Socialwok, Insight Engines, and Fletch—bringing natural language search and machine-data investigation into enterprise security workflows. He has a strong track record of turning research-grade ideas into customer-ready products, including integrations with Splunk and fast map-reduce pipelines for large query sets. Based in San Francisco with an M.S. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon, he combines startup grit with rigorous engineering across languages from C/C++ to Ruby and Node.js. An uncommon strength is his cross-domain fluency: he can optimize low-level networking or assembly bottlenecks while also designing usable NLP-driven search experiences.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Cornell UniversityM.S., Information Networking, ECE, M.S., Information Networking, ECE at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (13)
java9
spark8
kafka8
druid8
database8
sql8
high-performance8
apache-druid7
analytics7
apache7
hadoop7
big-data7
olap6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nlproc/splunkml
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes in 7 days
navkumar/incubator-druid
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Apache Druid (Incubating) - Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
incubatingidealdata-storeapachebig-data
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