Nitin Kumar
Data Architect
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolNitin Kumar is a Data Architect based in San Jose with over 18 years of experience designing and delivering scalable distributed data platforms across on-prem and cloud environments. He specializes in Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark, ElasticSearch, and cloud-native patterns (AWS, Google Anthos), and has a strong Java/Spring and JEE background applied to high-throughput data pipelines. At Western Digital and previously at Apple he architected ingestion and processing pipelines for terabyte-scale datasets, optimizing storage and query patterns with Hive, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch. Author of two Hadoop-focused books and an active Stack Overflow contributor, he blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and architectural leadership. A math and computer science graduate, he brings a pragmatic mix of performance tuning, lifecycle discipline (Agile/Scrum/RUP), and multi-technology program delivery to complex global systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Statistics at University of Allahabad
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
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Github contributions (5)
hadoopessence/MapReduce
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 15 days
nitins30/poc-helm-flux2
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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