Praveen Kumar
Software Engineer at Google
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPraveen Kumar is a software engineer with 13 years of experience focusing on high-performance networking for demanding workloads, currently building networking systems at Google. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at Cornell with research on computer networking and has interned or collaborated with industry leaders including Facebook, Barefoot Networks, and Google’s cloud networking team. His background spans research and product engineering—from programmable network hardware to data center and wide-area backbone design—bringing rigorous experimental methods to production-grade networking stacks. Based in Ithaca, NY, he combines deep academic training with practical cloud-scale impact, and his tenure includes work that directly improves ML infrastructure networking performance.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech. Hons.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech. Hons.), Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurVisiting PhD student, Computer Science, Visiting PhD student, Computer Science at Stanford University
Hindi, English
Github Skills (10)
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interpreter9
programming-language9
compiler8
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highlighting1
hugo1
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bootstrap1
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
merlin-lang/kulfi
Aug 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:379 commits, 281 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
cornell-netlab/yates
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
YATES (Yet Another Traffic Engineering System)
Contributions:78 commits, 64 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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