Summary
Praveen Kumar is a seasoned systems software engineer with 13 years of experience building networked and distributed systems, now focused on AI networking at Meta. He has a strong track record at Cisco, Oracle, and Sun designing cloud-native, multi-tenant application frameworks, managed Kubernetes infrastructure, and high-performance message and streaming systems using Linux, C/C++, and advanced algorithms. Praveen combines deep platform-level expertise (network systems, storage, and OS internals) with practical product delivery—driving API consistency and developer productivity across large-scale products. His background spans firmware and core router features to modern cloud-native orchestration, giving him a rare end-to-end view of networking stacks from silicon to services. Based in Bengaluru with an MS from Georgia Tech, he brings both systems rigor and a knack for translating complex distributed designs into operational, developer-friendly solutions.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Electronics, B.Tech Electronics at Madras Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Tamil