Summary
Rahul Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native solutions. Currently at Oracle OCI leading OpenSearch efforts for AI and data services, he has a track record of building products from inception to millions of users, including founding roles on Adobe’s Real-Time Collaboration platform that handles billions of messages monthly. He combines deep systems architecture skills with practical delivery experience across companies like Arista, Compass, and Samsung, improving search performance and designing license management and zero-touch provisioning features. An NIT Durgapur graduate, Rahul also runs a technical blog and founded TecAdmin.net, reflecting a long-standing commitment to developer education and practical tooling. Colleagues know him for blending low-latency engineering (sub-10ms collaborative features) with operational rigor in production-grade cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Durgapur
English, Hindi