Summary
Rakesh Kumar is a Software Engineer 2 based in Bengaluru with eight years of experience building systems at the intersection of software engineering and silicon tooling. He graduated from IIT Palakkad with a top academic record and has applied his C/C++, Python, Perl and Ruby skills at Rubrik and AMD, improving SoC coverage pipelines and backend services using MongoDB and PostgreSQL. A competitive programmer with strong contest credentials (Google Kick Start Global Rank 96, high Codeforces and CodeChef ratings) and ICPC regional success, he brings algorithmic rigor to production engineering. His background spans operating systems, digital image processing and LSTM-based deep learning projects, reflecting comfort from low-level systems to applied ML. Colleagues value his curiosity and pragmatism—he often translates contest-proven problem solving into measurable improvements in test coverage and developer tooling.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.97, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.97 at Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad