Summary
Siddharth Kumar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience and 8+ years focused on building high-scale, low-latency systems, currently driving platform work at Walmart from Sunnyvale. He has a strong backend pedigree in Java/Spring Boot and distributed systems, with proven impact at Amazon improving cold-start performance and implementing continuous-deployment test automation. His background spans end-to-end engineering—from integrating Redis and ML-based recommendation engines to migrating search stacks to PostgreSQL to reduce resource use—paired with hands-on frontend work in AngularJS. A CS master’s graduate from San Jose State, he also brings research experience in deep learning, blockchain ordering services, and NLP, reflecting a blend of production-grade engineering and academic rigor. Notably, he has repeatedly improved system availability and latency through pragmatic infrastructure and caching choices, making him effective at turning research ideas into operational features.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Technology at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
English, Hindi