Summary
Sudhendu Kumar is a software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in systems, networking, and distributed platform resilience, currently working on AdTech services at Walmart Global Tech. He has deep expertise in networked systems design—spanning load balancing, programmable switches (P4), telemetry, and container/Kubernetes networking—gained through research, teaching, and production work. At Walmart he has driven global governance automation with Agents/LLMs and strengthened payment platform resiliency across application and network layers at scale. An educator at heart, he spent years as a graduate teaching assistant and bootcamp instructor building hands-on labs that reconcile conflicting objectives in load balancing and network design. He holds an MS and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Engineering from NC State, and brings a rare blend of academic rigor, practical systems engineering, and a knack for turning teaching-driven curiosity into robust production solutions.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
under graduate information technology/sciences, under graduate information technology/sciences at B. M. S. College of Engineering
English, Hindi