Sumit Kumar
Computer Scientist II at Adobe
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Kumar is a Computer Scientist II at Adobe with nine years of engineering experience building robust backend systems and compiler-related tooling. An IIT Guwahati alumnus, he has progressed through multiple technical roles at Adobe after earlier engineering work at Samsung R&D, demonstrating a steady track record of shipping production-quality code. He contributes to prominent open-source projects such as Emscripten—improving WebAssembly exception handling and refining compilation workflows—highlighting expertise at the intersection of systems, tooling, and JavaScript/WASM interoperability. A competitive programming enthusiast who also loves cricket, he combines algorithmic rigor with pragmatic engineering to tackle complex debugging and refactoring tasks. Based in Noida, Sumit brings a disciplined academic foundation and hands-on experience modernizing developer tooling in large, collaborative codebases.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, 8.74, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, 8.74 at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiAssociate’s Degree, Science, 78.2%, Associate’s Degree, Science, 78.2% at Gaya College, GayaHigh School, 9.8, High School, 9.8 at Manas International Public School, Jehanabad
English, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
emscripten10
javascript10
webassembly10
exception-handling10
llvm9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
emscripten-core/emscripten
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Emscripten: An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 2 commits, 13 PRs in 25 days
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily contributed to the Emscripten project by adding missing signatures for JavaScript library functions. They implemented checks for unsupported webassembly.exception.stack and addressed issues related to exception handling within the compilation process. Their work also involved code modifications related to exception stack traces and changes to the `parseTools.js` and `runtime_exceptions.js` and `test/test_other.py` files, indicating a focus on improving exception handling and compilation workflows. Furthermore, they performed refactoring, changing `os.rename` to `os.replace` in the `tools/link.py` file.
compileremscriptenllvmwebassemblywasm
ravisumit33/vim-configurations
Nov 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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