Sumit Kumar
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Kumar is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with eight years of experience building backend systems and cloud services, currently focused on DBaaS. He previously led engineering efforts at Appsmith and spent formative years at Juniper Networks, combining product-facing leadership with deep systems engineering. Sumit contributes to notable open-source work such as the oracle/oci-java-sdk, improving async APIs and token-refresh authentication for Java clients used across OCI. He holds dual degrees (B.Tech/M.Tech) from IIT Kanpur, where his master's thesis automated test-case generation for branch coverage—reflecting a strong foundation in program analysis and tooling. Known for pragmatic code-level ownership, he blends large-scale cloud engineering with hands-on SDK and platform integrations.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
apidoc10
async10
java10
javas10
api10
sdk10
oracle-cloud-infrastructure10
authentication9
user-authentication9
database8
object-storage8
databases8
firebase6
timestamp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
oracle/oci-java-sdk
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SDK for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 16 commits, 15 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily contributed to the Java SDK for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, focusing on the implementation and maintenance of asynchronous API calls, as evidenced by the commit messages referencing releasing versions and code differences within the `ContainerEngineAsync` and `ResourceSearchAsyncClient` classes. The changes involve updating the authentication mechanisms and restructuring code for more efficient token refreshing. Furthermore, the user also contributed to the object storage extensions and database functionalities by updating different SDK versions.
cloud-infrastructureoracle-cloud-infrastructureoracle-cloudinfrastructuresdk
oracle/oci-hdfs-connector
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
HDFS Connector for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Contributions:7 releases, 15 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 1 month
cloud-infrastructureoracle-cloud-infrastructureconnectororacle-cloudinfrastructure
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