Summary
Surender Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building data-intensive systems at Rippling after earlier stints at ServiceNow and Novopay. He combines strong foundations from IIT Mandi in electrical engineering with hands-on expertise in Java, Python, Flink, Presto/Pinot, Kafka and CDC pipelines to design efficient ingestion and query systems. At Rippling he led the RQL-to-SQL translation work and engineered an automated MongoDB→Pinot pipeline with CI-driven schema updates that eliminated manual table creation and improved reliability. Previously he drove on-call scheduling and Slack integrations at ServiceNow, owning feature design and stakeholder demos as the module SME. Known for a passion for algorithms and "coding as an addiction," he focuses on high-performance, production-grade solutions and operational stability at scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi