Vaibhav Kumar
Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo, Inc (previouly known as Verizon Media/Oath/Aol)
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolVaibhav Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years’ experience building backend systems and a focused interest in distributed systems, currently contributing to Yahoo from Austin, TX. He has a long tenure across the AOL/Verizon Media/Yahoo family, delivering mail and backend services and progressing from engineer to senior roles. Trained at Carnegie Mellon in embedded software engineering, he combines systems-level thinking with production-scale service design and a practical background in signal processing and embedded constraints. Known for steady ownership in large legacy environments, he brings both academic rigor and hands-on experience solving performance, reliability, and scalability challenges in consumer-facing platforms.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
CBSE, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Computer Science, CBSE, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Computer Science at Rajhans VidyalayaBachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Vellore Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), Information Technology - Embedded Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Information Technology - Embedded Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (13)
networking9
telemetry9
scale8
yahoo8
python8
ecosystem7
big-data7
snmp6
monitoring6
testing5
docker5
container3
kubernetes3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (4)
yahoo/panoptes_documentation
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Documentation for the yahoo/panoptes project
Contributions:2 reviews, 27 commits, 14 PRs in 7 months
pythonnetworkingbig-datatelemetryyahoo
yahoo/panoptes_docker
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Containerized version of Panoptes for testing and experimentation.
Contributions:4 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
containersexperimentationtestingnetworkingcontainerized
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