Vignesh Kumar
Senior Data Platform Software Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVignesh Kumar is a Senior Data Platform Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems in data management and ML infrastructure, currently working at ServiceNow. He combines strong academic credentials—a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from UCSD and a top-ranked BE from BITS Pilani—with hands-on experience in distributed computing, parallel ML workflows, and persistence systems. At UCSD he contributed to Project Cerebro, designing Dask-based ETL and a multi-GPU Model Hopper Parallelism for large-scale model selection, and at American Express he helped evolve distributed AXGBoost used to build tens of thousands of models. He has a track record of quickly adopting new stacks, leading end-to-end features from database-agnostic compaction APIs to enterprise search and scalable pipelines, always prioritizing timely delivery and robustness. Motivated by social impact, he aims to lead development of large-scale software that meaningfully improves user outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of EngineeringJunior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching, 97.6%, Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching, 97.6% at Mount Carmel School, Dwarka, New Delhi
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (39)
portable10
xgboost10
gradient10
dataflow9
spark9
gbm9
java9
gradient-boosting9
python9
scala9
machine-learning9
distributed-systems9
dask9
boosting9
scalable9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VigneshN1997/codenames-haskell
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 2 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 month
VigneshN1997/VigneshN1997.github.io
Dec 2020 - Apr 2023
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:83 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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