Vishal Kumar
Associate Director - Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Kumar is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and consumer internet companies, currently serving as Associate Director of Engineering at Zepto. He has deep hands-on expertise in Python, JavaScript/Node.js, Java, C++ and SQL, and a B.Tech in Computer Software Engineering from IIT Guwahati. As a founder and CTO he built generative AI SaaS for MSMEs—launching solutions that handled over 100,000 human-to-AI calls and custom ASR/TTS for Indian languages, and architected a platform capable of 20,000 calls per day. At prior roles he led teams of up to 25 engineers, shipped multiple microservices and products from scratch, and drove measurable operational gains such as multi-fold cost and latency improvements. Comfortable both at the code level and in scaling orgs, he blends product intuition with infrastructure know-how to move features to production quickly. Based in Bengaluru, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering discipline and a track record of mentoring and hiring senior engineers.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B-tech Computer Software Engineering, B-tech Computer Software Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiSenior Secondary, Senior Secondary at Shiv Jyoti Public schoolIndirapuram public school
English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
socket2
nodejs2
socket-io2
chat2
nestjs1
typescript1
javascript1
nest1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Devil29/Android
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
swapagarwal/Z
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes in 4 days
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