Vivek Kumar
Staff Software Engineer at Twilio
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVivek Kumar is a Staff Software Engineer at Twilio working on the Segment platform, bringing a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems that process billions of events daily. He specializes in backend engineering with Golang, Rust, and AWS, and has a track record across enterprise domains from home services and insurance to content management and cloud communications. Vivek contributes to notable open-source projects like Meilisearch, where he improved core logic, search distinctness, and edge-case highlighting—showing a knack for both reliability and nuanced search behavior. His career progression from developer to module lead and staff engineer reflects strong technical ownership and mentoring across teams. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs a Distinction BE in Information Technology with a relentless curiosity for new technologies and pragmatic problem-solving.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, Distinction, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, Distinction at Goa UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (8)
search-engine10
error-handling10
rust10
database9
testing9
databases9
full-text-search8
api6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
meilisearch/meilisearch
Jul 2023 - Oct 2023
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily contributed to the core logic and error handling within the Meilisearch search engine. Their work included refactoring code to hide fields not in the displayed attributes list, fixing a highlighting bug related to phrase searches with cropping, and adding new test cases. They also made code changes related to struct destructuring for analytics aggregation and improved distinct search functionality.
instantsearchtypo-tolerancesynonymsgeosearchdatabase
vivek-26/mongodb-m121-course
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
MongoDB M121 Aggregation Framework Course
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 11 months
aggregation-piplelineatsmongodbaggregation
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