Biru Kumar

Became part of the decision-making team for the overall company strategy and further expanded the engineering team by hiring 10 more engineers, bringing the total to 25. Optimized recommendation process, reducing the time from 36 hours to 2 hours, enabling multiple daily runs. Fostered a collaborative culture promoting continuous learning and innovation among engineers. Led the transition from AWS to a multi-cloud environment leveraging GCP, achieving significant cost savings. Oversaw the development of new verticals, including Astrological Features and Wedding Division, enhancing product offerings.

Built and scaled the engineering team from 4 to 15 engineers, ensuring alignment with company goals and culture fit. Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines, transitioning from manual deployment to automated Kubernetes cluster deployment. Scaled the application to handle a 3x load increase, improving app response time by 50%. Added redundancy and monitoring systems, significantly enhancing system reliability and performance.

Led a team of 10 engineers, providing architectural guidance and ensuring high-quality, timely feature delivery. Developed key consumer-facing features such as Student Dashboard, Leaderboard, and Personalized Homework. Contributed to architecture discussions, introducing new functionalities like parent-teacher meetings and teacher reports.

Built backend systems from scratch, scaling the product to 500k RPM. Managed hiring, mentoring, and leading backend teams, focusing on infrastructure, security, and cost efficiency.

Developed and maintained user pipeline processing big data from various colos, supporting ad targeting efforts. Implemented Hadoop Map-Reduce architecture for data processing and automated the pipeline framework.

Developed Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions, integrating Service Desk with CEM. Automated testing using Selenium, enhancing software reliability and performance.