Abhishek Kumar

Abhishek Kumar is a skilled Backend Engineer with substantial experience in transforming backend systems and architecture across multiple companies. Currently functioning as a Backend Engineer 2 at Abnormal Security since June 2023, Abhishek previously held the same title at Bright Money, where significant contributions included migrating a monolithic backend to a microservices architecture that enhanced user capacity tenfold and minimized downtime. Prior roles include Backend Engineer - I at Bright Money, where Abhishek improved customer satisfaction by refactoring a Django-based Liability Manager system, and a Backend Developer position at Alphonso Inc., credited with developing the Lazy Match system that decreased unidentified video clips by over 64%. Abhishek's earlier research work under Dr. Gopalan Sajith at IIT Guwahati resulted in a thesis focused on load balancing in distributed systems, complemented by a research internship at Samsung R&D Institute India, where user behavior prediction models were refined. Abhishek holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, attained in 2019.