Kumar Pandit

Kumar Pandit is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in the tech industry, currently enhancing productivity through generative AI at Amazon since January 2025. Previous roles include software engineering positions at Coupang, Pinterest, and Twitter, where significant contributions involved designing a high-scale relevance service with exceptional availability. Kumar served as a distinguished engineer at Nordstrom, focusing on system reliability, and held principal and staff engineering roles at Google, contributing to scalable cloud infrastructure and optimized Hadoop operations. Early career at Microsoft included expertise in big-data analytics, machine learning, and social media analysis. Kumar Pandit holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, along with degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai and a special program in Technical Japanese from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.