Nishant Kumar

Nishant Kumar has been working in the tech industry since 2011. Nishant started as an Associate Software Engineer at KONY Labs in 2012 and then moved on to be a Summer Research Intern at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2011. In 2013, they joined Samsung Electronics as a Software Engineer and then a Senior Software Engineer, where they worked on the X-Ray & Ultrasound team and developed back-end servers for two ultrasound models. Nishant also developed DICOM base libraries and SDKs (Windows, C++, CLI, C#, Boost, RPC, WCF, DICOM). In 2015, they joined AppLift as a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead of RTB (Real-time Bidding) Platform. Nishant was responsible for building highly available (HA) large-scale low latency systems that handle ~Million Request/sec with millisecond latency, managing multi-datacenter infrastructure having hundreds of servers, and managing & mentoring team of developer/QA/DevOps. Currently, they are working at Kayzen as a Principal Engineer and Technical Lead.

Nishant Kumar completed a B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur between 2008 and 2012. Nishant also completed 12th grade from S P COLLEGE, DUMKA with a degree in Mathematics and Science. Nishant's educational history also includes a High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates from Bal Bharti, Dumka.