Karan Kumar is an experienced engineering manager currently at Meta since January 2021, previously serving as a member of technical staff at Cohesity and director of technical services at Instart. Karan's career includes roles at Instart Logic as technical lead/engineering manager, MTS at Couchbase, and member of technical staff at Aster Data Systems. Early experience includes a research assistant role at Carnegie Mellon University, internships at VMware and Bell Labs, and a solid educational background with an MS in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.Tech in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.