Ashwin Kumar

Ashwin Kumar has a wealth of experience in various roles. Ashwin began their career in 2014 as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent, where they facilitated sessions for first year undergraduate students in Introductory Java on BlueJ and Web Development for second year undergraduates. Ashwin also supervised first year undergraduates in Further Object Oriented Programming in BlueJ and second year undergraduates in Software Engineering. In 2015, they took on the role of Software Pilot at Trifork, where they were involved in the backend and testing of a web-based product dealing with ElasticSearch, Python (Django Framework) and Docker on a day-to-day basis. Ashwin was then asked to take on responsibilities of an Evangelist in San Francisco. In 2016, they worked as a Software Engineer at Kaliber Labs and as a Software Evangelist at The Perfect App Ltd. From 2017 to 2021, they worked at Seerene as an Engineering Manager for the SaaS platform, managing a team of engineers across the stack. Ashwin facilitated multiple consequential projects for the company and migrated the on-premise Postgresql Server to Azure's DbaaS, reducing infrastructure costs by ~45k euros p. Currently, Ashwin Kumar is an Engineering Manager at Delivery Hero.

Ashwin Kumar is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, which they started in 2020 and is expected to complete in 2022. Prior to this, they obtained a Master of Science (MSc) in Advanced Software Development from the University of Kent in 2015. Ashwin also holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Bedfordshire, which they completed in 2014. Additionally, they have obtained certifications in Duolingo German Fluency: Intermediate (Estimated) from Duolingo in 2015, and MongoDB certifications in M102 MongoDB for DBAs and Mongo 101P MongoDB for Developers.