About

Arvind Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian, where he is currently working on the Jira cloud platform. With over 12 years of relevant experience, Arvind has a strong background in software development, integration, and microservices architecture. He is highly skilled in Java, SQL, AWS, Docker, Kafka, and Spring Boot, among other technologies. Arvind has extensive experience in resiliency, scalability, and proactive monitoring of microservices architecture. He has worked on end-to-end development of new microservice frameworks, including IICS, and its integration with products spanning from development to production deployment, test automation, and code coverage. Arvind has also worked on end-to-end development of Informatica Data Validation web-based product and Master Data Management product development spanning end-to-end feature development like Data Survivorship, Reference data management, and key performance improvement in Teradata MDM Server. At Atlassian, Arvind is primarily focused on improving the performance and scale of Jira Software on cloud to enhance time to interact and solve challenging scalability issues. He designs solutions that can scale and be performant. In his previous role as Principal Software Developer for Informatica Cloud Real Time (ICRT) application integration product on Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) - SAAS, Arvind worked on cloud service integration, API management, and message-oriented architecture using Kafka. Arvind holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Manipal Institute of Technology. He also has a background in multimedia and web technology from Delhi Public School - Bokaro and secondary education and teaching from Bokaro Ispat Vidyalaya. Overall, Arvind is a highly skilled software engineer with expertise in a wide range of technologies. He has a proven track record of developing scalable and performant solutions and is passionate about improving the performance and scale of cloud-based applications.