About

Jayant Kumar is a highly skilled and experienced professional with over 11 years of expertise in Data and Software Engineering. With a passion for building low latency and high throughput streaming and batch ETL/ELT pipelines, ACID compatible data stores, and clean and high-performing data warehouses at PB scale, Jayant has made significant contributions to the industry. As a Senior Data Engineer at Zoom, Jayant is responsible for building and managing extensible, reusable, and high-performing batch/streaming ETL & ELT pipelines at scale. He has also built and managed ACID compliant data lakes using Apache Spark and Apache Hudi at PB scale and powerful and clean data warehouses using Snowflake, DBT, and Airflow to serve stakeholders with business metrics and KPIs. Additionally, Jayant has supported core platforms and frameworks for Data Ingestion and Governance across different value chains and has supported goal-driven cross-functional collaborations to improve Zoom products' adoption and retention. He has also built and supported foundations for CI+CD pipelines. Jayant has previously worked as a Lead Software Engineer at Walmart and Experian, where he built scalable, reliable, and highly extensible ETL, Data Governance, and Data Quality frameworks using Apache Spark, Akka FSM, and Scala from scratch. He has also built production-grade logging and telemetry systems using Kafka, Kafka Connect, Prometheus, and Grafana and built and managed highly performant and reliable sandbox data warehouses using Apache Hadoop components for customers. Additionally, Jayant has contributed to building and managing a self-service ETL platform using MEAN, Airflow, and Apache Spark and successfully migrated cost-inefficient and cloud-native data pipelines to cost-efficient, cloud-agnostic, and testable pipelines using open-source tools and technologies. Jayant holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Gandhi Institute for Technological Advancement (GITA). He has a wide range of technical skills, including Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, DevOps, ETL, Apache Airflow, AWS, Python, Java, Snowflake, Software Engineering, Hadoop, Data Warehouse, Kafka, Scala, Senior Software Engineering, testing, Apache Hive, GCP, Mobile, Web, CI/CD, SQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, Microservices, SDET, Redis, Docker, Typescript, MySQL, Spring, Azure, and infra. Overall, Jayant Kumar is a seasoned and passionate professional, and his extensive experience and technical skills make him a valuable