About

Krishna Kumar is a highly experienced software engineering practitioner with over 30 years of relevant experience. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Google, he has worked in a wide variety of roles, from individual contributor to CTO for a 15000+ organization. He has experience in a wide variety of platforms, from browser toolbars to web-scale applications running on 1000-node clusters. Krishna is well-versed in a wide variety of technologies, from bash scripting for infra support automation to using NLP and AI/ML for complex financial workflows. Krishna's past experience includes working as a CTO at Hexaware Technologies, where he was responsible for automating everything from vision to implementation and evangelization. He has also worked on cloud adoption for AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM in various offerings and has established an Architecture Review Board for design oversight, troubleshooting, and cross-pollination of good practices. Krishna has experience in technical track establishment, initial training, cross-training, and self-learning. He has also incubated virtual reality, augmented reality, and computer vision technology teams. Additionally, he has worked on internal 'eat-your-dog-food' development, including idea management systems, employee assistants, and mobile/cloud/iac/devops. Krishna has worked as an Architect at Altiscale, where he was responsible for AWS-based cluster management, Altiscale Security Infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines for control plane, Proxy Infrastructure, and Altiscale Insight Cloud. Krishna holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is well-versed in a wide range of tech stacks, including Software Engineer, AI, Senior Software Engineer, ML, AWS, infra, NLP, DevOps, Mobile, Web, Computer Vision, Azure, GCP, and CI/CD. With his extensive experience and expertise, Krishna is a valuable asset to any organization.