About

Kumar Vivek is a Lead Software Engineer at BlueJeans by Verizon with over 6 years of relevant experience in software development. He specializes in Backend, Data Engineering & Analytics, and Java. Kumar is currently working at Verizon as a Lead Software Engineer where he has developed a strong passion for coding, data, and mathematics. He believes in using his skills to solve real-life problems and make the world a better place to live. Kumar is also committed to overall development and focuses on extracurriculars at the same time. Kumar has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Verizon, where he was responsible for developing and deploying changes to the Analytics platform. He has scaled the product on multiple fronts to support a traffic of 300% increment and implemented AWS Quicksight, which saved around 90% cost. Kumar has developed multiple microservices, data pipelines, and rest services and has worked on technologies such as Kafka, Storm, SQL/NoSQL databases, ElasticSearch, Redis, Flink, and Kubernetes. He has also handled production issues and mentored interns and freshers. Before joining Verizon, Kumar worked as a Software Engineer at Finastra, where he worked with the Platform team and primarily coded in Java. He worked on various modules/frameworks such as Spring, Persistence, Encryption, Hibernate, Caching, Multi-Entity, Batch, Scheduler, and new Repository Implementation - File Based. Kumar also developed APIs for applications, worked on RESTful services, Kafka integration with applications, and wrote Junits for developed APIs. He also worked on Batch/Shell scripting and ELK (Elastic stack)/Azure OMS solution for log/app monitoring. Kumar has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from PES University, and he completed his high school education from DAV Public School, Hazaribag. He has expertise in Software Engineering, Backend, Data Engineering, Java, SQL, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, NoSQL, Elastic Search, Microservices, Spring, Azure, and Integration. Kumar's experience and skills make him a valuable asset to any organization.