About

Lokesh Kumar is an accomplished Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 16 years of experience in the technology industry. He currently leads a team of talented engineers responsible for a high-load distributed data service running on hundreds of thousands of nodes and across multiple global regions. His team works on state-of-the-art storage technologies and solves challenging problems in availability, consistency, and reliability of systems. Lokesh is also responsible for leading the StreamSCOPE team, a real-time big data stream processing system on COSMOS for continuous computation on an unbounded, real-time, incoming data stream. With a strong background in computer science and engineering, Lokesh has worked on several projects in the past, including being a Senior Software Engineer in the Big Data Platform Group at Microsoft, where he shipped many features in StreamScope - a real-time complex event processing system for large-scale, unbounded data streams. He has also worked as a Research Fellow at Broad Institute. Lokesh has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His technical expertise includes Senior Software Engineering, Big Data, Azure, SQL, Software Engineering, NoSQL, and Research Science. As an experienced Principal Engineering Manager, Lokesh has a proven track record of delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced environment. He is a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills, and he is always looking for ways to improve processes and drive innovation. Lokesh is passionate about technology and is committed to delivering value to his customers.