Ashish Kumar

Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Handle

@ashish-sc3k

Role

Senior Software Engineer

Company

LinkedIn

Location

Bengaluru, India

About

I build production systems across security, search, and ML infrastructure. I own zero-to-one platforms, lead cloud-scale migrations, and ship measurable outcomes. I lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and hold a US patent.

Experience

• Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
  May 2022 to now
  Orchestrated a company-wide container security initiative, scaling image scanning coverage from 0% to 99% and compliance from 0% to 90% across approximately 15 million containers. Led a cross-functional team of 8 developers and security engineers to deliver a security review platform, accelerating review cycles by 75%.
• Software Developer 2, L62 at Microsoft
  Apr 2019 to May 2022
  Reduced model-training recovery latency by 10x by designing a lightweight checkpoint-resume framework. Rearchitected a single-point-of-failure hotfix deployment system with a distributed self-service CLI platform adopted by approximately 40 engineers.
• Software Developer 2, L61 at Microsoft
  Apr 2017 to Apr 2019
  Launched Bing Shopping across 4 global markets at approximately 80M queries per month, delivering retailer pages, shopping hubs, local inventory, and product detail experiences end-to-end. Grew shopping monetization by 24% through experimentation-driven delivery of the 1-Click purchase experience.
• Software Developer, L60 at Microsoft
  Nov 2015 to Apr 2017
  Shipped multiple high-visibility Bing Search experiences, including health, sports, local entities, and mobile-first PWA, each with full A/B experimentation and phased rollout. Built internal payload diagnostics tooling to surface search resource bottlenecks.
• Member of Technical Staff at Oracle
  Jun 2013 to Oct 2015
  Designed an intelligent DC allocation system optimizing tenant placement across availability, load, priority, and geo-locality constraints, eliminating manual provisioning. Ensured 24x7 service continuity by implementing automated failover workflows for primary-site disaster scenarios.

Education

• IIT Guwahati, India
  M.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
  2011 to 2013
  CPI 8.58/10
• RGPV, Bhopal, India
  B.E., Information Technology
  2007 to 2011
  73.75%

Skills

• Python
• Java
• C#
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• Microservices
• ETL Pipelines
• REST
• gRPC
• GraphQL
• Container Security
• Kyverno Policy Authoring

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