Kishore K Kumar

Experience

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  Yahoo

  Feb 2001 - Nov 2018

  Effectively manage group of Engineering and Support teams. Identify their core strengths andalign the team activities accordingly. Direct day-to-day activities of team by providing functional,design, implementation and test details and code reviews. Ensure technical training anddevelopment of team.Lead onsite and offsite technical teams and establish best practices for all aspects of softwaredevelopment with an emphasis on team management, software deployment, scalability, andsecurity.Completed Merger of Yahoo and AOL Ad platforms resulting in efficient monetization of Ads.Implemented New Ad Platform (AKA Premium) with New UI, REST APIs, and ESB.Provided new reporting system using Druid Technology with predictive analytics.Member Application Architecture Review Group; College Graduates Hiring committeeand Data Architecture Review Group. Show less Engineering leader responsible for Data platform Engineering teams engaged in DisplayAdvertising /Sales Tools CRM platform (SFDC), Display Advertising Applications and Tools,Inventory Management Systems, Billing and Payment platforms.Experienced in managing people, process and infrastructure for high-availability, large volume,multi-site, large scale advertising.Provided introduction, evaluation and strategy for cloud migration. Coached andimplemented Agile development.Budgeted manpower and resources. 24/7 site up and customer implementations.Developed and fostered culture of innovation and accountability.Engaged with Development, Architecture, Sales, Operations, and Account managers toensure optimal technical and business results.Developed and implemented plans to transform from Operational/Service engineering toDev-OPS and moved operations to OC and SRE teams.Stabilized and improved platform in terms of incidents and efficiency.Managed and supervised implementation of organizational and operational efficiencies byhardware reduction, performance improvement of software, alerts consolidation.Initiated and completed full CI/CD of core and production engineering services. Zero clicksto production.Experienced in high-velocity continuous global development and deployments.Managed availability, incidents, new monitoring platform including APM, synthetics andevent correlation.Automation of DeploymentsTransitioned Datacenter to AWS/Azure/GCP.Transitioned teams from Ops to SRE with focus on reliability, Agile, Automation andmonitoring.Key player in Yahoo Premium Transition from Yahoo Legacy Ad Platform.Moved operations to new datacenter and authored disaster recovery process.Designed, developed and deployed ZERO downtime model, saving millions of dollars forcompany and Delivered unified data replication platform from multiple data sources ( Oracle/MySQL) Show less Oversaw database operations and infrastructure for one of the worlds largest multibillion-dollar,Internet media/search companies. Technical leadership, strategic direction, and teammanagement skills combined with solid knowledge of RDBMS, Networking, and Storage andCloud technologies.Built and managed world class organization with proven record of delivering projects on time,within budget and with excellent quality. Engaged in the design, build and management of large-scale systems to solve complex problem of scaling.Managed business critical Oracle, MySQL , MS SQL database applications that rangefrom a few terabytes to 500 terabytes. Deployed using Oracle RAC 10g/11g (2-16 nodeclusters).Expert in enterprise class storage options from Netapp, EMC, Exadata, and Teradata.Managed Yahoo Data Operations250+ Billion events processed on daily basis. Multiple pipelines that generated over 75TB ofdata/day. 50PB of data across multiple Hadoop clusters.Technical leader in data stores and large-scale production engineering with outstandingability to lead and develop people, processes and technology.Experienced in managing BIG Data on Hadoop ecosystem, Peta Bytes of data marts anddata warehouses on Oracle. Also responsible for critical systems on MySQL and NoSQL. Show less

  • Senior Leadership Ad Tech Platforms

    Mar 2014 - Nov 2018

  • Senior Manager Data Platform Engineering

    Mar 2008 - Mar 2014

  • Senior Software Engineer Data Systems

    Feb 2001 - Mar 2008
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  The Coca-Cola Company

  Mar 2020 - Mar 2022

  Head of Engineering/Data Platforms

  Lead Projects related to Transition from on-premises to Azure Tech stack for data and Analytics platforms. Including Data & Applications migration for high scalability, elasticity and to support distributed architectureManage a global team that gets deeply involved with product design, develops large scale distributed and operable data solutionsArchitected and built a unified Bottler/Sales platform to deliver data in near real time to the Hadoop ecosystem using Kafka as the transportation layer. This paved the way to establishing SLAs for data availability and subsequently, helping the data scientists and relevant teams to iterate through multiple models. Show less

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  Charter Communications

  Mar 2022 - now

  Director of Engineering

  Spearheaded the development and delivery of Suit of Spectrum Applications responsible for Backend Services across the Enterprise, improving service efficiency across the enterprise API Platform.Enhanced customer experience through innovative outage management , Account Support, Customer Notifications and billing services API platforms.Increase the Adoption and Improve the quality of Self Install Services for the customers which reduces the cost of field operations to the tune of Millions of dollars.Modernization of Test Suites , improve API quality metrics, and improve the security and compliance features. Show less