Ashwanth Kumar
India
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SeniorAshwanth Kumar is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Chennai with 15 years of experience building and scaling data-driven products and infrastructure across startups and public companies. He has led large distributed systems work—crawler and scheduler platforms, a 3+ billion HTML archive, and pipelines handling billions of records—while driving >$1M/year AWS savings through automation and Spot Instance strategies. As Principal Engineer at Indix and Avalara he shipped high-confidence product matching, automated tax-change detection workflows, and a no-code self-serve platform for researchers. He now builds signal-driven ad tech at ShelfRadar.ai and runs AK Labs to help teams move from 0→1 quickly through hands-on engineering, architecture, and delivery coaching. Known for pragmatic open-source tooling (see github.com/ashwanthkumar) and a knack for turning messy data problems into production-ready systems, he blends deep technical craft with product-focused thinking.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (200)
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github10
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distributed-computing10
aws-s310
instantsearch10
fuzzy-search10
client-library10
continuous-testing10
algolia10
continuous-delivery10
github-api10
pipeline10
database10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
indix/vamana
Oct 2015 - May 2018
Autoscaling toolkit based on custom Application Metrics
Contributions:7 releases, 62 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 6 months
autoscaling
indix/bubblewrap
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Asynchronous crawler utils
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 4 months
asynchronouscrawler
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