Kumar Pratyush
Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKumar Pratyush is a seasoned software leader with over 15 years of experience managing large engineering teams and more than 25 years in software development, currently leading the ElastiCache control plane at AWS from Redmond. He specializes in building and operating massive distributed, low-latency, high-throughput in-memory data platforms (Memcached and Redis) used by fast-growing startups and large enterprises. Known for scaling teams of ~50 engineers, he blends hands-on systems design with product-minded operational excellence to simplify deployment and management of cloud caching services. His background spans enterprise and consumer software at Adobe and Autodesk, giving him deep C/C++ systems experience across Windows, macOS and Unix before transitioning to cloud-scale services. He frequently mentors engineers and drives cross-functional efforts to improve performance, reliability and developer experience. An engineer-manager who still codes and debugs, he brings a pragmatic mix of technical depth and people leadership to mission-critical distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at Banaras Hindu UniversityXII Maths, Physics, Chemistry, XII Maths, Physics, Chemistry at Central Hindu School
Github Skills (55)
paypal10
minecraft10
tesla10
artificial-intelligence10
robotics10
acc10
autopilot10
ram10
cruisecontrol10
genesis10
gm10
driver10
ai10
params10
decoder10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dragonpilot/dp-devel
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Development branch for dragonpilot
Contributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 22 PRs in 3 months
autopilotminecraftautonomous-vehiclesdragonpilot
dragonpilot/panda
Jun 2022 - May 2024
code powering the comma.ai panda
Contributions:1 review, 30 PRs, 142 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pandacommapython
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