Manish Kumar
Senior Platform Engineer
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolManish Kumar is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Tokyo with six years of experience building cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes-driven platforms and developer tooling. He has led and architected teams, led platform migrations and built internal systems that cut third-party costs by over $100k while improving CI/CD, monitoring, and developer experience. At Mercari he shipped platform features serving millions of MAUs and prototyped an internal developer portal aimed at thousands of engineers. His startup and YC-backed experience includes running multi-cluster deployments, building data pipelines with Airflow and Snowflake, and reducing query latency by over 90%. Known for blending hands-on infrastructure work with pragmatic leadership, he enjoys learning continuously and contributing to Node.js ecosystems.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, 8.2, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, 8.2 at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and ManagementSenior Secondary, PCM, 88.8%, Senior Secondary, PCM, 88.8% at St. Karen's High School
English, Hindi, Japanese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (181)
programming-language10
python10
github10
windows10
csrf10
authentication10
auth10
nuxt-auth10
javascript10
single-page-application10
solidjs10
linux10
dynamodb10
rest10
jwt10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
manishprivet/portfolio
Aug 2020 - Apr 2023
My personal portfolio made with Reactjs and uses Firebase for some tiny-miny backend tasks. Also has Github and Spotify APIs using serverless functions to dynamically render data.
Contributions:8 PRs, 80 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
backendfirebasereactserverless-functionsspotify-api
manishprivet/manishprivet
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 64 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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