Savitribai Phule Pune University

Fergusson College

Abhinav College

Model English School

Engineering Leader / Mentor / Big Data / ML

ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)

Director of Engineering

Volunteer as leadership mentor at Plato, completed more than 50 mentoring sessions since 2019 helping new engineering leaders. 

https://www.platohq.com/mentors/kunal-umrigar

Plato

Leadership Mentor

Sr. Engineering Manager

•	Optimized data processing performance by 2X to save significant hardware cost for a large-scale big data platform that processes more than 50TB of data & 700+ billion transactions per day.
•	Manage, supervise & provide guidance on design & architecture to a team of 20+ software & data engineers to develop multiple large-scale ingestion & data pipelines, data warehouse, microservices & slice-dice Analytics UI for all products across PubMatic.
•	Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management organizations to establish and deliver the product road-map.
•	Manage overall software development lifecycle, provide leadership and ownership for process improvements, data-driven decision making and prioritization
•	Lead build vs. buy decisions, develop and maintain relationships with partner technology solution provider companies.

PubMatic

Sr. Director, Engineering, Big Data & Analytics

•	Developed the vision of platform as a service for a petabyte scale multi-tenant big data platform & lead the team to successfully deliver it.
•	Provided direction in design & architecture of  a highly configurable Spark framework that improved data processing efficiency, cost and time to marked significantly
•	Led the effort of evaluating & developing low latency real-time data processing pipeline using a GPU based database (Kinetica).

Director Of Technology

•	Lead the designed & implementation of multi-threaded consumer for AWS Kinesis along with custom ETL, for transferring more than 30TB of ad-server log data per day to S3 with extremely low fault tolerance. 
•	Lead the adoption of micro-services platform across the company, also worked on defining standards, evaluating frameworks and setting up best practices building highly-scalable & robust services. 
•	Lead the Design of PaaS for managing distributed micro-service deployments, scaling, service discovery & load balancing. 
•	Managed and supervised a team of software engineers and architects.
•	Designing and developing the software using SOA and Micro service philosophy, principles and patterns.
•	Conducting regular code reviews, pair programming, and design sessions to ensure code quality, reusability, and maintainability.
•	Implementing continuous development/ continuous deployment strategy using Github, Jenkins, and Docker.

Principal Architect

•	Lead the team to build a highly complex, configurable & robust ACL framework that provides security & access control for all services across the company.
•	Evaluated & lead integration with external API & developer management platform for exposing APIs to customers and partners. 
•	Acting as a principle contributor to technical feasibility studies, business cases proposals and third-party assessments.
•	Preparing detailed functional specifications, design models and system workflows from which software applications will be developed and implemented.
•	Supporting, troubleshooting and maintaining the production systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving problems and providing timely follow-up on identified issues.

Kunal Umrigar