Mukul Kumar is an accomplished technology leader with over 15 years of experience in the fintech and advertising industries. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Lucidworks, a software company that provides search-powered solutions to clients worldwide. Prior to this, he served as the CTO at PubMatic, a digital advertising technology company, where he played a key role in driving product innovation and growth. He has also held senior technical roles at various other companies including Yahoo, Chegg, and Kaplan. Kumar has extensive expertise in building and scaling large-scale distributed systems, machine learning algorithms, and data science. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, USA.