Dublin, Ireland
English
Yash Kumar is a Dublin-based backend and platform engineer with 4+ years of experience shipping production cloud infrastructure across AWS and Microsoft Azure. He specializes in distributed services, deployment systems, secure control-plane infrastructure, multi-region rollouts, and live-site reliability.
Experience
Microsoft Azure - Azure Confidential LedgerApr 2025 - Present
Software Development Engineer 2- Led production-region and multi-region delivery for Azure services, including a four-region rollout completed with no customer impact.
- Improved control-plane security, reliability, and developer experience across production services and launch paths.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Software Development Engineer 2- Reduced worldwide customer faults by 91% by improving cross-service fault visibility and timeout behavior with dependent teams.
- Improved scalability and reliability across AWS deployment environments.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Sep 2022 - Mar 2024
Software Development Engineer- Built CloudWatch Metrics ingestion handling 5 million transactions per second and consolidating regional data into worldwide search.
- Delivered zero-downtime infrastructure migrations and automation that reduced issue investigation time from two hours to 25 minutes.
Sabre CorporationJan 2022 - Jul 2022
Software Development Engineer Intern- Supported migration of business travel services from on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud using Kubernetes and containerized deployments.
Education
Thapar Institute of Engineering and TechnologyBachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering | CGPA: 9.54/10.00 (Patiala, India | Aug 2018 - Jul 2022)
Awards & Achievements
AWS Cubes 2023Received 3 AWS Cubes in recognition of delivering significant cost optimizations and feature improvements across services.
University Gold MedalSecured 1st position in university during 2nd year, received Gold Medal and merit scholarship.
Inter-Society Coding CompetitionSecured 1st position in university-wide coding competition through Microsoft Learn Student Chapter.
Technical Skills
LanguagesJava, Python, Kotlin, TypeScript, C++, Go
Java
Python
Kotlin
TypeScript
C++
Go
Cloud & InfrastructureAWS Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, CDK; Azure AKS, Front Door, Application Gateway, WAF, Private Link
AWS CDK
CloudWatch
AWS Lambda
Azure AKS
Azure Front Door
WAF & Private Link
Distributed SystemsMicroservices, high-availability architecture, event-driven systems, metrics ingestion, multi-region services
High-Availability
Metrics Ingestion
Multi-Region Services
Event-Driven
DevOps & IaCKubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Bicep, Ev2, CI/CD pipelines, rollback alarms, infrastructure as code
Kubernetes
Terraform
Bicep
Docker
CI/CD
Data & ObservabilityMySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kusto, Geneva, Grafana, unit testing, integration testing, Locust load testing
Kusto
Geneva
Grafana
PostgreSQL
DynamoDB