About Vivek Kaushal

I am a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience specializing in ML data infrastructure. I have a proven track record of leading high-impact ...

Vivek Kaushal's Work History
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Senior Staff Engineer

Grammarly
Jan 2023 - Present
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Senior Software Engineer

Netflix
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Led the architecture and development of a data store that supports tens of petabytes of data, central to Netflix’s ML pipelines, including all recommendation systems. Ensured the platform’s scalability and long-term viability by adopting best practices in data engineering and infrastructure design. Drove strategic initiatives to optimize the platform, focusing on logging, ETL, query performance, observability, and debuggability. These efforts reduced operational overhead and enhanced the platform's reliability. Provided leadership in requirement gathering, design, implementation, and maintenance, ensuring that the platform met both immediate business needs and future scalability requirements. Mentored and led a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative environment where innovative solutions were encouraged, and technical debt was minimized. Guided the team through complex challenges, balancing the need for quick resolutions with long-term architectural integrity. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including ML Engineering and Data Science, to ensure that the platform’s design aligned with the company’s strategic goals and could support future use cases without requiring major overhauls.
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Senior Software Engineer

Apple
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Led the development and implementation of data pipelines for the lane guidance feature in Apple Maps, ensuring the system was built to scale and support future enhancements without significant rework. Initiated and championed the creation of standard libraries used across multiple teams, promoting consistency, reducing redundancy, and ensuring long-term maintainability of the platform. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, to ensure alignment on technical strategies and to deliver a product that met both current and future needs.
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Senior Software Engineer

Sumo Logic
Jan 2012 - Jan 2015
• Led the design and development of app platform → creation of apps with versioning capabilities → migrating database interactions from anorm to slick → moving app related code to its own assembly → performance improvements via design changes • Mentored new joinees and an intern for → programming skills and learning scala → company specific components • Removed performance bottlenecks to send new user signup emails 100x faster • Design, development and integration of → Self service account upgrading via credit card → Load based customer partitioning → SAML → Pagerduty google groups sync
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Software Development Engineer at AWS

Amazon Com
Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
• Development of → Recovery volumes → Hot restart → Memory leak detection process using guard pages → Log scanner to scan more than 15 percent servers everyday and report findings → Application for testing server process on desktop • Took initiative to set up more than one petabyte testing environment. Lead the game-day test on this environment to uncover race conditions and load based bugs • Eased testing by allowing multiple copies of server to run in the same process • Deployed major release across thousands of servers
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Research Assistant

Penn State University
Jan 2009 - Jan 2011
• Simulated components in light armored vehicles • Through simulations proposed solutions to increase the effectiveness of missions undertaken by US marines • Developed tools to help translate qualitative data to quantitative data for war scenario • Added features and maintained tool used for comparing qualitative data models
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Software Engineer

Stmicroelectronics
Jan 2007 - Jan 2009
• Independently handled bootrom related activities (from customer interaction, development, validation to on chip verification) • Group expert for flash memories • Developed device drivers for NAND, RTC, I2S and GPIO • Developed applications for Bluetooth and Fax • Benchmarked spear chip
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Vivek Kaushal's Expertise
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I am a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience specializing in ML data infrastructure. I have a proven track record of leading high-impact teams and architecting large-scale systems that handle tens of petabytes of data. My expertise lies in designing comprehensive data and ML platforms from the ground up, with a focus on long-term scalability, performance, and customer-centric solutions. I excel in providing strategic, actionable advice across a broad spectrum of technical and organizational challenges. Whether guiding teams through complex design decisions or troubleshooting systemic issues, I bring a deep understanding of both the technical and human aspects of engineering. I am particularly skilled at identifying and fixing broken systems, ensuring they are robust and resilient to future challenges. My experience spans both fast-paced environments that require immediate solutions and settings where thoughtful, long-term planning is possible. My leadership style is rooted in collaboration and a strong sense of ownership. I am adept at working with cross-functional teams, understanding their unique challenges, and helping them deliver high-quality solutions. My goal is to drive innovation while relentlessly focusing on designing systems that minimize the need for disruptive migrations and ensure sustained success.
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ML Platform - Data | Netflix, Apple, Amazon | Spark, Scala, Iceberg
Vivek Kaushal's Current Industry
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Grammarly
Vivek Kaushal's Prior Industry
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Stmicroelectronics | Penn State University | Amazon Com | Sumo Logic | Apple | Netflix | Grammarly
Vivek Kaushal's Education
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Penn State University

Penn State University Ms , Computer Science
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Dav college, Chandigarh

Dav college, Chandigarh Aissce , General
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Punjab Engineering College

Punjab Engineering College Be , Computer Science And Engineering
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Bhavan Vidyalaya

Bhavan Vidyalaya Aissce
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Stanford University

Stanford University Continuing Studies

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