Nirmal Kumawat🇮🇳

About Nirmal Kumawat

Software Engineering Lead at Airbnb, Atlassian, Adobe

Nirmal brings a decade of experience in the software industry, with expertise ranging from low-level systems to modern distributed cloud systems.

His notable achievements include:

Building a large-scale transactional data platform with AWS DynamoDB, handling approximately 1.3 billion requests daily. Developing AI/ML model-serving capabilities for real-time inference for production use-cases, including search infrastructure to enhance search relevance and aggregate search results from first- and third-party sources. Implementing a data-usage opt-out policy for Tecton ML feature engineering workspaces to prevent data misuse during model training and inference. Enhancing reliability by tenfold for large-scale bootstrap and real-time data processing pipelines between Jira Monolith and Analytics platform, resolving critical customer issues related to data quality and completeness while collaborating with over 20 stakeholders. Improving performance by 80% for cloud-fonts preview in font menu of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop through a smart caching mechanism. Delivering pioneering font features (such as Variable Fonts and Color Fonts) in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, directly benefiting millions of Adobe customers & driving revenue growth for Adobe.

Nirmal is proficient in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, the AWS cloud stack, SQL/NoSQL databases (including Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, Memcache, and S3), OLAP datastores, Apache Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, Flink, GitHub, Bitbucket, Spinnaker, Splunk, Docker, and other tools essential for developing modern distributed cloud systems.

He leads engineering teams with efficiency, delivering high-impact results at a fast pace without compromising on quality. Nirmal excels in architecting and designing both low- and high-level systems, building scalable microservices, managing operations, enhancing reliability and performance, and solving complex problems.

Nirmal has filed and published >20 US patents and research papers at various conferences including IEEE. He has also presented at prestigious events such as Adobe MAX-Sneak, Siggraph, Eurographics, Atypi, AWS user group meetups etc.

In addition to his professional work, Nirmal mentors junior engineers, guiding them in their software engineering careers through one-on-one sessions and blogs, all while managing his day-to-day responsibilities.

Nirmal has been awarded by REYA'2023 award (Recognizing Excellence in Young Alumni) by his Alma Mater, IIT Jodhpur for contributing towards technology innovation at Adobe.

Expertise

Sessions with Nirmal Kumawat

• Mentorship Session (30 min): Mentorship session

What mentees say

“Received a clear roadmap for a fresher to get into the IT industry. Discussed about the impact of AI on freshers and how to stay healthy in this competition as a fresher.”

“Nirmal has a very positive approach to teaching. He listens attentively to all my questions and takes the time to discuss each point individually, ensuring clarity. His patience and willingness to explain concepts thoroughly make learning much more effective.”

“The mentor session with Nirmal Sir was exceptional. He thoroughly addressed all of my questions regarding resume building and career guidance. He listened attentively and patiently, providing insightful and well-structured advice. I truly appreciate his guidance and expertise—he is an outstanding mentor.”