Gautam Kumar
Distributed Systems & Networking · Infrastructure for Large-Scale AI
A decade at Google building datacenter networking and distributed systems across millions of servers. I take ideas from research to production: Swift, Firefly/Sundial and Aequitas underpin Google's storage, search and AI/ML infrastructure. Each was designed, rolled out fleet-wide, published at SIGCOMM, OSDI or NSDI, and patented.
10 years at Google, 2016 to 2026 · 25+ peer-reviewed papers · 10+ patents filed, 5+ granted · Best Paper, ACM SIGCOMM 2020.
Work · Google, 2016 to 2026
Software Engineer to Staff Software Engineer · Tech Lead & Infrastructure Architect · Mountain View / Sunnyvale
Earlier research and engineering
- Rubrik and Microsoft Research: research internships on backend fault tolerance and network-traffic classification via switch QoS.
- UC Berkeley: graduate student researcher in network performance isolation and congestion control.
- Bell Labs, EPFL, IBM Research India: base-station processing, BGP stability and VM migration.
Selected publications
25+ peer-reviewed publications in top systems venues. Full list on Google Scholar.
Selected patents
Recognized under Google's Patent Recognition Program: 10+ filed, 5+ granted.
Awards
Education
- University of California, BerkeleyM.S. in Computer Science
- Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurB.Tech. in Computer Science · Valedictorian
Expertise
Datacenter and AI/ML cluster networking, congestion control and reliable transport, RDMA, distributed clock synchronization, host and kernel networking, SDN, multi-tenant isolation, large-scale distributed systems.
Contact
The best way to reach me is email: gautamk@outlook.com.
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