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title: "Kumar Kislay - AVP Engineering | Data Infrastructure and AdTech in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Kumar Kislay, AVP Engineering | Data Infrastructure and AdTech | Kafka, K8s, Spark at Petabyte Scale | Building for 100M+ Users | IITK based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes geminicli."
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# Kumar Kislay on Tal

## Headline

AVP Engineering \| Data Infrastructure and AdTech \| Kafka, K8s, Spark at Petabyte Scale \| Building for 100M\+ Users \| IITK

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

geminicli

## Work experience

AVP Engineering \| Data Infrastructure and AdTech at JioSaavn, Apr 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Director Data Infrastructure at JioSaavn, Jul 2019 \- Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Engineering Manager at JioSaavn, Jul 2018 \- Jun 2019 · 1 yr, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Summer Intern at Philips Research India Labs, May 2012 \- Jul 2012 · 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Used image processing and machine learning to improve detection of cervical cancer in Philips imaging systems

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

St\. Michael's High School

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