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title: "Shubham Kumar - Member of Technical Staff in Delhi | Tal"
description: "Meet Shubham Kumar, Building Distributed Systems & Reliable Infrastructure @ Harvey | Ex - Databricks based in Delhi. AI stack includes antigravity, codex, and cursor. Explore public work links including github."
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# Shubham Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Building Distributed Systems & Reliable Infrastructure @ Harvey \| Ex \- Databricks

## About

I am usually more interested in how systems fail than how they work, that’s where most of the engineering is\. Senior platform engineer with 5 years building distributed systems and control planes\. Founding engineer of Oxide at Databricks, where I worked on database lifecycle management, durability, and authorization systems across 1000s of resources in 50\+ regions\. Ex\-Sprinklr\.

## Location

Delhi

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Member of Technical Staff at Harvey, Jul 2026 \- Present · 2 mos

Software Engineer II at Databricks, Dec 2023 \- Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Founding engineer of Oxide, Databricks’ control plane for database lifecycle management \(provisioning, scaling, backup, restore, migration\)\. Led design and development of core systems including Temporal\-based workflow orchestration, distributed tracing, and a policy\-based authorization system \(RBAC \+ ABAC\) — enabling self\-serve operations across 1000s of resources in 50\+ regions for 10\+ teams\. • Served as a DRI for Storage Durability across TiDB and MySQL\. Designed a unified KPI framework \(RPO, RTO, backup compliance\), automated restore validation pipelines across hundreds of databases, and drove data\-driven SLOs that moved durability posture from 70% to consistently green with zero customer\-visible data loss incidents\. • Envisioned and buit the Oxide Admin Console \(Azure Database Portal equivalent for Databricks\) from zero — defined the north star vision, prioritized CUJs, drove cross\-team alignment and adoption; consolidated 5\+ fragmented tools into a single production critical ops UI, reducing debugging time from ∼ 45 minutes to less than 5 minutes\. • Won multiple internal hackathons \(including Judges’ Choice, FY Q3 2025\), with solutions adopted by 500\+ engineers\.

Senior Product Engineer at Sprinklr, Jul 2023 \- Dec 2023 · 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Leading and spearheading two significant projects: Media Monitoring Analytics, facilitating brand analysis from news, blogs, and print sources, and Sprinklr Newsletters, helping PR and communication teams to share messages, top news and insights across team members\. • Actively engaged in supervising engineers, designing architectures, code reviews, & mentoring interns\.

Product Engineer at Sprinklr, Jun 2021 \- Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Owned 3 major products in Research Team \- Media Monitoring Analytics, Sprinklr Newsletters, and Manual article ingestion\. Played a key role in designing, implementing, and improving them for various business\-critical applications\. Also simplified integration for Restricted messaging channels like Dow Jones Factiva\. • Worked on over 150 tasks, including adding features, solving bugs & issues and added patches on existing elasticsearch\-core, elasticsearch\-plugins & lucene\-core jars\. • Added caching strategy for an Elasticsearch cluster and optimized queries, resulting in search results that were 64% faster and a 22% reduction in server load\. • Proficient in On\-call support, debugging slowness, lags & high\-loads\. • Revamped architecture for long\-running platform tasks, achieving a ∼0% failure rate by implementing various distributed system concepts such as heartbeats\.

Product Engineering Intern at Sprinklr, May 2020 \- Jun 2020 · 2 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India, • Deployed a JSON MockServer for the front end team with support for persistence, schema checks, and regular expressions in URL, configured with a Slackbot\. Written over 3500\+ lines of code from start, with a beautiful Technical document\. • Shipped a Shareable Link Preview Generator with a Chrome Extension to make any link shareable with previews in them to display, when shared across any social media channel\.

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Delhi College of Engineering

Intermediate Degree, Science with C\+\+, MDH International School

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/shubhamk0027

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