Jatin Kumar

Engineering Leadership | Data & AI | Scaling ML Platforms, Real-time Data Products & GenAI | Built Data Lakes & AI Infra | Careem (Uber) | Ex - Expedia | UAE Golden Visa Holder

Role
Engineering Leadership Data & Ai Scaling Ml Platforms, Real-time Data Products & Genai at Careem
Location
Gurugram, HR, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Jatin Kumar

I am a Data and AI engineering leader passionate about designing and scaling high-performance, resilient, and real-time data platforms. With deep expertise in big data, machine learning, MLOps, and cloud infrastructure, I thrive on solving complex data challenges and driving AI innovation. My work has enabled real-time insights, automation, and cost optimizations at scale, benefiting business operations and decision-making.

Experience

  1. Engineering Leadership Data & Ai Scaling Ml Platforms, Real-time Data Products & Genai

    Careem

    Jul 2022 — Present · Dubai, AE

    Data Experience Highlights1. As part Architecture Review Board devised a Careem level services disaster recovery plan. Enhanceddisaster recovery, eliminating single points of failure and re-architecting multi-tenant deployments.2. Reduced MTTA/R as On-Call Incident commander for Careem across Middle east. Mentored senior engineers to refine their strong skills while addressing growth area3. Created Real-Time Metrics Platform: Enabled live demand and supply monitoring to optimize Careem Transport’s operations.4. Built & Maintained Kafka Platform: Managed Kafka for four years with zero downtime, then successfully transitioned ownership to the infrastructure team, leveraging deep Kafka internals expertise.Machine Learning Experience:1. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with product, engineering, and analytics teams to define ML project goals, roadmaps, and success metrics, ensuring smooth integration into production environments.2. MLOps Best Practices: Designed and implemented robust pipelines for model deployment, monitoring, and automation. Collaborated with AWS service teams to optimize SageMaker for governance, cost efficiency, and scalability.3. Feature Store Development: Created a centralized feature store to accelerate model training and streamline data access for data scientists.Generative AI:1. Text-to-SQL Framework: Built a Generative AI-powered solution that converts natural language queries into SQL, boosting analysts’ productivity by 40%.2.AI-Driven Customer Care Automation Platform: Automated resolution for 35–45% of incoming tickets, reducing manual workload, Reduced average response time by 50%+, Lowered operational support costs by ~25% without impacting CSAT.3. AI Conversational Discovery Platform: Reduced search latency by 30%, improving session completion rates, Increased recommendation relevance leading to 15–20% higher engagement on suggested results,Reduced drop-offs during discovery flow by ~18% through conversational UX.

Education

  • Ymca university of science and technology

    B.tech, Information Technology

    2008 — 2012

  • XLRI Jamshedpur

    Master's degree, Buisness Management

    2016 — 2017

Skills

  • Oracle Warehouse Builder
  • Sql
  • Business Intelligence
  • Hive
  • Oozie
  • Flume
  • Sqoop
  • Teradata
  • Data Warehousing
  • Pl/Sql
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
  • Apache Kafka
  • Informatica
  • Hadoop
  • Amazon Web Services (Aws)
  • Obiee
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Oracle
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Shell Scripting
  • Unix
  • Oracle Database
  • Bi Publisher
  • Hbase
  • Apache Spark

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