Kundan Kumar
Technology & Engineering Leader | AI for Productivity at Scale | Modern Architecture & Governance | Cloud Platforms • Reliability • Enterprise Scale
- Role
- Director - Engineering at Amadeus
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kundan Kumar
SUMMARYEngineering Director with 15+ years of experience leading global engineering teams (60+ members) across architecture, development, business analysis, and quality engineering. Proven expertise in Java ecosystem, middleware, microservices, and distributed systems with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and cloud transformation. Technical Leadership: Scaled cloud-native platforms for hospitality & airline domains, optimizing performance by 60%. System Architecture: Designed high-throughput messaging solutions (Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ) and ESB integrations for mission-critical systems. Operational Excellence: Delivered 99.95% uptime, reduced MTTR by 45%, and cut infrastructure costs by 30% through observability and cloud automation. People & Org Growth: Built and led high-performing teams, mentored engineering managers, and drove cross-functional collaboration.Leadership & Strategy:• Engineering Leadership | Agile & DevOps Transformation | Product Engineering | OKRs & KPIs• Team Growth & Hiring | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Org Scaling | Strategic Roadmap PlanningSoftware Architecture & Technologies:• Java Ecosystem: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Quarkus• Middleware & Messaging: Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, WebSockets• Enterprise Integration: ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), API Gateway (Actional, Apigee)• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (Jenkins, ArgoCD), Docker• Scalability & Resilience: Distributed Systems, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Circuit Breakers
Experience
Director - Engineering
Jul 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Education
BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes
Master of Technology - MTech, Data Science & Engineering
Edith Cowan University
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information System
2007 — 2009
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Post Graduate Diploma, Data Science
2017 — 2018
Skills
- Architecture
- Tableau
- Software Design
- Variable Data Printing
- Eai
- Business Analysis
- R
- Java
- Sql
- Tibco Businessworks
- Hibernate
- Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
- Businessworks
- Python
- Itext
- Tibco Business Studio
- Agile Methodologies
- Richfaces
- Data Science
- Soap
- Jndi
- Software Project Management
- Xml
- Esb
- Data Analysis
- Representational State Transfer (Rest)
- Big Data
- Requirements Analysis
- Tibco Ems
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Tibco Businessevents
- Solution Architecture
- Message Oriented Middleware
- Jms
- Javase
- Core Java
- Log4j
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Web Services
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