Summary
Atul Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments, driving Platform Engineering initiatives to scale, harden, and modernize core brokerage and authorization systems. He specializes in high-performance, low-latency distributed systems and brings enterprise-grade engineering mindset from roles at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and startups. His tech focus spans Micronaut and Spring Boot microservices, Aerospike and Open Policy Agent, with CI/CD (Jenkins, Argo, Terraform), containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tooling (Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry). He is passionate about sub-second transaction processing, resilience through chaos engineering, and building foundational platforms that enable enterprise success. Based in Bengaluru, India, with nine years of experience, he holds a B.Tech in Information Technology from Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology under Biju Pattnaik University of Technology and mentors teams to translate complex requirements into robust solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, High School, Science at Chinmaya Vidyalaya
B. Tech, Information Technology, B. Tech, Information Technology at Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Biju Pattnaik University of Technology
Hindi, English