
Pankaj Kumar
Location
Zürich
Field of Study
Computer Science
Expertise
Realtime Distributed System, Analytics, Sessions, AI
About
ex-Google, ex-Amazon
Founder Founder Beseam · Full-timeBeseam · Full-time Aug 2025 - Present · 8 mosAug 2025 to Present · 8 mos Zurich, SwitzerlandZurich, Switzerland Revenue Intelligence for Commerce Core loop: Observe · Reason · Act · Learn 🤝 If you run Shopify stores or manage contact to get the free audit to know what might be leaking your revenue. 📥 If you are an Investor/partner/VC, please drop a message. Revenue Intelligence for Commerce Core loop: Observe · Reason · Act · Learn 🤝 If you run Shopify stores or manage contact to get the free audit to know what might be leaking your revenue. 📥 If you are an Investor/partner/VC, please drop a message. Stealth Startup logo Co-Founder Co-Founder Stealth Startup · Full-timeStealth Startup · Full-time Feb 2025 - Jan 2026 · 1 yrFeb 2025 to Jan 2026 · 1 yr Stay tuned... Stay tuned... Pyxi logo Founding Technical Lead Founding Technical Lead Pyxi · Part-timePyxi · Part-time May 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mosMay 2024 to Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos * Oversee the technical development, design infrastructure and system performance. * Maching algorithm and AI implementation. * Manage development teams and coordinate cross-functional efforts. * Drive technical strategy and innovation to support user experience. * Oversee the technical development, design infrastructure and system performance. * Maching algorithm and AI implementation. * Manage development teams and coordinate cross-functional efforts. * Drive technical strategy and innovation to support user experience. Co-Founder and CEO Co-Founder and CEO Co-Founder and CEO Fisca AI · Full-timeFisca AI · Full-time Jun 2024 - Jan 2025 · 8 mosJun 2024 to Jan 2025 · 8 mos Zurich, SwitzerlandZurich, Switzerland AI Medical coding and billing co-pilot Software Engineering Software Engineering GoogleGoogle Oct 2014 - Apr 2024 · 9 yrs 7 mosOct 2014 to Apr 2024 · 9 yrs 7 mos Zurich, SwitzerlandZurich, Switzerland Led a subteam within YouTube Data responsible for processing YouTube’s global traffic (world’s #2 largest), building large-scale infrastructure for log processing and annotation. Architected and led development of a highly scalable metadata–annotation merge system that processes over 10 PiB/day across streaming and batch pipelines, supporting 400M+ QPS lookups for A/B experiments, ML dataset generation, and analytics. Co-developed a high-performance distributed cache using RDMA-style remote memory access, reducing per-lookup latency from 200–500 µs in traditional memcache-based systems to a consistent ~10 µs, enabling ultra–low-latency, high-QPS metadata retrieval. Designed a cost-efficient mechanism for updating immutable datasets using a differential log-based model, reducing infrastructure costs by ~90%. Co-developed a streaming system to construct user sessions, cutting data delivery latency from 30+ hours to ~2 hours. Led implementation of a log-tailing platform enabling real-time and streaming operations at full YouTube scale. Improved correctness and reliability across pipelines responsible for attributing views to YouTube videos. Co-developed YouTube’s real-time view-count feature, reducing update latency from 2–4 hours to ~10 seconds. Led a subteam within YouTube Data responsible for processing YouTube’s global traffic (world’s #2 largest), building large-scale infrastructure for log processing and annotation. Architected and led development of a highly scalable metadata–annotation merge system that processes over 10 PiB/day across streaming and batch pipelines, supporting 400M+ QPS lookups for A/B experiments, ML dataset generation, and analytics. Co-developed a high-performance distributed cache using RDMA-style remote memory access, reducing per-lookup latency from 200–500 µs in traditional memcache-based systems to a consistent ~10 µs, enabling ultra–low-latency, high-QPS metadata retrieval. Designed a cost-efficient mechanism for updating immutable datasets using a differential log-based model, reducing infrastructure costs by ~90%. Co-developed a streaming system to construct user sessions, cutting data delivery latency from 30+ hours to ~2 hours. Led implementation of a log-tailing platform enabling real-time and streaming operations at full YouTube scale. Improved correctness and reliability across pipelines responsible for attributing views to YouTube videos. Co-developed YouTube’s real-time view-count feature, reducing update latency from 2–4 hours to ~10 seconds. Software Developement Engineer Software Developement Engineer AmazonAmazon Oct 2011 - Sep 2014 · 3 yrsOct 2011 to Sep 2014 · 3 yrs Greater Hyderabad AreaGreater Hyderabad Area Amazon Sort center * Involved in building Next Generation transportation systems. * Developed Scalable distributed Systems for manual and automated sortation of packages. * Developed various heuristics and services to intelligently handle packages processing, labor management and defect detection. * User various AWS systems. * Reduced cost of sorting packages by 500%.
Skills
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
C++
CSS
Data Analytics
Data Architects
Data Architecture
Distributed Systems
HTML
Java
Linux
Machine Learning
Ubuntu
Work Experience
Amazon
2011-03 - 2014-09
software Engineer
India
fulltime
2014-09 - 2024-04
software Engineer
Zürich
fulltime