# Arun Kumar

> SDE II at Amazon | Ex - Microsoft, Nutanix | IIT Guwahati

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/arunkumar1

SDE II at Amazon London.

Previously worked as a Member of Technical Staff - 3 in the AHV R&D team at Nutanix, and as a Software Engineer 2 in the Azure E+P team at Microsoft IDC.

Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Technology - BTech focused in Mathematics and Computing from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Passionate about solving complex technical problems, learning continuously and building impactful products.

## Work Experience
### SDE II @ Amazon
Jan 2025 – Present | London, England, United Kingdom
Amazon Ads

• Building scalable advertising campaign lifecycle management platform to streamline and automate operations for campaign solution teams globally.
• Took ownership of a legacy lead generation service supporting multiple business teams; reduced codebase by 45%, executed JDK migration, and enabled international expansion unlocking new revenue opportunities, while significantly improving maintainability and security posture.

### Member of Technical Staff - 3 @ Nutanix
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Worked in Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) R&D team on multiple cluster-aware distributed control plane services for VM management.

### Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Azure Edge + Platform (E+P) team

• Drove critical brownfield upgrade feature for Azure Stack HCI (22H2 to 23H2), coordinating across device, portal, and service teams.
• Improved at-scale update functionality for Azure Stack HCI devices through enhanced telemetry, dashboards, and continuous integration testing.

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Azure Edge + Platform (E+P) team

• Built an Azure service from the ground up and launched to public preview in 6 months, designing scalable event processing architecture using Azure Event Hubs and Azure Resource Graph to provide unified monitoring of connectivity and update status across multiple edge resource types.
• Enhanced Azure Stack Edge service by migrating 800+ device orders to Azure Edge Hardware Center across multiple clouds (reducing incidents by 90%) and implementing producer-consumer infrastructure using Azure Storage Queues for HouseKeeping Tasks, significantly improving processing speed and load distribution.
• Delivered multiple POCs for Azure Stack HCI that shaped service roadmaps and infrastructure development.
• Filed a patent for a near real-time event data reporting system for edge computing devices.

### Software Engineer Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Mathematics and Computing
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

### Class 12 in PCM and Computer Science
Ram-eesh International School

### Class 10
Ram-eesh International School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arun-kumar-ak17

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Last updated: 2026-04-05