Ashish Kumar

SVP, Technical Fellow @ MongoDB

Fremont, California, United States

About

Accomplished engineering executive, with a knack for building and leading high performing engineering teams Specialties: Building products that delight users

Experience

  • Senior Vice President, Technical Fellow at MongoDB
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Co-Founder and CEO at Grainite
    2019 - 2023 · 4 yrs

    At Grainite we built the first transactional database that embedded native stream storage and highly parallel stream processing, all in one. Backed with Series A by Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures. Acquired by MongoDB.

  • Senior Engineering Director at Google
    2008 - 2019 · 11 yrs

    2016 - 2019: Led google-internal and google cloud structured storage teams including BigTable, Spanner, Datastore, Firestore, Census, Kansas (previously). Team launched external cloud products including Cloud Spanner, Cloud Firestore, and Open Census, and continued to grow and improve Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore. 2015 - 2016: Led hardware and software engineering teams for Google OnHub (http://google.com/onhub), Google WiFi (http://google.com/wifi) and Accelerator (https://www.youtube.com/yt/accelerator/). 2011 - 2015: Led engineering team for Dynamic Display Ads on both Doubleclick (http://goo.gl/esu2u) and Adwords (http://goo.gl/4Xs3u). Also responsible for the shared serving infrastructure for all of display ads, Privacy engineering, and Ads for Domains efforts. 2008 - 2011: Led and managed a world wide team of 150+ engineers responsible for developer tools at Google. We build our systems at never-seen-before scale and our goals are to get our tools simpler, faster and reliable.

  • Vice President, Engineering at Agitar Software, Inc.
    2004 - 2008 · 4 yrs

    Managed the entire product team for Agitar’s products, including Product Development, Quality, Docs, Support, and IT. Responsible for directing and managing the company’s award winning flagship products AgitarOne Agitator and AgitarOne Test Generator. Under my leadership, the products have won several awards including several Jolt awards, SD Times, Red Herring 100, Infoworld Technology of the Year award ...

  • Founder, CTO / VP Engineering at Cenergize
    2002 - 2004 · 2 yrs

    Conceived, Designed and Developed TaskMail 1.0, which adds collaborative and transactional capabilities to standard Email – including the ability to link Email to Enterprise Applications. Filed for 3 technology patents. Brought on senior management team, and developed the business plan along with the team. Presented the plan to several VCs and Customers and acquired initial customers for the TaskMail hosted service.