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Arun Kumar

Senior Engineering Manager specializing in data-intensive SaaS, FinTech, and AgTech products

Farmers Business NetworkJohns Hopkins UniversitySan Francisco, CA13 Years ExperienceDirector LevelWorks On-Site

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Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.

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Key Strengths

  • Led a 15-engineer team delivering a self-serve structured commodities pricing tool to production
  • Deep experience designing resilient real-time data integrations (WebSocket with REST fallback)
  • Strong incident ownership: diagnosed vendor WebSocket resets at market close and implemented auto-detection/reconnect to prevent stale pricing
  • Drives cross-functional alignment via technical implementation plans, reducing misalignment and rework
  • Hands-on technical leadership while managing (POCs, triage, architecture decisions, PR reviews)
  • Quality-focused engineering practices (multi-reviewer PRs, testing/edge cases, performance checks)

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Experience

Senior Engineering ManagerFarmers Business Network · Apr 2022 – Oct 2025
Sr Engineering ManagerGranular · Sep 2019 – Apr 2022
Engineering ManagerDirect Commerce · May 2016 – Sep 2019
Sr Software EngineerSwitchfly · Aug 2014 – May 2016
Software EngineerBzzAgent · Oct 2012 – Aug 2014

Education

Johns Hopkins Universitymaster, Computer Science (2011)
Kurukshetra Universitybachelor, Electronics and Comm. (2007)

Languages

English

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