Srikanta Datta Prasad Tumkur
Silicon Valley Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity and AI/ML Systems.
Overview
Srikanta Datta Prasad Tumkur (Member, Forbes Technology Council and IEEE) received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from Visveswaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India, in 2009. He earned his Master of Science in Information Technology from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 2012, and a Master of Science in Business and Innovation Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris in 2021. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity from the Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
He is currently a Senior Staff Engineer (Technical Director) at Coupang Global LLC in Mountain View, California, where he leads platform engineering and development. His prior roles include Senior Technical Leader (Senior Manager level) at Cisco Systems, San Jose, California; Systems Architecture Engineer at the CTO team of Symphony, a collaboration startup in Palo Alto, California; and Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle America Inc., Redwood City, California.
Mr. Tumkur’s research interests include large-scale platform development, distributed systems, observability, cybersecurity, and AI/ML systems for cybersecurity. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
Professional Experience
Senior Staff Engineer (Technical Director), Coupang Global LLC, Mountain View, CA
Leading Global platform engineering and development.Senior Technical Leader, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
Focused on platform architecture and system design for Enterprise Networking and Collaboration solutions.Systems Architecture Engineer, Symphony, Palo Alto, CA
Developed solutions for collaboration platform for Fintech.Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle America Inc., Redwood City, CA
Worked on Appliances, Bare-metal, Infrastructure layers for Cloud. Built scalable systems and distributed architectures.
Academic Experience
Master of Science in Information Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (2012)
Specialized in software, systems engineering and architecture.Executive Master of Science in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, HEC Paris, France (2021), Focused on business innovation strategies.
Pursuing 3rd Master’s in Cybersecurity, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Focusing on advanced cybersecurity and AI/ML integration.Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology, VTU, Karnataka, India (2009)
Graduated with a focus on foundational Information systems.
