Srikanta Datta Prasad Tumkur
AI Infrastructure and Inference R&D. Silicon Valley Engineering Leader in Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity and AI/ML Systems.
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Overview
Srikanta Datta Prasad Tumkur (Member, Forbes Technology Council and IEEE) received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya 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, a Master of Science in Business and Innovation Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris in 2021, and a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 2024. He is currently enrolled in the Executive Program in General Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, USA (2026–2027).
He is currently Director of Engineering 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.
Sri’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.
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Professional Experience
- Director of Engineering, Coupang Global LLC, Mountain View, CALeading Global platform engineering and development, AI engineering and AI R&D, and distributed systems.
- Senior Technical Leader, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CAFocused on platform architecture and system design for Enterprise Networking and Collaboration solutions.
- Systems Architecture Engineer, Symphony, Palo Alto, CADeveloped solutions for collaboration platform for Fintech.
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle America Inc., Redwood City, CAWorked on Appliances, Bare-metal, Infrastructure layers for Cloud. Built scalable systems and distributed architectures.
Academic Experience
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Master of Science in Information Technology Carnegie Mellon University, USA · 2011–2012 Specialized in software, systems engineering and architecture. -
Executive Program in General Management MIT Sloan School of Management, USA · 2026–2027 Focus on AI and business; in progress. -
Master’s in Cybersecurity Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India · 2023–2024 Department of Computer Science and Engineering; focused on advanced cybersecurity and AI/ML integration. -
Executive Master of Science in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship HEC Paris, France · 2020–2021 Focused on business innovation strategies. -
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science and Engineering Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India · 2005–2009 Graduated with a focus on foundational information systems.
Certifications
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NVIDIA-Certified Associate: AI Infrastructure and Operations NVIDIA · Issued Dec 2025, valid through Dec 2027 · Verify on Credly
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) The Linux Foundation · Jan 2023–Jan 2026 · Verify on Credly
Media
All media coverage-
ForbesArticle
The Request-To-Silicon Gap: Why Leaders Cannot Explain What Their AI Really Costs
If you can’t trace a request to the silicon that served it, you aren’t operating AI infrastructure. You’re guessing.
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Mashable BeneluxFeature
De ingenieurs die de onzichtbare ruggengraat van AI bouwen: het perspectief van een directeur aan het GPU-front
The engineers building AI’s invisible backbone, seen from the GPU front: why AI companies succeed or fail on systems most users never see. In Dutch.
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Outlook IndiaInterview
Bridging the Gap Between AI Research and Real-World Security: An Interview With Srikanta Datta Tumkur
On moving AI security research into production, and building enterprise platforms at Oracle, Symphony, Cisco and Coupang.
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Research
All publications- More GPUs or a Smaller Cache? Tensor Parallelism versus KV Compression for Memory-Bound LLM Serving, arXiv preprint (2026)
- Explainable Multi-Modal Deep Learning Framework for Enhancing Cyber-Physical Systems Security, IEEE CSCloud (2025)
- Graph Neural Networks for Advanced Persistent Threat Detection, IEEE ICoCICs (2025)
- Optimizing Malware Detection in Virtual Cloud Environments Using Hybrid Machine Learning Approach, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Springer (2025)
- Six working papers on LLM serving, in preparation (2026)