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Rohit Kumar

Rohit Kumar

Data engineer focused on big-data analytics and systems

San Jose, California
reval
Los Angeles, California
rocketreach
Joined May 2026
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Experienced data and backend engineer who has built large-scale analytics platforms and ingestion/orchestration stacks (Spark, Airflow, Kafka) serving very large user bases and internal non-technical consumers. reval
Delivered data-serving systems and tooling (Athena/S3-backed segmentation APIs, schema governance, data quality checks) and worked on projects that reduced operational validation effort significantly using GenAI-based tooling. reval
Active in systems research and engineering: contributed to virtualization/memory-management work presented at KVM Forum 2024 while affiliated with Nutanix. pretalx+1
Engaged with academia through multiple instructional roles at USC (graduate teaching assistant, course grader, teaching assistant) and supporting seminars at USC Gould School of Law. rocketreach

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UserfaultFD-based Memory Overcommitment

January 1, 2024

Paper/talk describing a custom memory manager leveraging userfaultFD as an external memory backend for QEMU to improve VM memory management, swapping performance, and live migration by using a lightweight, multi-level swap hierarchy.

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