Distributed systems & data infrastructure

I design reliable execution systems for enterprise data platforms.

I'm a backend and distributed-systems engineer building enterprise data platforms, workflow execution systems, cloud and customer-managed runtimes, and healthcare software.

Salesforce Informatica Cerner

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A connected practice. A systems perspective.

Areas I work in

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Distributed systems

Execution, state, consistency, and intermittent connectivity.

Data infrastructure

Enterprise data integration and workflow execution platforms.

Reliability engineering

Failure semantics, observability, retries, and upgrades.

Engineering AI

Grounded, verified engineering and operations workflows.

A career in connected systems

  1. Healthcare systems

    Cerner

    Software Engineer I / II

    2017–2021

  2. Data integration platforms

    Informatica

    Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

    2021–2026

  3. Distributed execution

    Salesforce / Informatica R&D

    Member of Technical Staff

    March 2026–present

About Santosh Kumar

I work at the intersection of distributed execution, enterprise data infrastructure, and reliability—with a focus on systems that keep working through operational uncertainty.

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