Ashish Kumar, Engineering Manager, Google
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Prior to joining Google, Ashish was VP of Engineering at Agitar Software, a Sequoia and NEA backed company, that build automatic unit test generation products for Java, eventually acquired by McCabe Software in 2008. Previously Ashish was Director of Engineering at Sun Microsystems, responsible for leading the iPlanet and then SunOne Application and Web Servers. While at Sun, Ashish also seeded the original growth for Sun’s India Engineering Center in Bangalore, by hiring the first 100+ product engineering team for the iPlanet Application and Web Servers. Before managing the Application Server team, Ashish held several management and technical contributor roles in SunLabs (SunTest), and in the SMCC teams. Ashish has also co-founded two startups in the past. He has worked on developing software ranging from anti-virus software for the PC in the late 80s, kernel device drivers for tape jukeboxes, going all the way up the stack to application software for businesses.