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Varun Kumar

Everything about automotive and cloud, growing career in India and Germany

Varun Kumar - iknowly Consultant

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Sr. Applied AI Solutions Architect at Amazon.de GmbH

Master in Embedded Software Systems at TUK

15+ years experience

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About me

iknowly mentor since Oct 2025

I was professionally born in the automotive industry, building Software, ECUs, and Semiconductors. In recent years my focus is to set strategies and innovation to bridge divide between large distributed systems to realtime safety critical systems, IT and OT, waterfall to agile, engineer and executive alike. I hail from a small village in northern India, and worked in German companies, or in Germany for last 20 years, and successfully navigated multiple career pivots to keep on learning and leading. I have seen engineering, organisational, mid to senior level managerial challenges first hand. Beyond love for engineering, i like to explore common ground between easter and western philosophies.

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What I Can Help You With?

Career Planning

I can act as sounding board for a specific career decision. I can advice on technical ladder, and senior to mid level management career paths.

Career Transition Coaching

I have successfuly gone through couple of career transitions, i can help with mindset and attitude approaches and specific advice in industries i have been.

Certification Guidance

Cloud and Automotive certs.

Interview Coaching

I can help in prepration of interviews for FAANG companies, and also traditional german/europeon companies.

Resume Review

Being and interviewer myself, i can help make resume data driven, and impactful.

Skills

Automotive EngineeringTeam LeadershipTechnology EvangelismInnovation ManagementSemiconductors

Work experience

2022/06 - Present

Sr. Applied AI Solutions Architect Amazon.de GmbHMunich, Germany

AWS

Education

2015/08 - 2017/09

Masters DegreeTUK Master in Embedded Software SystemsKaiserslautern, Germany

2001/08 - 2005/04

Bachelors DegreeMadan Mohan Malaviya Tech University BTech - Electronics and CommunicationGorakhpur, India