Navin Kumar

Navin Kumar is a senior distributed systems engineer at NVIDIA, working on the Spark RAPIDS Accelerator team. He's the chief architect of Project Aether, a service for accelerating the migration process of Apache Spark jobs from CPU to GPU. Navin holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an M.S. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, he was the architect of a large-scale Apache Spark-based data pipeline at security startup Fletch (acquired by F5).
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Data Science Dec 17, 2025

Migrate Apache Spark Workloads to GPUs at Scale on Amazon EMR with Project Aether

Data is the fuel of modern business, but relying on older CPU-based Apache Spark pipelines introduces a heavy toll. They’re inherently slow, require large... 7 MIN READ