He began his career as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at GEC, Bhubaneswar, in May 2014. He has undergone industrial training at Bokaro Steel Limited and vocational training at Rourkela Steel Plant, both are the units of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. He also holds a Vocational CAD certification from the MSME Indo-Danish Tool Room (IDTR), Jamshedpur.

He has done M.Tech in Mechanical System Design from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, and earned his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha.

Mr. Kumar is currently pursuing his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as a part-time candidate in the Department of Applied Mechanics. 

He joined Jaypee Institute of Information Technology in August 2018 as an Assistant Professor (Grade-I) and a founding member of the Mechanical Engineering and Design Department, and is currently serving as an Assistant Professor (Grade-II) in the MED Department at the main campus of JIIT, Noida.