Abhishek Kumar — CEO

Hands-on technical engineering manager with 11+ years experience, including 6+ years as a people manager. At Google, I’ve driven $1B+ in revenue opportunities through large-scale cloud initiatives, led teams of 25+ engineers, and managed programs spanning 25+ global teams. Consistently rated among the highest-performing managers, with recognition for leadership, innovation, and cross-org delivery and earning top-tier annual and managerial performance ratings at Google. Before Google, I founded and scaled a profitable AI solutions company to $1M ARR and was named Top 16 InsurTech in the USA by CIAB. My leadership style blends design thinking, system design expertise, and a bias for building high-impact teams and products from the ground up. Core strengths: 1. Strategic Skills: Change Management, Strategic Roadmapping, Program Governance, Risk Management, Process Improvements, Stakeholder Management, OKRs. 2. Org Building Skills: Hiring, Building and Managing Teams, Retention, Career Growth, Coaching, Conflict Resolution, Inclusion, Cross-functional Alignment, Design Thinking, Organisational Development, Change Management. 3. Technical: System Design, AWS, PostgreSQL, A/B Testing, Software Design, Distributed Systems, Python, Microservices Architecture, CI/CD, Cloud Architecture, SLO Management, High Availability, NLP, AI/ML. 4. Product Skills: Product Roadmaps, Release Management, Customer Interactions, JIRA, Requirements Gathering, Agile. Outside of work: I’m a Top 30 writer in Management & Leadership in India (158K+ followers), and ranked #1 content creator in my niche (Mar 2025) as per Favikon rankings.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and AI Solutions expert with strong leadership in technical management.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 11 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Change Management
System Design
Cloud Architecture
Product Roadmaps
Agile
Ai Solutions
Team Building
Data Governance
Team Management
Data Quality

Career Highlights

Drove $1B+ revenue opportunities at Google.
Founded a profitable AI solutions company.
Top-rated manager with outstanding performance ratings.

Work Experience

Google

Engineering Manager - AI and Computing Infrastructure (3 yrs 6 mos)

Flipkart

Tech Lead - User Acquisition and Retention (4 mos)

Sumyag Data Sciences

Partner - Co Founder (4 yrs 2 mos)

@WalmartLabs India

Senior Software Engineer - Data Governance (1 yr 1 mo)

AIG

Associate Programmer Analyst - Data Quality & Governance (2 yrs 1 mo)

Education

Other at Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology

at Shri I.B. Patel Angel Sr. Sec. Schoold

at Nazareth Academy

Abhishek Kumar

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 2 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Drove $1B+ revenue opportunities at Google.
Founded a profitable AI solutions company.
Top-rated manager with outstanding performance ratings.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and AI Solutions expert with strong leadership in technical management.

Contact

abhishek.kumar17@walmart.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Change ManagementSystem DesignCloud ArchitectureProduct RoadmapsAgileAi SolutionsTeam BuildingData GovernanceTeam ManagementData Quality

Other Skills

A/B TestingAI/MLAWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Business Model CanvasBusiness ModelingCI/CDCareer GuidanceCommunicationConversational AICritical ThinkingCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresDistributed Systems

About

Experience

Google

Engineering Manager - AI and Computing Infrastructure

Apr 2022 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

1. Single-Threaded Leader for FastCloud (FCCY) with CEO visibility, led end-to-end delivery across 25+ global teams, owning delivery of 2 services directly. Reduce latency by 85% and realised $1B+ revenue opportunities for all datacenter.
2. Led Change Management across reorgs and drove alignment at VP level, and maintained attrition rate to less than 10% as compared to 30% attrition in peer teams, and delivered multi-year FCCY program on schedule.
3. Established Capacity Planning process, conceptualized and built order-validation tooling, mitigating 40% of recurring delivery risks and improving p95 SLO coverage from 58% to 100% since Nov 2024.
4. Architected and delivered GDPR compliance Data Center TurnUp for TPC Cloud-level OKR, enabling $100B+ European market access (TAM). Improving reliability from ~90% to 99.9%, shifting to plug-and-play architecture, re-using existing components.
5. Conducted 150+ interviews in 2.5 years. Led 14+ Hiring Committees (HCs) at Google, made unbiased hire/no hire decision based on interview feedback.
6. Developed leadership talent by mentoring 30+ engineers (L3/L4), coached 3 first-time manager.
7. Awarded Outstanding rating in 2024 (top 18%), rated Excellent Manager (4.95/5) across all dimensions: Deliver Results, Develop People, Build Community. Enabled 5 promotions over 3 years.

Change ManagementStrategic RoadmappingProgram GovernanceRisk ManagementProcess ImprovementsStakeholder Management+15

Flipkart

Tech Lead - User Acquisition and Retention

Dec 2021 – Apr 2022 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

During my 5-month tenure as a leader of the conversational chat assistant platform, I achieved the following:
1. Unified 13 engineers from two teams into a high-performing Conversational Assistant unit, doubling sprint throughput in the first quarter, and accelerated project timelines.
2. Increased product adoption by 500% through 13 targeted A/B tests, and developed the 2022 strategic roadmap to achieve 10x growth in user adoption.

A/B TestingAgileTeam LeadershipPythonConversational AIProduct Roadmaps

Sumyag data sciences

Partner - Co Founder

Oct 2017 – Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

1. Founded and scaled an AI solutions company, managing 35 active client accounts and generating $1M annual revenue with $198K profit in 2020.
2. Redesigned core architecture for distributed computing and parallel processing, cutting onboarding from 12 to 3 weeks and adding 20+ clients. Created product roadmap for ExdionPOD, growing customer base from 4 to 15.
3. Hired and led a 22-member cross-functional team across engineering, data science, and product, overseeing delivery from ideation to launch. Named Top 16 InsurTech in USA by the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers (CIAB).

AI SolutionsTeam BuildingProduct RoadmapDistributed Systems

@walmartlabs india

Senior Software Engineer - Data Governance

Aug 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

1. Established the Collibra development team in India by collaborating with the Director of Data Governance on a 12-month product roadmap.
2. Recruited and managed a 15-member global team to deliver REST services integrating Collibra with internal systems, improving data accuracy from 67% to 95% and achieving a 5/5 customer satisfaction score in all deployments.

Data GovernanceTeam ManagementREST Services

Aig

Associate Programmer Analyst - Data Quality & Governance

Jun 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

1. Ranked 6th in global Collibra Experts leaderboard 2015-16 (ranked above Collibra product developers).
2. Generated Business Glossary and Issue Management system in Collibra, improving Data Governance policy adherence by 70%.

Data QualityData Governance