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Mukesh Kumar

Director of Engineering

Bangalore, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in delivering complex software projects.
  • Expert in building and motivating high-performance teams.
  • Strong leadership skills with a focus on coaching and mentoring.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack leader in Fintech with extensive experience in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementTeam ManagementAgile MethodologiesJavaRestful Web Service ApiWeb Services

Other Skills

CassandraCoachingCoaching & MentoringCore JavaDatabasesDistributed SystemsDrive ChangeDropwizardEmotional IntelligenceHBaseHibernateHigh Performance TeamsJ2EEJAXBJSON

About

As a dedicated and passionate leader with 15 years of experience, I have a proven track record of success in designing and delivering complex software projects. I excel in inspiring, building and motivating teams, fostering clarity, hiring top talent, providing coaching, and cultivating a high-performance culture. With strong problem-solving abilities, leadership skills, product development expertise, and effective coordination with stakeholders, I aim to leverage my leadership skills and technical knowledge to drive organizational success and empower individuals for their growth.

Experience

12 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Navi

Director of Engineering

May 2024Present · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Leading the Lending charter at Navi, I oversee multiple teams, including Cash Loan, Underwriting, Home Loan, KYC, LMS, and more. I’m responsible and accountable for all deliverables, quality, architecture, system stability, prioritisation, hiring, team development, long-term strategy, process simplification, and driving business growth.
Engineering ManagementHigh Performance TeamsStrategic ThinkingDrive ChangePeople growthEmotional Intelligence+6

Flipkart

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • 1. Leading three teams with a total headcount of 25 engineers.
  • 2. Ownership of some of the most critical services in Flipkart.
  • 3. Fostering the culture of openness, learning, sharing, customer focused, risk taking and growth.
  • 4. Participating actively in recruiting and creating long term vision of the team.
Engineering ManagementTeam ManagementCoachingStakeholder Management

Engineering Manager

Oct 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • 1. Leading a team of 17 engineers who completely owns the Customer Experience Tech in Flipkart.
  • 2. I am thriving as a mentor, coach, technology leader and setting up the growth path of people.
  • 3. A key stakeholder in the OKR planning, estimation, drawing the cutline and prioritisation of the product and tech driven initiatives.
Engineering ManagementTeam ManagementCoachingStakeholder Management

SDE IV (Tech Lead)

Apr 2019Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • 1. Managing a team of 5 Software Engineers and leading a team of 12 software engineers as a Tech lead and Scrum Master.
  • 2. As a scrum master I have added following values to the team: increased sprint velocity of the team, better stakeholder management, reduced burden on developers to get clarity on tasks, regular sprint retrospection, backlog grooming and sprint planning.
  • 3. Playing a pivotal role in the product discussions, okr planning, task assignment, prioritisation and growth plan of the team.
  • 4. I hold the responsibility of the code quality, modularity, extensibility, uptime and resource allocation within the team.
  • 5. Recruit and mentor software engineers.
Agile MethodologiesScrumTeam ManagementCoachingStakeholder Management

Looksmart

Senior Software Development Engineer

Aug 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • I was handling complete ad serving and analytics of Looksmart. I took the transition of the entire engineering of Looksmart from the US team and then I expanded the team in India.

Syncapse

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2011Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • I have been working on server side programming in java and Scala. My work at Syncapse includes design and implementation of business logic and expose them via RESTful Web Service API. Following are the high level description of my work in Syncapse.
  • Designed and developed a dynamic query framework for column based database which can fetch data from any number of tables depending upon particular request. It also has sorting. aggregation and filtering capability.
  • Learned Scala and its functional programming features which was later used in another project.
  • Integrated Ads platform with Shiro and Hazelcast based authentication and authorization mechanism.
  • Written a maven plugin to generate java source file from a json file containing meta definitions.
  • Developed one of the most dynamic reporting framework using jasperreports, it has capability to generate a report either in pdf or excel with any number of nested subreports inside main report.
  • Implemented scheduling functionality for reporting and analytics job using Quartz
  • Implemented Single Sign-On (SSO) which is used by our various products.
  • At Syncapse I have gained experience in Quartz, Scala, Shiro, Hazelcast, Jasperreports, Spring Framework, JSON, Hbase, SSO and general design principles.
JavaScalaRESTful Web Service APIJasperreportsJSON

One97 communications ltd.

Software Engineer

Jun 2009Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • I have been part of various projects, my role includes Design, Development and Technology evaluation. I have worked on following technologies:
  • Core Java, J2EE, Spring framework, Hibernate, Struts 2.x, Jquery, Web Services, JAX-WS, JAXB
Core JavaJ2EESpring frameworkHibernateStruts 2.xWeb Services+1

Magma design automation

Software Trainee

May 2007Jul 2007 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed an application to visualize different semi-conductor layers in a chip design using Java Swing and Tcl. Chip description is stored in a file with predefined format on server. Data from this file is converted to xml and transported to client machine for drawing.
JavaCore Java

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

B.Tech — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2009

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