Prashant Kumar

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 18 years of experience in FinTech and E-Commerce.
  • Led engineering for key technology clusters at Flipkart.
  • Frequent global speaker on machine learning and customer experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and E-Commerce technology leader with extensive experience in scalable systems.

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AJAXAgile MethodologiesAndroMDAAntBig DataCCVSData AnalyticsDevOpsGitHBaseHDFSHTMLHadoopHibernate

About

1. Innovating in Credit on UPI at the intersection of Credit, Commerce & Payments. 2. Technology leader with over 18 years of experience in building tech driven scalable eco-systems into domains encompassing FinTech, E-Commerce (B2B/B2C), Advertisement & Big Data Analytics. 3. At Flipkart, have lead and matured a range of technology clusters including Flipkart Wholesale, Advertisement, Search, Recommendations, Loyalty, Merchandising, Customer Service (CX), Digital Marketing, Personalisation and CRM with deep focus on ML and distributed computing. 4. Have lead technology creation across B2C, B2B and enterprise ecosystems. Defined strategy and tech platforms, incubated functional groups, lead geographically segregated teams, managed external units and handled merger and acquisitions. 5. Frequent technology speaker around the globe ; focussing on data driven systemic intelligence, machine learning, customer care, consumer experience and online retail in general.

Experience

Kredit.pe

Founder & CeO

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Miles to cover...

Protonn

Head of Engineering

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Creator Economy, Interactive Videos .. SaaS for Independent Professionals!

Flipkart

4 roles

Head of Engineering, Flipkart Wholesale

Nov 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Engineering Flipkart's journey into B2B E-Commerce!

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2017Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Led Engineering for key charters of Advertisement(Display, Product Listings and Video Ads), Search, Recommendations, Loyalty(Flipkart Plus and Coin Ecosystem), Merchandising, CRM and Digital Marketing.
  • Envisioned and led the creation of an unified demand generation platform via global optimisations across demand-supply tenets with systemic leverage of data and ML through visibly incoherent customer touch points.

Director of Engineering

Jan 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Enabled tech driven superior post order customer experience at Flipkart with a host of moonshots along the way, and scaled it to the needs of millions of customers.
  • Key focus areas included omnichannel CRM, mutating IVRs, troubleshooting search, ticketing, intuitive self service, intelligent diallers, IT services and unstructured data processing to tap voice of customers.

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Abundance of gratifying work at Flipkart - streamlined customer support, self serve, IVR, social sentiment analytics and dribbled with ML on unstructured content.
  • Previously created and scaled up online marketing verticals, communications platform and user insights enabling cross-functional personalized experience.

Syncapse

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • 1. Sole accountability for managing all data being processed at Syncapse for its search, social, analytics and event tracking applications.
  • 2. Responsible for conception and development of big data processing and analytics engine on HDFS, Hive & Oozie.
  • 3. Managed the data access layer built on HBase and MySQL for Syncapse’s real time flagship Pro product.

Peoplefluent

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Jun 2010Apr 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • 1. Solely accountable for three of the Peoplefluent Inc.'s products - 'TM Recruiting', 'Candidate Portal(RC)' and 'Builds & Infrastructure'.
  • 2. Lead responsibility of managing software solutions for Peoplefluent's biggest client by revenue.
  • 3. Consistently improved the team productivity by an impressive 40% above the target benchmark for last 3 product releases. The team was hired, trained and put into product development by me.
  • 4. Managerial mandate for increasing quality of hire, retaining top performers, succession planning and overall risk mitigation for India Development Center.
  • 5. Effectuate the merger of software and team members for 'TM Recruiting' and 'RMS' product lines operating in the same domain.
  • 6. Streamline, design and estimate the product enhancements advised by product managers, and keep them in sync with TM suite of products and the scrum teams.
  • 7. Work with BMT (Bangalore Management Team) to handle Bangalore office operations including finance, quality control, infrastructure and human resources.

Technical Lead

Jul 2006May 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • 1. Lead contributor to the development of ATM framework and its architecture which supports six different silos in different modules like Recruiting, Performance, Compensation and Succession.
  • 2. Successfully negotiated the contractual obligations between Peoplefluent Inc. and Makibie Corp. for providing PDF based customizable technical services to the largest client of Peoplefluent Inc.
  • 3. Designed and profitably delivered the integration of 'TM Recruiting' with a host of channel partners including SmartPost(Crossposting Jobs), KMS(Onboarding candidates), Peopleclick (User Security), Linked-in(Job Application) and OAuth(User sign-in).
  • 4. Optimized Recruiting product features & resources after merger of Authoria Inc. & Peopleclick Inc.
  • 5. Envisioned and successfully implemented a service based, highly scalable, plug and play standalone application - 'Online Job Forms' for NGA, Poeplefluent’s lead strategic HR partner.

Streetsmart

Module Lead

Apr 2005Jul 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • 1. Successfully handled the product delivery lines under 'Location' and 'Alert' modules.
  • 2. Designed new product features and successfully enhanced the scalability, stability, and performance of Xora's flagship product (XTT).
  • 3. Customized the 'XTT' product for new customers and set the guidelines for customer support.

Tavant

Software Engineer

Feb 2004Apr 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • 1. Successfully developed the 'Warranty' product - Our acclaimed offering in supply chain domain.
  • 2. Led the unit testing and test automation initiatives for development and quality teams.
  • 3. Initiated and matured an efficient architectural training program for the nascent 'Homer' team.

Eawag

Research Trainee

Aug 2003Jan 2004 · 5 mos · Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

  • 1. Developed a mechanistic mathematical model for aquatic system dynamics.
  • 2. Analyzed effects of catchments alterations on turbulent mixing and vertical fluxes in Lake Brienz.
  • 3. Predicted the long term consequences of anthropogenic nutrient input on biological health of Lake Ohrid.

Empa

Summer Intern

May 2002Jul 2002 · 2 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

  • 1. Studying the 3-D variation of temperature fields in Asphalt.
  • 2. Numerical modeling of test results with ABAQUS/CAE 6.2.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology

Jan 1999Jan 2003

St. Michael's High School, Patna

Class XII

Jan 1997Jan 1999

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