Harsh Nikumbh

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams to launch innovative products.
Co-founded a successful luxury lifestyle platform.
Expert in building scalable e-commerce solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-Commerce and E-Learning product development.

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AJAXAgile MethodologiesAndroidCC#C++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTMLHTML + CSSHTML 5Java Enterprise EditionJavaScriptLAMPMicrosoft SQL Server

About

I have rich and diverse start-up experience and have been actively involved in building teams, architecting solutions and delivering products in E-Commerce, Education, Finance, MMOG domains across Web and mobile. In my current role, I lead a team of engineers to build products for next 200M consumers. In my previous roles, as part of various startups, at various stages from very early stage to venture funded, I have worn multiple hats over 15 years. At JobsForHer a diversity platform, led the technology initiative and was responsible for the product roadmap and its delivery. As Co-Founder and Head - Product & Engineering at MobiCom, was responsible for leading a team to deliver a product that was deployed in over 50 clubs in 10+ countries. Previously, as Head of Engineering at Simplilearn, was responsible for the design, development and delivery of all the client facing products on web and mobile. At Sakhatech I have been a tech and agile evangelist and led its open source technologies team as well as the products development group. I have had rich experiences in my earlier stints at Guruji and Buzzgain where I worked with very large and unorganized real-time data.

Experience

Gracenote

Senior Director of Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Pine labs

Director of Engineering

Aug 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Flipkart

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2019 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore · On-site

I have been working on new initiatives and have led the engineering teams to launch couple of products in the social commerce domain.
Shopsy will enable Indians to start their online businesses without any investment.
2GUD Social commerce - Influencer led Video Commerce to enable content-to-commerce play for consumers across the country.

Jobsforher

Vice President - Technology

Feb 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

At JobsForHer, led the technology initiative and was responsible for design and delivery of the platform jobsforher.com

A demographic-driven experiences and commerce solution provider

Cofounder and Head - Product & Engineering

Jun 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

The start up offers luxury lifestyle experiences and aggregated commerce platform. To target HNIs in a particular geography the company offered a customizable platform to the clubs to create and manage their own micro social networking environment including ecommerce, promotions, engagements etc. in a global context for free in lieu of access to their members using targeted promotions. Successfully deployed in over 50 clubs in 10 countries

Simplilearn

Head of Engineering

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos

Simplilearn.com is the world’s largest professional certifications company funded by Mayfield Fund, Kalaari Capital and Helion Venture Partners. As Head of Engineering, was responsible for the e-
commerce portal (http://simplilearn.com), the e-Learning platform (http://lms.simplilearn.com) and the mobile apps. This apart, was responsible for SCORM packaging, Tin Can API POC and proprietary lead gen tool

Sakhatech information systems pvt. ltd

Vice President

Jul 2009 – Aug 2014 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Sakhatech is a new generation product development company that partners with start-ups and enterprises with innovative business arrangements including equity participation. During my 8-year stint, I worked across various roles in the capacity of Technology Head, Tech Lead as well as an individual contributor. I started my agile journey at Sakhatech.