Sunil Kumar

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India19 yrs 10 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led AI-driven engineering initiatives at Flipkart.
  • Managed large-scale Big Data platforms with high concurrency.
  • Expert in cloud migration and data governance strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data and AI expert in E-commerce and Fintech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Big Data AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (ai)Strategic PlanningLeadership

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalysisAnalyticsAndroidApache MahoutApache SparkCatalog ManagementCloud ComputingCustomer IntelligenceDesign PatternsDigital MarketingDistributed SystemsGitHibernate

About

2 Decades of experience in building teams, directing and delivering large scale business applications with Big Data and AI in E-commerce, Travel and Finance domains.

Experience

Warner bros. discovery

Vice President of Engineering

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Data Platform and Analytics Engineering

Flipkart

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2022May 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Driving AI-First Engineering, Business & Developer Productivity – Drove AI-powered developer productivity enhancements, pair programming tools, and automated data insights.
  • Drove AI Powered Java and Library upgrades and refactoring automatically without a human intervention
  • Big Data at Scale – Led Flipkart’s Big Data Platform powering 150K+ compute cores, ingesting 1PB of data daily, and processing 9M messages per second to enable seamless analytics across the organization.
  • Cloud-First & Tech Agnostic Strategy – Orchestrated a 100PB+ migration to Google Cloud Platform in just six months, ensuring a zero-downtime hybrid architecture that leverages both open-source and GCP technologies while maintaining flexibility for future innovations.
  • Building for Scale & Resilience – Managed high-scale events like Big Billion Days, ensuring robust security, scalability, and system resilience to handle peak demand.
  • Real-Time Data & Cross-Company Insights – Launched a real-time Clickstream Analytics platform capable of processing 10B+ records daily and established a secure cross-data insights platform for collaboration across Flipkart Group companies and beyond.
  • Multi-Tenant & Multi-DC Platform Ecosystem – Designed a data-aware, multi-DC architecture that optimizes platform efficiency and enables seamless data sharing.
  • Data Quality & Governance – Built an Early Warning System for Data Pipelines, ensuring timely, high-quality data availability for analytics and AI workloads.
Big Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsLeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)Strategic Planning

Director Of Engineering

Nov 2019Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Flipkart Big Data Platform
Big Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsLeadershipStrategic Planning

Adobe

Head - Adobe Analytics and Engage India

Nov 2016Nov 2019 · 3 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Headed the Adobe Enterprise Analytics India offering for web analytics and algorithmic insights into the customer journey
  • Headed Engineering Adobe Social/Engage
Big Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsLeadershipStrategic PlanningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Paytm

Associate Vice President

Dec 2015Nov 2016 · 11 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Created and Headed the Big Data Analytics Platform at Paytm and Paytm Labs (Canada).
  • Headed Marketplace Catalog Engineering across businesses @ Paytm
Big Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsPersonalizationLeadershipStrategic PlanningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Makemytrip.com

Head of Big Data Analytics/Science

Jul 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Built and directed a team consisting of PMs, TLs, Data scientists, engineers and Infra DevOps which are critical to all Big Data Platform, Data Science/Analytics and personalization APIs at MakeMyTrip. Teams delivering for creation and management of SEM platform, big data predictive analytics for SEM , predictive implementations for personalization, mobile analytics, session migration, business dashboards platform, content normalization, monitoring system and instrumentation framework.
Big Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsPersonalizationLeadershipStrategic PlanningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Shopzilla, inc.

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Feb 2013Jul 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Responsible for all engineering at Shopzilla India leading teams for ecommerce site monetization/management, creation and management of SEM/SEO platforms, big data predictive analytics for SEM , predictive implementations for classification using mahout and hadoop.
Big Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsLeadershipStrategic PlanningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Engineering Manager

Feb 2012Feb 2013 · 1 yr

Big Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsLeadershipStrategic PlanningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Nextag

2 roles

Team Lead

Promoted

Feb 2009Feb 2012 · 3 yrs

  • Owned and delivered several projects while leading a team of 8-10 engineers to define, architect, implement and deliver based on heuristic as well as machine learning systems.
  • Machine learning implementations for finding / removing duplicates, classifying and quality improvements in a catalog of over 100 million products.
  • Worked and innovated closely with business management team for efficient systems for catalog management framework and merchant communication systems which were both merchant facing and facing applications.
  • Deployed both web and android based applications in integration with several third party services.
Distributed Systems

Software Engineer

Aug 2007Feb 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

Tavant technologies

Software Engineer

Jun 2006Aug 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2006

Lovely Public Senior Secondary School

Jan 1991Jan 2001

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