Ramkumar D.

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India27 yrs 9 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 29 years of experience in top-tier tech and finance firms.
  • Led engineering teams across five countries.
  • Pioneered digital healthcare innovation in Southeast Asia.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a senior engineering leader in the healthcare and media technology sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentMentoringStartups

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon DynamodbAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApache CordovaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business-to-Business (B2B)Cloud ApplicationsCloud ComputingData EngineeringData ScienceDevOpsDistributed SystemsE-commerceEnterprise Architecture

About

With a career spanning over 29 years, Ramkumar has delivered exceptional results across some of the world’s top-tier technology and financial institutions, including Amazon, Microsoft, Intuit, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Halodoc. His visionary and strategic thought leadership, combined with his deep technical expertise with demonstrated ability to architect complex enterprise systems, scale global engineering teams, and align technology with business goals is second to none. At Nielsen Media, Ramkumar currently leads the global Engineering function for their International TV Audience Measurement business, a $300Mn+ portfolio serving over 35 countries. He has built and led high-performing engineering teams across five countries, driving product innovation, operational efficiency, and global scalability. Before Nielsen, as VP of Product Engineering at Halodoc, Ramkumar led a 220+ member engineering organization spanning four countries. Under his leadership, Halodoc built distributed systems on AWS, advanced their AI/ML and data platforms, and redefined digital healthcare in Southeast Asia. What truly sets Ramkumar apart is his unwavering focus on real-world impact. He blends deep technical expertise with a strong leadership ethos, always empowering teams and fostering innovation. His credentials—PMP, Six Sigma, MIT Design Thinking, 3x AWS Certified Architect, and a Data Science certification from IIM Kozhikode—reflect his lifelong commitment to growth and excellence.

Experience

Nielsen

VP Engineering - International (Product Development, AI/ML, Data Engineering/BI, QA, DevOps/SRE)

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Heading the Global E2E Engineering function (spanning across Product development, AI, Quality, DevOps/SRE, Data Engineering) for the Nielsen Media - International TV Audience Measurement group
  • Overseeing an annual revenue portfolio of US $300Mn, serving 35+ countries
  • Leading a global Engineering team spread across 5 countries (India, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia) and established a strong engineering culture fostered by effective cross-country/team collaboration, Engineering Excellence fueled by Metrics-driven decision making across all levels of the Engineering organisation
Cloud ApplicationsProduct DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data EngineeringLarge Language Models (LLM)DevOps+3

Stealth mode startup company

Angel Investor, Technical Advisor and Startup Mentor

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • 1. Virtual reality (VR) experience in Real Estate
  • 2. Digital Astrology and Spirituality Assistant
Business-to-Business (B2B)MentoringStartups

Halodoc id

VP Engineering(Product & Plaform Dev,AI/ML,Data Platform/BI/Analytics) & Deputy India Site Leader

Oct 2019Nov 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · Hybrid

  • Head of Engineering and Product Development (incl.Data Platform, BI, Analytics, AI/ML) spanning across 4 countries (India,Indonesia,Vitenam and Serbia) across 10 product teams with an org size of about 250+ Engineers for Indonesia's #1 Healthcare Tech company (Global Rank of Healthcare companies: 72) in B2B and B2C space; Provided Deputy Site-leadership for the India site (Tech-hub)
Site leadershipData ScienceMicroservicesMachine LearningEngineering LeadershipProduct Development+7

Intuit

Engineering Lead - QuickBooks Payments

Jun 2017Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Hands-on Engineering Leader for QuickBooks Payments responsible for building systems and services that generate ~$13B Charge volume on an annual basis. Managing a high-performance cross-technology Engineering team of 15+ Engineers (Devs/DevOps) with diverse experience (1-18 years), providing technical direction and driving the product vision/roadmap for the QuickBooks Desktop Payments Business.

Swiggy

VP Engineering (Storefront)

Sep 2016Apr 2017 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Head of Engineering for Swiggy's Storefront, responsible for providing technical leadership in driving technology to help Swiggy scale its business in the most efficient way, building engineering teams comprising of highly motivated engineering talent who are passionate about their work.

Infibeam.com

Director of Technology (Head of Product Engineering, Program Mgmt, QA and Ops)

Oct 2015Jul 2016 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Head of the technology organization (Product Engineering, PMO, Client Services/Operations and QA teams) for BuildABazaar, an Online Ecommerce Retail Platform catering to over 30,000 online stores in India and Middle East, built on Ruby On Rails, Solr, MySQL and Apache on Linux platform for the “responsive web” experience and Apache Cordova, Ionic Framework and Angular.js for the Mobile experience.

Spotreviews

Chief Technical Advisor (Honorary)

Sep 2015Aug 2023 · 7 yrs 11 mos · Greater Chennai Area · Remote

  • Spotreviews is about reviews aggregator platform that spans across multiple industries. As an honorary Chief Technical Advisor, I've been helping them setup and operate their AWS cloud infrastructure optimally.

J.p. morgan

Vice President (Application Development) - Alternative Investments Technology

Aug 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Led the Application Development/Engineering function for the Alternative Investments Services group of the Corporate Investment Bank division of JP Morgan Services (India), responsible for providing hands-on technical leadership for a multi-location development team (.NET/Java).

Amazon

Software Development Manager / Senior Technical Program Manager

Sep 2011May 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for software development, technical program management, project delivery and WW stakeholder management for the Retail Pricing Team at Amazon.

Goldman sachs

Senior Technical Manager (VP) - Workplace and Middleware Technologies

May 2010Sep 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Hands-on deep Technical Leadership, People Management, Solution Architecture/Design
  • Build, lead and manage a highly-motivated software engineering team comprising of experienced developers (from both Microsoft and Java platforms) in architecting, designing, building and deployment of :
  • Enterprise-class messaging solution and reusable set of APIs and SDKs for enabling telephony based communications and CTI scenarios

Microsoft

Technical Architect

Jul 2005Apr 2010 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Titles held:
  • Senior Consultant (SharePoint/VSTS/ALM/WebAppDev)
  • Senior Partner Solution Architect

Techsystems sws inc., usa

Consultant

Sep 1999Jun 2005 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Fremont, California

  • USA

Pentafour software exportsc

Assistant Consultant

Sep 1996Aug 1999 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Education

Woolf

Master of Business Administration - MBA — International Business

Jan 2024Jan 2025

University of Madras

Bachelor’s Degree

Jan 1993Jan 1996

NIIT Ltd.

Graduate of NIIT Software Exports (GNX) — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 1993Jan 1997

Spartan Matriculation

Jan 1988Jan 1993

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