Rupesh Kumar

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

24+ years in technology leadership and engineering management.
Expert in building scalable cloud platforms and products.
Proven track record in fostering high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a focus on engineering leadership.

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Agile MethodologiesApacheCloud ComputingColdFusionDistributed SystemsE-commerceEngineering ManagementEnterprise SoftwareHibernateIntegrationJavaJava ConcurrencyJava Enterprise EditionJavaScriptLarge Scale Systems

About

Technology leader with 24+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling deep tech cloud platforms and products. With a proven track record of success, I have built and led high-performing engineering teams of up to 200 professionals, driving innovation and delivering exceptional results. My expertise lies in crafting modern cloud platforms that can seamlessly handle massive scale, enabling businesses to thrive in today's digital landscape. I thrive on solving complex deep tech problems, leveraging my in-depth knowledge of Massively Large Scale Distributed Systems, Microservices, API Security, API Platforms, DevOps, Observability, DevSecOps, AI/ML, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and the AWS ecosystem. Throughout my career, I have fostered a culture of excellence and collaboration, assembling A+ teams that consistently deliver outstanding outcomes. I am passionate about nurturing talent and building great engineering cultures that inspire innovation and drive continuous improvement.

Experience

Wework india

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Medibuddy

SVP and Head of Engineering

Nov 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Bigbasket.com

Sr. Director Of Engineering

Jun 2018 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

Adobe

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

As the senior Engineering Manager for Adobe's e-commerce platform, I am responsible for planning, design, development and delivery for the next-gen e-commerce platform.

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2010 – Jan 2016 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Managed three products – API Management Platform, Adobe ColdFusion Server and Adobe ColdFusion Builder
Conceptualized and developed v1.0 product around API Management ground up with industry best latency of < 3 ms
Collaborated with product management to define product roadmap and feature set for release
Introduced many new language constructs and features to keep the product modern and on cutting edge

Sr. Computer Scientist

Sep 2004 – Feb 2010 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Helped shaping up all features of the product across versions
Built release-defining features for ColdFusion 7, 8 and 9.
Optimized server runtime to improve performance by 300%
Greatly enhanced the CFML language, primarily around CFC, promoting OO programming in CFML.
Implemented HTTP/1.1 protocol and Servlet 2.4 specification along with many other features in JRun Web container

Pramati technologies

Sr. Software Engineer

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs

In the span of 4 years, I worked on both the products – Pramati Server and Pramati Studio (J2EE IDE).
Redesigned the security service for Pramati server to provide enterprise class security features to protect the server resources and prevent any potential threat to the server and the applications deployed on it.
Built the complete PKI infrastructure for Pramati Server including a certificate server.
For Pramati Studio, I designed and implemented the integration with all major application servers – Pramati Server, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle App Server and JRun.
Designed and implemented a Virtual File System to work with files in memory, disk, archives etc seamlessly, much before Apache VFS was born.