Alok Kumar

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • 9+ years in backend engineering and system design.
  • Expert in cloud-native systems and distributed architecture.
  • Proven track record in mentoring engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineering expert in HealthTech and E-commerce sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend EngineeringCloud-native Systems

Other Skills

Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentPeople ManagementMentoringAlgorithmsData StructuresCPHPC++GitJavaPythonSQLLinuxMySQL

About

Tech Lead Manager with 9+ years of experience in backend engineering, system design, and building scalable products across healthcare, e-commerce, and logistics domains. Proven expertise in designing real-time dispatch engines, distributed systems, and high-performance APIs. Adept at driving technical strategy, mentoring engineering teams, and owning product roadmaps from conception to delivery. Passionate about building customer-centric solutions, fostering collaborative engineering culture, and ensuring operational excellence. Experienced in designing and delivering cloud-native backend systems leveraging AWS, GCP, microservices architecture, DevOps automation, and scalable system design optimized for resilience, performance, and observability. Skilled in leveraging AI tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI APIs to boost developer productivity, accelerate delivery, and drive innovation.

Experience

Red.health

2 roles

Tech Lead Manager

Promoted

Apr 2024May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru · On-site

Team LeadershipBackend EngineeringCloud-Native Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Team LeadershipBackend EngineeringCloud-Native Systems

Amazon

Software Development Engineer 2

Jul 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Zestmoney

Software Development Engineer 2

May 2019Jun 2019 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Zefo

Software Engineer

Sep 2016Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Designed and developed photo upload dashboard for upload, download and
  • re-sizing product images
  • Developed listeners for preliminary checks on product images which are
  • uploaded by warehouse photographers. An example is checking for the correct
  • aspect ratio. After the checks are passed, the images are moved ahead in the
  • pipeline, otherwise an alert is invoked for the concerned team.
  • Increased warehouse efficiency by creating Cataloging tool, Quality Check tool
  • and Product Pricing tool and also minimized losses due to misplaced
  • items/spare parts.
  • Designed a state machine to ensure that a particular product moves through
  • well defined, predictable and allowed states during its life-cycle from inventory
  • to shipping to returns.
  • Developed internal tools for marking and processing damaged items as well as
  • repair/re-cataloging of returned items. The tool also included features to scrap
  • items and keep an audit record for them too.
  • Created a model dashboard, to create, manage and auto populate common
  • attributes for products having the same model and make.
  • Inventory management tool for inter-warehouse transfer of products, which
  • ensured a smooth inter-city order shipments.
  • Auto-generation of vouchers from our participating businesses like Urban
  • Ladder and Pepperfry. These vouchers were given to customers, who sell their
  • items to Zefo.
  • Wrote and maintained various crons and scheduled scripts which ensured
  • healthy systems and removal of stale or redundant data across services.

Practo

Software Engineer

Jun 2015Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Merge Tool
  • Web tool for merging multiple practices/doctors/user-accounts to improve data quality and eliminating duplicates in database
  • Audit system for the merged and primary profiles
  • Data Moderation Tool
  • Tool for computing the diff of user edits to practice/doctor profiles
  • Admin provision to accept/modify/reject changes
  • Generating mail notification for profile owners notifying them of changes with an attached diff
  • Roles and Access Management
  • Worked with Symfony security and hierarchical roles configurations
  • Configure various access/modification rights for Practo employees
  • Data Quality
  • Fixed several incorrect data mappings
  • Wrote cleanups for various orphan and junk data
  • Preventing duplication of data at source by finding and showing the possible duplicate profiles before creation of new profiles
  • Fixed various critical performance and security bugs

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

T P Verma College Narkatiaganj

Jan 2010Present

J A High School Bakhari Bazar

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