Keshav Kumar

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering for India's top e-commerce platform.
Expert in media content localization across multiple languages.
Proven track record in building scalable tech solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce expert with a strong focus on scalable solutions and media technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureE-commerceProduct ManagementNatural Language Processing (nlp)Project Management

Other Skills

MicroservicesProject EngineeringWeb ApplicationsExecutive TeamAnalytical SkillsCareer ManagementCommunicationConflict ManagementCustomer ExperienceDebuggingDistributed SystemsLeadershipManagementMentoringOrganizational Leadership

About

As the Head of Engineering, Security and Programs at Bigbasket.com, India's leading online grocery and e-commerce platform, I spearhead our expansive engineering and tech programs organization. My area of impact spans the entire tech stack, from various customer-facing applications to backend services, analytics, data pipelines, ML, infrastructure, QA, security and DevOps. We build cutting-edge solutions that power everything from ordering and payments on customer apps to our robust supply chain and logistics framework. We even offer this expertise as a SaaS solution for other large enterprises. With many years of leadership experience, I'm deeply passionate about solving complex problems and building customer-centric solutions that drive tangible business impact. My ability to lead diverse teams, coupled with my strategic tech vision, allows me to consistently deliver successful, highly scalable products in dynamic domains like OTT, e-commerce, and supply chain. Previously, at Amazon, I led the Prime Video global content/UI localization and language experience team. Here, my multidisciplinary geolocated team developed world-class technology to scale media content localization across 30+ languages in 192+ countries/territories.

Experience

21 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Bigbasket.com

2 roles

Head of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

I head the entire engineering organization for Bigbasket where my team of ~300 bright engineers and data scientists build an array of cutting edge software for all the various BB apps (Bigbasket, BB Now, BB Daily, BB Instant, Fresho, etc.) covering everything from order to payment, as well as the entire supply chain and mid/last mile software that gets used not only at Bigbasket but is powering the supply chain for other big enterprises as a SaaS offering.

System ArchitectureMicroservicesProject EngineeringWeb ApplicationsExecutive TeamE-Commerce+27

Director Of Engineering

Jun 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

I lead the engineering for Bigbasket’s supply chain (warehouse management and last mile delivery) systems and all the various consumer facing applications on web, android, iOS and PWA.

Performance ManagementAnalytical SkillsSenior Stakeholder ManagementProduct ManagementProject DeliveryCareer Management+6

Amazon

3 roles

Sr. Manager, Software Development

Oct 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

I was the Product, Technology and Program leader for the Prime Video global content/UI localization and language experience team. Led a multidisciplinary team including product managers, program managers, applied scientists, software developers, full stack engineers, UX designers and quality assurance engineers that create world class advance technology to scale subtitle, dubbing, metadata and other types of media content localization across 30+ languages.

Performance ManagementAnalytical SkillsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Senior Stakeholder ManagementProduct ManagementProject Delivery+8

Software Development Manager III

Apr 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Led Prime Video X-Ray services team to setup vision to remove dependency on IMDb data. Bootstrapped a team ground up starting from idea pitching to prototype to MLP launch to enable Prime Video scale its content localization globally.

Performance ManagementAnalytical SkillsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Senior Stakeholder ManagementProject DeliveryCareer Management+7

Software Development Manager II

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos

Led my team to help launch Prime Video globally across 200+ countries/territories for the Living Room devices. Launched a pseudo live capability on the Prime Video players spread across 100+ disparate devices.

Performance ManagementAnalytical SkillsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Career ManagementSystem ArchitectureOver-the-Top Content (OTT)+5

Netapp

Member Technical Staff

Jan 2011 – Apr 2016 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

CIFS
NFS (most recently)
Storage failover and High Availability
7DOT Expertise
Clustered Data ONTAP.
Supportability & Testability expertise.
Customer escalations, partner issues, etc.
Performance Tuning and Analysis.

Analytical SkillsCareer ManagementProject EngineeringConflict Management

Motorola

Senior Software Engineer

May 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Worked on an end to end solution consisting an IP cordless handset embedded within an embedded multimedia terminal adapter and cable modem.
Contributed extensively towards the Serial Abstraction layer, design and code of a proprietary multiplexing communication protocol for data packets traffic between 3 physical devices (eMTA, cordless base and multiple IP handsets), software upgrade protocol for IP handset and Cordless base.
Been working on Motorola's surfboard product line that involves software development using PacketCable standards, SIP protocol and an assortment of other protocols.

Project Engineering

Nxp semiconductors

Senior software Engineer

May 2006 – May 2007 · 1 yr

Worked primarily on implementing new host-target communication tools and porting existing tools on new NXP/Philips platforms and TriMedia chipsets. Some sample tools were Memory profiler and debugger, JTAG download tools, Register status tool and so on.

Tata elxsi

Software Engineer

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Worked on a DVD player solution. My contribution included working on coding/testing of Front End Device driver and the Controller task that managed all internal modules. I also wrote a test application that helped us test the modules independently on Windows before using them on ARM.
Worked on a JPEG 2000 decoder application. Contributed to the entire decoding algorithm coding, particularly performance optimization and memory optimization.