Sumit K.

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Reduced ticket resolution time by 20x.
  • Scaled data engineering to handle tens of terabytes.
  • Launched major products improving customer engagement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Data Engineering Leader with extensive experience in product strategy and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct StrategyData EngineeringEngineering ManagementProcess ImprovementSqlSoftware EngineeringProblem SolvingCloud ComputingDatabase ManagementPython

Other Skills

Project PlanningData StrategiesMonetizationCoaching & MentoringWorkload PrioritizationB2B SoftwareTechnical ArchitectureTeam ManagementTechnical VisionMentoringStakeholder ManagementCommunicationSoftware ArchitectureHigh-Level DesignPeople Management

About

At Apollo.io and my previous companies, my focus has been on nurturing a data-driven culture and refining product strategies to meet visionary goals. Our team's dedication to systematic customer support has propelled us to reduce ticket resolution times significantly, enhancing our service level objectives and accountability. With a robust background in engineering management, I have spearheaded infrastructure migrations and system optimizations, achieving substantial cost savings and reliability improvements. My leadership in data engineering has scaled our capabilities, managing tens of terabytes and integrating over 100 data sources, which fundamentally improved the experience for 17+ million users on the Postman API Platform and Apollo.IO Data products.

Experience

Headout

Engineering Manager

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Self-employed

Independent Product Strategist & Technical Leader

Nov 2024Jul 2025 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Launched 4 micro ventures in domains such as digital products shop, blogging platform, Print on demand and physical book
  • Applied engineering leadership principles on technical execution, releasing products with SSO login, payments and referral programs
  • Iteratively researched market opportunities, validated business strategies, and explored monetization models with user feedback
Project PlanningEngineering LeadershipData StrategiesMonetizationCoaching & MentoringProduct Strategy

Apollo.io

Software Engineering Manager

Aug 2023Oct 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Launched 4 major products, two of them led by our team and other two in partnership with different product teams and AI/LLM assisted
  • Cut bounce rate by 50%+ for our customers by gathering signals from all users of the engagement platform and identifying bad emails
  • Automated asks from sales and customer success teams which reduced turnaround time from 2 weeks to 5 minutes for such requests
Workload PrioritizationB2B SoftwareData EngineeringTechnical ArchitectureProblem SolvingTeam Management+7

Hackerrank

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Introduced systematic customer support process which reduced average ticket resolution time by 20x to help Customer success team achieve better SLOs and increased accountability of teams
  • Introduced a new system for launching environments and removed manual processes resulting in single week delivery from multi quarters
  • Introduced Hubs, Spokes & Pods model to handle visionary and missionary goals in parent team resulting in faster focused execution from multi quarters to multi sprints
  • Led the effort to migrate infrastructure to new efficient system resulting in around 75% cost savings and increased reliability
Workload PrioritizationB2B SoftwareSoftware ArchitectureProblem SolvingHigh-Level DesignTeam Management+9

Postman

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2020May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Mentored and grew 10 members remote team from 5 office based people by remotely hiring and smoothening out processed of onboarding, on-call, contribution and collaboration.
  • Scaled data engineering team to handle 10s of TeraBytes of data from 100s of GigaBytes by designing isolated interfaces in storage and compute
  • Scaled data ingestion upto 10 billion rows/month from 10s of millions by bringing in 100+ integrations from different sources and launching Data Integration platform
  • Improved experience of 17M users of Postman API Platform via Search and Enterprise Reporting by building systems for data sourcing from data warehouse [https://bit.ly/postman-search]
Workload PrioritizationB2B SoftwareData EngineeringAmazon RedshiftTechnical ArchitectureProblem Solving+11

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jul 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr

  • Directly impacted 10+ teams and made company more data centric by launching Data transformation platform and pushing for Data democratisation along with Data Analysis team [https://bit.ly/postman-datademocratization]
  • Reducing storage cost by 2x in Redshift by implementing compression strategies in tables
  • Designed multiple resilient and auditable systems to import and export data from and to different sources
  • Increased queries speed by 6x and reduced data wait time by optimising Redshift storage distribution
Workload PrioritizationSQLB2B SoftwareData EngineeringTechnical ArchitectureProblem Solving+8

Data Engineer

Jul 2018Jun 2019 · 11 mos

  • Onboarded and coordinating with new team members and other members of different squads
  • Increased quality and confidence on the data to a level where it was used to serve consumers by actively tracking, monitoring and proactively resolving incidents
  • Brought principle of Software engineering in data analytics with the help of Data Build Tool (DBT)
  • Contributed to and integrated multiple open source projects
SQLB2B SoftwareAmazon RedshiftTechnical ArchitectureNoSQLDistributed Computing+5

Minewhat, inc

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2017Jun 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · On-site

  • 1. Product level Module Development for Internal Product releases,
  • 2. Lead Data team of company and provided Back-end support for the process, coordinating team members based on requirements
B2B SoftwareMongoDBNoSQLProblem SolvingDistributed ComputingCode Review+5

Software Engineer II

Feb 2016Jan 2017 · 11 mos · On-site

  • 1. Cloud Platform deployment (Azure and AWS),
  • 2. Designed a complete Stream architecture based Analytics Solution using Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash),
  • 3. Designed a User Enrichment flow for our customers and integrated with 4 major email solutions,
  • 4. Handled our small team of 8 members with senior team member, whenever the need occurred
LinuxB2B SoftwareDistributed ComputingCode ReviewApache KafkaRedis+4

Software Engineer

Aug 2015Jan 2016 · 5 mos · On-site

  • 1. Managing NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cassandra) for Analytics and Customer Inventory Data Storage,
  • 2. Integrated with e-Commerce platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce for smoother customer onboarding and automating data collection
B2B SoftwareMongoDBNode.jsCassandraSoftware EngineeringDatabase Management

Software Engineer Internship

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · On-site

  • Website Crawling,
  • Python Scripts for 3rd party tools Integration,
  • Data extraction and processing
B2B SoftwarePython (Programming Language)PythonData CollectionData Engineering

Nettech private limited

Summer Trainee

May 2014Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Kolkata Area, India · On-site

  • Network Management Trainee and Merit certificate Holder for Top Ten in Batch
  • http://www.nettech.in/summer/training/2014/iit-kharagpur/
Linux

Education

Guru Ghasidas University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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