Prashant Kumar

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 5 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led teams to develop scalable SaaS products.
  • Expert in leveraging AI for product enhancement.
  • Proven track record in engineering management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in scalable systems and AI-driven product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentPeople ManagementSaas DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipCloud Computing

Other Skills

AIProject ManagementGo (Programming Language)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIDistributed SystemsData StructuresAlgorithmsgRPCIT StrategyLinuxSoftware DevelopmentGradleKubernetesDocker

About

I am an accomplished Engineering manager with a proven track record of building and managing highly robust, scalable, distributed and secure software products. I have experience in managing and growing mid to large sized teams that have generated extreme tech leverage for the business. I am extremely passionate about building great products that exceeds customer expectations. I possess excellent leadership and people management skills and I am able to effectively utilise it with strong analytical and problem solving skills, attention to details, and great communication skills.

Experience

17 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Oracle

Snr Engineering Manager/M3, software development

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Hybrid

  • Managing a team of over 20 engineers to develop scalable and reliable software products.
  • Managing five concurrent projects, leveraging AI to enhance product quality and efficiency.
  • Fostered a collaborative environment to drive innovation and meet project deadlines.
Engineering ManagementProduct Development

Ukg

Snr Software Engineering Manager/M4

Oct 2024May 2025 · 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid

  • Managed a team of 15 engineers, including SRE team with up to 22 years of experience, to build a SaaS product focused on labor budgeting and volume planning for enterprise retail clients.
  • Oversaw engineering and SRE initiatives with a projected revenue potential of $15M annually, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Actively contributed to system design and code reviews, while establishing clear expectations for code quality, 100 % test coverage, and automation.
  • Drove major improvements in the SDLC and CI/CD processes to enhance quality and stability, aligning with UKG standards post-acquisition.
  • Established structured processes to track engineering KPIs, manage third-party dependencies (3PPs), monitor API performance, and enhance system observability.
  • Led the creation of high-level design documentation to identify and eliminate single points of failure, improving system resilience.
Engineering ManagementPeople ManagementGo (Programming Language)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIDistributed Systems+3

Adidas

Senior Engineering Manager/M3

May 2022Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • Managed and mentored a team of 10-12 engineers, fostering growth and delivery excellence.
  • Designed, built, tested, and released a high-performance E-commerce solution using modern tech stacks, supporting millions of orders with peak traffic of 50K transactions in a single day.
  • Defined product and people goals, set milestones, established DevOps processes, and implemented engineering best practices—including application monitoring and automation KPIs.
  • Coordinated with internal and external stakeholders, including Product Owners, Architects, Business Teams, and teams from Salesforce, Akamai, and AWS.
  • Led quarterly planning, prioritisation, product roadmap alignment, and long-term technology vision.
  • Established processes for technical documentation and clean coding practices.
  • Drove hiring efforts, coaching initiatives, and organization-wide knowledge-sharing programs.
  • Collaborated with peers to build a tech community focused on cross-team collaboration and innovation.
IT StrategyLinuxSoftware DevelopmentGradleAlgorithmsKubernetes+34

Oracle

Engineering Leader

Nov 2021May 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Led a team of 8 engineers and worked in the design and development of SAAS
  • product.
  • Worked with product leadership to create product strategies, KPIs, and roadmap.
  • Worked with senior engineers to solve critical problems of the product.
  • Built an Agile Scrum team and hired 5 engineers from outside.
  • Led setting up of process for Product development SDLC and Engineering best practices.
Engineering ManagementProduct Development

Ericsson

Technical Lead

Aug 2018Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · On-site

  • Led a team of 12 engineers to develop a cloud native product, resulting in a 30% increase in subscriptions.
  • Created and implemented clean coding practices across the product suite, improving code quality and long-term maintainability.
  • Guided the engineering team in enhancing monitoring and observability across multiple services.
  • Improved product performance by 2× through optimised indexing and SQL query tuning.
  • Prioritised and led the automation of business-critical scenarios, increasing automation by 20%.
  • Worked on design and development of Kafka-consumers, business critical functional
  • requirements such as implementation of throttling, service discovery, and could based
  • deployments.
  • Reviewed design and code to ensure high quality and clean coding standards.
  • Worked on gathering functional requirements from Product managers, chief
  • architects, and upstream teams to create technical backlog.
Written CommunicationDatabase Management System (DBMS)AlgorithmsKubernetesUnixJava+13

Rbs international

Senior Engineer

Jul 2015Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo · On-site

  • Worked as senior developer/Lead developer using Java, DB2, Unix, Mainframes, SOAP, REST and
  • microservices.
  • Worked on multiple requirements implementation that was to adhere UK finance regulations.
  • Written and reviewed quality codes for the module.
  • Migrated product from monolith to microservices architecture
  • Worked on achieving good performance metrics for the product.
  • Designed and implemented SEPA payments requirements for the product.
  • Led a team of 6 people and managed team.
  • Responsible for vendor resource training and team alignments.
  • Responsible to ensure successful production deployment and after support of the application.
UnixJavaTeam LeadershipActiveMQSOAPRESTful WebServices

Publicis sapient

Software Programmer

Mar 2013Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Developed and integrated E-commerce application modules using Java, Oracle, and E-com frameworks.
  • Involved in requirements gathering and low level design of the application.
  • Developed SSO login functionality and OAuth feature for the application.
  • Developed and integrated many functionalities such as shopping carts, checkout, payment integration
  • for E-com clients.
  • Involved in debugging, troubleshooting and fixing of production issues and defects.
  • Written functional test cases and helped teams in the testing of the application.
  • Worked on catalog search functionality using search algorithms.
  • Responsible for production support of the application after deployment for couple of weeks.
  • Conducted various knowledge transfer sessions for new incumbents to educate them about the project
  • and related activities.

Genpact headstrong capital markets

Software Engineer

Dec 2010Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Learned Java, Spring, Hibernate and database to work on the Java based application development.
  • Responsible for writing quality codes and Junits for the module.
  • Involved in understanding requirements and working on low level design of the module.
  • Responsible for running codes optimisation tools and fixing issues in the code.
  • Responsible to write system test cases of the application.
  • Responsible to analysing log files in production.
  • Implemented logging framework in the application.

Apna solution pvt ltd

Web Developer

Dec 2008Dec 2010 · 2 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • - Worked on building websites

Education

Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha

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

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Kendriya Vidyalaya

SSC — Mathematics and Computer Science

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