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kapil kumawat

Director of Engineering

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India17 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17 years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Expert in scaling engineering organizations.
  • Proven track record in delivering enterprise B2B products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with extensive experience in product development and team management.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Leadership DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentDevopsReact.jsFront-end Development

Other Skills

ManagementContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Project ManagementPeople ManagementUser Experience (UX)UIContinuous DeliveryTypeScriptContinuous IntegrationUnix Shell ScriptingJavaScriptOOPShell ScriptingJavaCore Java

About

As a Senior Director of Engineering with over 17 years of experience, I specialize in scaling engineering organizations and delivering high-quality, enterprise B2B products. I have a proven track record of building and managing high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams—across multiple time zones. My leadership philosophy is built on improving development productivity and increasing deployment confidence. I achieve this by implementing robust CI/CD pipelines, championing comprehensive test strategies, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership. With a strong foundation in hands-on development and a career spent leading complex projects, I offer a unique perspective on how to build successful products, mentor future leaders, and align technology strategy with business goals.

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Goldcast

2 roles

Sr Director of Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Remote

  • Lead and mentor the entire engineering organization for the Goldcast Events core team.
  • Define and execute the high-level technical strategy and product roadmap, ensuring alignment with Goldcast's core business objectives.
  • Drive engineering excellence, operational stability, and platform scalability to support a growing enterprise customer base.
  • Responsible for the complete software development lifecycle, departmental budgeting, and scaling the organization by hiring and developing engineering leaders.
Leadership DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentDevOpsManagement

Director of Engineering

Apr 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

  • Build and scale the company's product development and DevOps functions.
  • Successfully grew the engineering team from the ground up, establishing best practices for code quality, agile processes, and system architecture.
  • Led the strategy and implementation of robust CI/CD pipelines, significantly improving deployment velocity and reducing production regressions.
  • Managed multiple product and platform teams, fostering a strong engineering culture that enabled the company to achieve its key product milestones.
Product DevelopmentDevOps

Harness

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager (UI) at Harness

Feb 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Managing multiple teams
  • Team has grown to multiple timezones
  • More included in the product UX/UI and new product features
Product DevelopmentDevOps

Engineering Manager (UI)

Apr 2021 – Feb 2022 · 10 mos

  • From IC to EM and a new challenge for me, but achieved a great lot of achievements and appreciation from top management and team members. Few worthy to note:
  • Build a unified UI team for Continuous Delivery
  • Delivered features from UX/UI/Stories to user feedback
  • Grown team from single-digit to double-digit in the span of a few months
  • Continuous feedback/Couch the team at every point, these include freshers to lateral hires
  • Still got some time to code and built many new features
React.jsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)ManagementProject ManagementPeople ManagementUser Experience (UX)+3

Principal Software Engineer

Oct 2020 – Apr 2021 · 6 mos

  • Worked on the generic library to build pipelines and used by many of the harness products like CD/CI/FF and many more will continue to use. Also worked on the generic UI components library, build system, and added quality controls to the system.
React.jsContinuous DeliveryTypeScriptContinuous IntegrationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Product Development+2

Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2019 – Oct 2020 · 11 mos

  • Worked on the existing product of Harness and solved many technical challenges here, first adding unit test automation from zero to 70% over this period of the team, showing the team how to do TTD, and solidifying the current product so that we can work on next product of Harness.
React.jsTypeScriptProduct DevelopmentFront-End DevelopmentDevOps

Appdynamics

2 roles

Technical Leader

Jun 2019 – Nov 2019 · 5 mos

Product DevelopmentFront-End Development

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • He was again the first member of India UI team and helped to setup the team, works across multiple projects and BUs. The key projects which he worked are:
  • Cisco ACI/AppDynamics integration
  • Migrating Existing pages to Angular from AngularJs
  • Performance Improvement
Product DevelopmentFront-End Development

Servicenow

User Interface Developer

Jul 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad

  • He was first member in India Team under Performance Analytics BU and also helped in creating a self independent team. He took the complete ownership of UI for dashboards and interactive filters and all interactive components, the key projects which he worked on were:
  • D3 Tree view component to define relationship between different entities for a dashboard or related KPIs. Technologies used are ES6 using babel and webpack
  • Cascading filter, a filter which filters other filters, technologies used is angular/gulp/sass.
  • Interactive Analysis of any list, technologies used angular/gulp/sass.
Product DevelopmentFront-End Development

Pegasystems

Principal Solutions Engineer

Jun 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Working as an lead UI developer across all Pega customer service products, work involves from features development, widget creation to mock reviews and discussion with the Product owners and engineering team.
Product DevelopmentFront-End Development

Ca technologies

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • CA Technologies – Cloud Service Manager
  • Project Description:
  • Project involves overhauling the exhausting UI of the existing workspaces and creation of new one as well.
Front-End Development

Software Engineer

Oct 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • CA Technologies – OpenSpace
  • Project Description:
  • Project involves migrating from liferay 5.2 to 6.1 and giving a new UI to the OpenSpace as product.

Syntel

Analyst Programmer

Aug 2008 – Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pune

  • Worked for the Allstate Client (Insurance Company) as independent player for software developer.
  • Work on the framework development and technologies used:
  • C/C++, gdb, socket programming, shell script, HTML, javascript etc
  • Responsibilities:
  • Codding, unit testing and release management

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

PG Diploma — Machine Learning and AI

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science (MS) — Software Systems

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

Engineering College Bikaner

BE — Computer Science

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008

Atomic Energy Central School

School (X

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004

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