Keerthana "KK" Kumar

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Empathetic leader building diverse engineering teams.
  • Expert in strategic leadership and organizational vision.
  • Proven track record in software development and project planning.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Fintech with a strong focus on engineering management.

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Skills

Other Skills

Diversity & InclusionOrganizational VisionStrategic LeadershipAlgorithmsComputer ScienceAndroid DevelopmentiOS developmentStatisticsProgrammingSoftware DevelopmentProject PlanningRecruitingPythonNode.jsC++

About

Empathetic Leader focused on building diverse high function engineering teams that innovate to build the best products for customers.

Experience

13 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
4 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Stripe

3 roles

Head of Engineering, Stripe Capital

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Head of Engineering, Embedded Finance Experience

Jun 2024 – Dec 2024 · 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Head of Engineering, Issuing Cards and Banks

Nov 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Github

5 roles

Director Of Engineering

Apr 2021 – Nov 2021 · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Interim Director

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Mar 2021 · 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Staff Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 · 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Enterprise Tools

2020-2021 Adacats Leader

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Adacats is an employee resource group (ERG) for woman and other marginalized genders in technology

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Nov 2019 – Sep 2020 · 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Enterprise Tools

Microsoft

6 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2019 – Nov 2019 · 5 mos

  • GitHub inside Microsoft

Developer Division Hiring Champ

Oct 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Designed and developed inclusive interviewing strategies for Developer Services Division at Microsoft.
  • Enabled the team to hire 150+ university and industry software engineer and program managers.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2018 – Jun 2019 · 9 mos

  • App Center

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Feb 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • App Center

Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • HockeyApp

Software Engineer Intern

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

University of texas at austin

2 roles

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Promoted

Aug 2012 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Austin, Texas

Student Assistant

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Office of Honors, Research and International Study.

Facebook

Software Engineer Intern

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Menlo Park, CA

  • Mobile Android Development

Texas advanced computing center (tacc)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Research on MRI scan visualization

Indian institute of technology

Research Intern

May 2010 – Jun 2010 · 1 mo

  • Member of research team that worked on the Meta Proof System
  • Presented paper: "A Meta Proof System for Propositional Logic".

Infosys limited

Summer Intern

Apr 2008 – May 2008 · 1 mo

  • Team member of design group that developed a model for Library Management
  • Presented a business model for the software

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Stanford LEAD Program

Mar 2020 – Mar 2021

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science

Harvard Business School Online

Certificate Programs

Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

University of Washington

Certificate in Engineering Leadership

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

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