Kiran Kumar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams to scale products 100x.
  • Coached over 5000 professionals in career development.
  • Architected complex systems improving API response times significantly.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Real Estate Tech expert with strong leadership in software architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipProduct DevelopmentCoachingLeadership DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureProblem SolvingSolution ArchitectureSoftware Development

Other Skills

.NET Core.NET FrameworkAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cache ManagementCareer Development CoachingCommunicationComplex SystemsComputer ScienceCreativity and InnovationCross-functional Team LeadershipData ScienceDatabases

About

Experienced engineering leader with over a decade years of experience, dedicated to fostering a customer-centric culture. Guiding delivery through a lens of SPEED and QUALITY, I embody values such as customer obsession, thinking big and long-term, accomplishing more with less, and striving for execution excellence. Notable Metrics and Achievements: - Spearheading large high performing critical teams supporting the entire product portolios and platforms. - Expertise in hiring and nurturing engineers from Intern and Managers/Architect, contributing to a diverse engineering team across multiple functions like Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Quality and Machine Learning. - Expertise in fostering and facilitating growth atmosphere through exclusive sessions, workshops, chapter meetings, coaching and mentoring leading to engineering excellence. - Led diverse projects from inception to a remarkable scaling of 100x, instrumental in driving business growth from x to 10x. - Proficient in crafting High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level (LLD) systems, showcasing adaptability in high business ambiguity scenarios along with taking effective technology choices. - Expertise in System Architecture and Design, contributing to the success of over 💯 projects with varying complexities. - Hands-on experience in languages such as NextJs, ReactJs, NodeJs, Python, and C#. - Championed the development of multiple projects from scratch during hackathons, now integral components of operational scale.

Experience

13 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Wework india

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · India · On-site

  • Set up an engineering team from ground up across frontend, backend, devops and machine learning.
  • Built the core engineering platform to craft digital product journeys, disrupting real estate tech.
  • Heading the core engineering operations
  • Influencing product, growth and innovation through data science and AI.
  • Launched WeWork India's first ever mobile app powering users to book desk, daypass, meeting room and much more...
Systems DesignNodejsPostgreSQLGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Technical LeadershipComplex Systems+17

Medibuddy

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Leading the Distribution Launches, Fintech, and Platform team, we own key platforms and products such as SDK Standardisation, Authentication & Authorisation, RuleEngine, MediClinic, HRWin, Health Risk Assessment App, Analytics Dashboard, Custom Corporate Portal, and TPA integrations.
  • Steering the tech integration of MediBuddy vHealth acquisition.
  • Leading the team in architecting SDK Standardization (API, Plugin) which will help us onboard all the key distribution partners to be able to access MediBuddy's Provider Network.
  • Led the team in launching one of the key features to view "All Transactions," with real-time download view functionality.
  • Architected and engineered a highly cross-pod dependent claim settlement framework from scratch, which had over six failure points through a producer-consumer setup using technologies like SNS, SQS, Kafka, Node.Js with typescript, and Lambdas with databases like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch for logging, etc.
  • We achieved a remarkable 200-300% improvement in the API response time of seven critical microservices and a 50% reduction in server load, resulting in enhanced user experience and decreased operational costs by 75%.
  • Steered three sharp engineers to architect a zero-to-one product to provide Reimbursement services to our B2B customers, which included front-end (launched in mobile through mweb using React Js), back-end (Node Js) in a record time of just four weeks.
  • Revamping the mobile client frontend/backend architecture, boosting P95 latency by 70%.
  • Led platform teams like FinTech (live revenue tracking metrics with an ability to calculate DSO and DPO) & User Management (features related to users like Switch Profile, Login Funnel Improvements, etc.).
  • Led Lock & Key project, a highly collaborative project that safeguarded 112+ microservices of any sensitive data breach to the version control system using AWS secret manager.
Technical LeadershipDistributed SystemsSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Design PatternsNodejsPython (Programming Language)+12

Tech Lead

Nov 2020 – Jul 2021 · 8 mos

  • Responsible for the Engineering Team consisting of 8+ engineers that Handle Corporate Launches & Platform, right from Sprint Planning, Technical PRDs, and designing the end-to-end architecture of the system.
  • Owned the product roadmap, including strategy, architecture, and development, ensuring bug-free integrations and launches and driving corporate GMV upfront, weighing 70% of overall revenue.
NodejsSolution ArchitectureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cross-functional Team LeadershipProblem SolvingTechnical Leadership+7

Lead Software Engineer

Mar 2020 – Oct 2020 · 7 mos

  • Helped the team voluntarily to move on-prem MSSQL Server Databases of the flagship product, MediBuddy, to the cloud-hosted Amazon Web Services RDS within a month.
  • Rewrote the UI to create a dynamic and optimized version of the iSecure dashboard written in ReactJs.
  • Researched, planned, and directed activities of the engineering team to successfully deliver services for iSecure platform (Ops-Tech product to help insurance companies do TeleMER and VideoMER).
  • Helped reducing the AWS platform cost by 59%, moving the infrastructure to Elastic Bean Stalk and other optimisations.
NodejsReact.jsTechnical LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Problem SolvingComplex Systems+12

Growth express

Co-Founder

Jan 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Hybrid

  • Co-founded this community to empower 1 million professionals in effective communication, hard skills, and human skills.
  • Have coached and mentored over 5000+ young, mid-level professionals to help them grow in their careers and relationship.
Start-up LeadershipPersonal DevelopmentCoachingLeadership DevelopmentCareer Development Coaching

Docsapp

Lead Software Engineer

Sep 2019 – Feb 2020 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Architect, Build, and Scale Systems to ensure customer satisfaction score (CSAT) with respect to Vendors/Clients.
  • Lead Information Security renewal process for the ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 & ISO 10002:2014 certificates communicating with various stakeholders and audit consultants.
NodejsReact.jsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Complex SystemsProblem SolvingTeam Leadership+9

Entigence solutions india pvt ltd ( deloitte )

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Led development & enhancement of the flagship SaaS product Lyterati worth $350K which was deemed a "gold standard" by the client.
  • Built a data-intensive annual performance reporting module in Lyterati using Python, GoogleCharts, and MongoDB from scratch replacing the existing Jaspersoft BI reporting tool for visualization cutting platform costs to 95%.
  • Improved Lyterati's availability from 97% to 99.9%, compute-intensive API latencies from 2 seconds to under 500ms.
  • Optimized the AWS platform to prevent server downtime and monitor server health.
  • Redesigned the UI and developed sister applications like Lyt-Onboard and Lyt-Fix.
Technical LeadershipSolution ArchitectureProblem SolvingAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Software DevelopmentSoftware Design Patterns+5

Software Engineer

Sep 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Led the cloud infrastructure of Lyterati hosted in AWS.
  • Developed a data entry application "Lytesaber" using Python, Django, and jQuery.
  • Developed an onboarding application to automate the setup of new clients in the Lyterati infrastructure.
ElasticsearchREST APIsComputer ScienceSolution ArchitectureDatabasesWritten Communication+6

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

Spray Characteristics of Different Liquid Fuels

Aug 2013 – Apr 2014 · 8 mos

  • Spray Characteristics of Different Liquid Fuels and Their Blends:
  • Did a detailed analysis of the Ignition Probabilities of different Liquid fuels and blends using Ansys software.Simulation is done over a flat plate where a fuel droplet is placed upon it with various temperature ranges.
  • Guide : Prof Karmakar S, IIT Kharagpur

The university of alabama

Research Internship

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Greater Tuscaloosa Area

  • Extrusion of Thermoplastic Tapes made of Carbon Fiber/PPS Resin in a Twin Screw Extruder, with and without Nanoparticle Reinforcement.

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

3 roles

Autonomous Micro Air Vehicle, Sponsor - Boeing

Aug 2012 – Nov 2012 · 3 mos

  • Designed and developed fixed wing MAV and tested the feasibility of the autonomous MAV in given design constraints.

Spherical Ball Drone

Jul 2012 – Feb 2013 · 7 mos

  • Design and developed a spherical UAV. Successfully carried out 15 flight missions.

Manufacturing MAV through Vacuum Bagging

Apr 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Lamination of vacuum bagging of laminates for MAV.

Freudenberg filtration technologies

Explorer

Aug 2012 – Aug 2012 · 0 mo · Weinheim, Germany

  • This is a international fully funded youth exchange program where selected participants are given an opportunity for a exciting journey to a Freudenberg site, encounter new people and lifestyles, make new friends and learn to find their way around in a foreign country. Today’s international world of work calls for all these life skills.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor’s Degree

Imperial College London

Master’s Degree

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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