Kumar Akarsh

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams to develop scalable healthcare applications.
Successfully launched a diagnostics business with significant growth.
Expert in fostering team culture and driving accountability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare SaaS leader with strong engineering and business acumen.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipReact NativeAwsMicroservicesBusiness AcumenPnl ManagementSoftware DevelopmentWeb Applications

Other Skills

AI LiteracyAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAngularApache KafkaApplication Programming Interfaces (API)AppraisalArchitectureArchitecture ReviewsArtificial Intelligence (AI)B2BB2C

About

An accomplished entrepreneur and tech leader with 12+ years of experience leading multiple teams to success. Proven ability to foster a culture of camaraderie, ownership and accountability. Adept in collaborating with cross-functional teams, driving team culture, and mentoring talent. Experienced in working with modern technologies and setting up efficient processes to get the best out of the people.

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Aidash

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading multi functional engineering teams for IVMS™, the flagship product of AI Dash for planning, analysing and executing vegetation management plans for our clients.

Healthplix

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Owned consumer facing business and tech for HealthPlix, India's largest Doctor EMR Platform.
Led teams of Go Lang and React Native engineers to build seamless consumer experience on HealthPlix Patient app, which rapidly scaled beyond a million downloads with high user engagement metrics.
Ran successful pilot projects for Doctor-Patient interaction AI usecases, targering enhancing productivity for Indian and overseas markets.

Large Language Models (LLM)Engineering LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)React NativeOpen telemetryAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)+16

Pharmeasy

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading engineering teams responsible for diagnostics consumer journey - focusing on traffic, discovery & cross sell, checkout funnel and post order journey
Fostered a team culture of collaboration, helping & unblocking each other, knowledge exchange via architecture/design reviews and ownership and accountability to keep the team motivated to meet deliverables

Progressive Web Applications (PWAs)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Spring BootDistributed SystemsPriority ManagementAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)+37

Medlife.com

Director, Diagnostics Business

May 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for managing supply side P&L for diagnostics business of Medlife labs - spread across 20+ cities having 4 regional processing laboratories.
Set up process around procurement, accounting and continuous cost optimisation by nurturing an org culture of efficiency and accountability

Business AcumenSoftware DevelopmentCommunicationPriority ManagementStakeholder ManagementPnL Management+16

Medlabz

Co-Founder

Aug 2015 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, India

Covered the zero to one journey as a founder of MedLabz which was an online aggregator of diagnostic labs owning the complete service delivery.
We scaled the business to an ARR of 8+ Cr focusing majorly on greater Mumbai geography, venturing into multiple business streams - both retails and corporates as TG.
As with any entrepreneur, took on multiple hats such as product and technology, strategy and operations

Business AcumenMemcachedDatabasesSoftware DevelopmentBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Communication+25

Gulftalent.com

Software Engineer

Jul 2013 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Worked as a full stack developer with a diverse team in an Agile setting, with bi-weekly releases
Robust software design in MVC (Model-View-Controller) frameworks
Well versed with latest industry practices, such as
scalable web architectures (REST APIs)
test driven development (PHPUnit - PHP unit tests framework)
continuous integration and deployment (jenkins)
dependency managements (composer, npm etc.)
parallel processing and load balancing (Gearman)
Back-end: Symfony (PHP MVC framework)
Front-end: AngularJS (JavaScript MVC framework)
Database: MySQL, Doctrine (ORM)
HTML5, CSS3, Sass