Praveen Kumar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable infrastructure software.
Proficient in Generative AI and Conversational AI.
Strong leadership in engineering management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a focus on scalable software solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementGenerative AiLeadershipJavaMicroservicesDistributed SystemsAwsSoftware DevelopmentC++

Other Skills

ASP.NETASP.NET MVCAWS Data Migration ServiceAWS Elasticache RedisAgentic AIAlgorithmsAmazon EC2Amazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentAngularAngular 2AngularJSApache KafkaAugmented Reality

About

Building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems in Agile environment. Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.

Experience

9 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

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3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Generative AI | Agentic AI | Conversational AI

Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipGenerative AIAgentic AIAmazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft Azure+2

Engineering Manager

Jul 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Amazon Web Services (AWS)LeadershipDatadogCommunicationJavaSpring Boot+1

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

◦ Worked primarily in credit decision and ML engineering team aiming at providing loans to the
unprivileged sections based upon financial,bureau and alternate data.
◦ Developed multiple micro-services such as Income Service, Bureau Service, Eligible Service, Offer Service
and Scoring Service using Spring cloud in SpringBoot framework.
◦ Implemented fraud check automation such as PAN verification, bank account verification and fuzzy name
and address matching across different identity proofs.
◦ Used AWS Data Migration Service to migrate relevant tables from multiple databases across different
Microservices at single place for performing analytics.
◦ Implemented caching infrastructure throughout the system using AWS Elasticache Redis for better
performance.

CommunicationTechnical Leadership

Walmart global tech

Senior Software Engineer - IV

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area · Remote

LeadershipMicroservicesApache KafkaCommunicationDistributed SystemsSpring Boot+2

Finflux

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – Dec 2018 · 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

◦ Primarily worked on building software product and application solving challenges in retail lending like
micro-credit, SME and trade financing offerings.
◦ Created risk related modules and integrated the application with different credit bueau providers like
equifax, highmark and cibil.
◦ Worked on building vendor managemnt portal for NBFC in Angular using Typescript.
◦ Implemented security features enhancement by blocking concurrent login session, clickjacking and
restricting sql injection.
◦ Created several Rest based web Apis using Java, J2EE and Spring framework. The Apis were consumed
on the frontend side using Javascript and AngularJs

Communication

Edelweiss - private wealth

Software Engineer

Jun 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

◦ Built a simple and powerful trading platform where customers can trade in Indian
Share market in both NSE and BSE exchanges. The main components are portfolio creation, Equity and
MF recommendation, research articles, and portfolio management along with generating reports.
◦ Was also involved in developing a web portal where a corporate can assign the esops to their employees
while creating different schemes associated with individual employee.
◦ Implemented fund allocation strategies considering different vesting, expiry and lapse schedules.◦ Built the backend using Java technologies and frontend using Javascript and Angular 2 framework.

Smu - singapore management university

Software Engineer Intern

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Singapore

 Simulated Wi-Fi mesh network in NS-3, a discrete-event computer network simulator (written in C++) to study the variation of wireless signal’s RSSI with the user’s random mobility pattern.
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 Developed the basic APIs for the upper layers of BLE protocol stack including GATT, GAP layers in NS3 using C++.
 Developed an android application which lets the user to scan for estimate BLE beacons with smartphone after setting the duty cycle and scan interval of the phone’s Bluetooth and save the essential data in a log file.