Sunil Kumar Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Co-Founder & Vice President of Engineering for Prakya, I am passionate about building innovative solutions that solve complex problems while maintaining a strong customer-centric approach. With close to a decade of experience leading high performing software engineering teams, I thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments where creativity and innovation are encouraged.I led the building of our SaaS platform from “0 to 1”. Successfully launching our MVP in just 7 months and the beta version in less than a year with a team of just 6 engineers. As a result, Prakya is now available as a one-stop solution for all project management needs for teams of any size.Apart from Engineering, I also handle the entire operations of our India office. In this role, I have been responsible for managing and delivering products and services for our customers. I take pride in my ability to drive results and my relentless pursuit of excellence in everything I do.At our startup, I am focused on developing and executing strategic plans that align with business goals and deliver high-quality, scalable software products. I am experienced in agile methodologies, and I believe in fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.As a part of our growth strategy, I have been building an engineering team in India. I am excited to be leading this initiative and am committed to ensuring that our team is set up for success. I have a strong track record of building and nurturing high-performing teams, and I am confident that we will achieve great things together.My leadership style is grounded in collaboration, transparency, and empathy. I prioritize building strong relationships with team members, stakeholders, and customers to foster atmost trust.As a startup leader and co-founder, I am passionate about our mission and committed to helping our startup grow and succeed in a highly competitive industry.

Bengaluru Area, India

Spear-headed the Product Development & Delivery efforts by managing a team of Technical Leads & Senior Software Engineers, Design & Architecture, resource planning and technical guidance.𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐢𝐳𝐞 15 - 20𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 - To support and manage over a million plus users and devices, I spearheaded the revitalization of existing Enterprise services (25 plus services, across various regions and availability zones). Additionally led the successful development and deployment of 3 new services which were greenfield projects that helped in scaling services to handle millions of users and devices.𝗼 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 & 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 - Service to manage enterprise users and device information based on anonymised identities and is designed to handle millions of users & devices.𝗼 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫-𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 - Service to manage and handle real-time service subscriptions and configurations for end-users.𝗼 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 - Push based real-time service, to deliver the most specific configuration updates, access control to Client software running on millions of iOS, Android & Windows based devices.𝗼 Cost Reduction: Leveraged cutting edge open-source technologies and frameworks like REDIS, MySQL, Apache Ignite & Kafka for scaling the performance of existing services and thereby achieving significant cost-reduction.𝗼 Evaluated new technologies and open-source tools for new business requirements. Spend time in hands-on development, unit testing & Technical documentation on need basis.𝗼 Engage periodically with Product Management and Engineering leads to deliver project goals and road map.𝗼 Discuss and plan testing efforts with Quality Assurance teams, deployment strategy with Operations team ensuring SOX compliance.𝗼 Migrated legacy monolithic services into microservices architecture thereby ensuring higher productivity, predictable releases with uber quality.

Bengaluru Area, India

As a Principal Engineer, I was the Product Delivery Lead for iPass Platform services. I led a team of 6-10 Software Engineers, driving the development and deployment of innovative services. I provided technical guidance, architectural inputs, performed regular maintenance releases, and managed release schedules to ensure timely product deployments.𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐢𝐳𝐞 6 - 10𝗼 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐠 𝐔𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 - Developed as a microservice, this service enables Client Mobile/Desktop applications (millions of devices) to collect logs automatically and upload them to AWS S3 for further analysis and reporting. This service processed an average of 100K requestsevery day and collected logs data up to 300GB/day.𝗼 𝐔𝐑𝐋 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 - Designed, developed new service following the Serverless Architecture approach in AWS using API Gateway, Lambda functions and DynamoDB. This service were used by Customers who prefer shortened URLs (over long service activation URLs) and distribute the shortened URLs via SMS/Twitter advertising campaigns.𝗼 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐌 integration and Single Sign On (SSO) support for Enterprise customers for easy access of iPass Client applications.𝗼 Embraced AWS Cloud solutions for new services.𝗼 Handled the release manager responsibilities to ensure product components are released on-time. 𝗼 Continuous engagement with Product Manager, Architects and cross Team Leads to gather business requirements and new features and translating the same into technical specifications.𝗼 Other responsibilities include handling system design and architecture, personnel actions for team members, conducting yearly performance appraisals for the team, suggesting performance improvement plans, final say in conflict resolution and hiring on need basis.𝗼 Solve customer issues and real time production issues on need basis.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Client Applications - A͟n͟d͟r͟o͟i͟d͟ ͟a͟n͟d͟ ͟M͟i͟c͟r͟o͟s͟o͟f͟t͟ Windows Platforms𝗼 Designed and implemented 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 framework for core moving parts of Android application which improved the application performance multifold and eliminated application 'not responding' scenarios, effective battery utilization and reduced network calls. 𝗼 Designed and developed core modules for the iPass Open Mobile Client software which includes - Authentication, Data collection services, Analytics, User interface elements for Android and Windows platform. 𝗼 Redesigned and re-wrote complete authentication modules which increased the connection success rates tremendously thereby increasing revenues.𝗼 Implemented the core diagnostics framework module based on Composite design pattern that gathers the application diagnostic information.𝗼 Drafting high-level and low-level design documents for new feature development and also during refactoring cycles.𝗼 Hands-on design and architecture, prototyping, development and testing of components.𝗼 Provide technical guidance and mentoring for team members.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Client Applications - Microsoft Windows Platform 𝗼 Contributed to development of multiple features like Dial-up API integration, WiFi connection modules, Software quality metrics which had direct impact on revenues.𝗼 Worked mostly on the application service layer which was multi-threaded that handled the core connection and authentication modules using Generic Interface Specification.𝗼 Redesigned & rewrote several modules of codebase on various occasions to enhance application performance, code modularity and long term maintainability.𝗼 All features where developed using C# along with WPF & WCF, along with interops to use legacy libraries written in C++ language.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Client Applications - Microsoft Windows Platform * Integrated couple of Wireless 802.1x protocols like PEAP-GTC, PEAP-MSCHAPv2 and EAP-TLS to the main application using native Microsoft WLAN APIs.* Worked primarily on the iPass Client software development for the Microsoft Windows platform using VC++, MFC, C# with frameworks WCF & WPF.* Developed stand-alone applications and integrated 3rd party plugin libraries to enhance the product functionality and feature set.* Develop, unit test and support QA for testing effort on some of the core features of the product.

Bengaluru Area, India

𝗼 Worked on legacy Client Applications for Windows Platform for Microsoft Windows family of Operating Systems.𝗼 Full development life cycle of multiple products from prototyping, implementation and deployment using VC++, MFC & COM, C# .NET and Windows services.

Bangalore, India

Joined as fresher and learnt on-the-job VC++/MFC programming, Object Oriented design and RDBMS.𝗼 Worked on developing end-to-end CAD, CAM and CNC modules for industrial automation software,𝗼 Developed add-on modules like Email/SMS notifications for CNC shop-floor factory automation software.𝗼 Developed new Windows based applications and services for a larger part of project involving TCP/IP Socket communications.𝗼 Enhanced CAD/CAM 3D simulation and NC program generation products using OpenGL and in-house geometry libraries.𝗼 Technology stack - VC++, MFC, C# .NET and Windows system services.

Masters, Software Systems, 8 Cgpa

Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, conducts off-campus degree programs as a means of continuing education.

Be, Mechanical Engineering, Distinction 76.3%

Elementary Education