Tharun Kumar Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As an Innovation Partner at Koch, I focus on embedding innovation and experimentation into daily operations, transforming one-time events into a continuous culture of innovation. By building cross-functional teams, fostering strategic execution, and integrating key capabilities like design thinking and agile methodologies, I ensure employees have clear guidance on innovation processes. I support leaders to become catalysts for their teams' creative solutions and drive value creation through measurable, data-backed experimentation.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Founding Coach, I lead and mentor a team of 6 Experimentation Coaches across India and Singapore, focusing on training and nurturing them to effectively support others. In my role as a coach, I consult with Experiment Owners, offering the guidance and support needed to ensure their experiments are successful. I engage with Experiment Contributors as needed, providing expertise and assistance. I also facilitate the framing and execution of experiments, connecting Experiment Owners with the necessary resources to develop or extend their initiatives. I apply PBM principles, design thinking, and lean startup methodologies to understand opportunities and design impactful experiments.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As a Product Owner responsible for vulnerability management and patching of over 12,000 Windows and Linux servers across Koch's various infrastructures, I led initiatives that significantly increased efficiency and cost savings. I lead the team developing an automated patching process, cutting down manual work by 80%, saving the equivalent of 2 full-time employees, and generating $500K in annual savings. Additionally, I introduced an open-source Linux management tool, which allows for managing multiple Linux distributions at zero cost, and reducing manual effort to just 20%. I also implemented a complex, independent EC2 instance automation, saving $60K annually in direct costs and making the automation available to other IT teams as needed.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Monitoring a collective of MuleSoft & AWS integrations and being the first level of support for the integrations and user apps. This role is a combination of Dev/BSA/ASA which requires working on having broad understanding of overall systems and processes, acting as a bridge between business and technical teams to solve challenges and pinpoint areas that could be more efficient and automated to reduce manual efforts.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Supported more than 120,000 colleagues collectively across 14 Koch subsidiaries, with resolving their Application, Windows OS, Hardware, and Network account related issues. Collaborated with Level 2 team to resolve the issues that required technical supervision and actively created knowledge bases for the problems.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

BartO is a complete solution for buyers and sellers of pre-owned products to address issues like UPI scams, fake products, spam calls, and logistical challenges.Find more at BartO.in

Had amazing learning experience featuring 7 weeks of live talks by YC partners, founder stories by YC alumni, in-person meetups at YC offices all over the world, co-founder matching, and the largest community of startup founders on the internet. Pivoted BartO from an online barter system to a complete pre-owned marketplace.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Unileaf is a company with humble beginnings originating in the suburbs of Odisha that leverage technology to address day-to-day business challenges. It functions as a corporation for a range of business verticals. Know more at Unileaf.co

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Was part of Insurjo W21 by The Product Folks, a 3-month India's First & Only Product Manager program where we learned Product skills by building our own idea into reality and teardown sessions on existing products under the guidance of Product Managers from hottest startups and established companies around the world.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Was part of a council of Fellows who helped Tortoise advance the beta version of Tortoise to the launch version through analysis, user testing, user interviews and final reports over 6+ weeks of learning and execution.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Carried out installations, maintenance, configuration and support of servers globally for HPE ProLiant Servers(ML,DL,SL, XL, Blade series), iLO Amplifier Pack, and HPE Server Management Tools. The role also involved troubleshooting server hardware and diagnose issues associated with storage and RAID configurations.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Supported California State University to ensure smooth Database cloning. The role involved tracking of recurring clones and updating the tickets with logs, next run times and tracking/submitting reports with the client on a daily basis.

Chennai Area, India

At Concentrix I made strategies for typical IT infrastructure using Veritas Backup Exec, a data protection software designed for physical, virtual environments, and public cloud services to backup, protect and restore the data at crucial times.

Chennai Area, India

Learned about Business Incorporation for a wide range of business entities, licenses, registrations, legal and compliance.