Harendra Kumar
Executive Director @ JPMorganChase | Driving High-Performing Global Teams | Ex Groupon, Amazon, Intuit
- Role
- Executive Director (Principal Engineer) at JPMorganChase
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Harendra Kumar
Engineering Director with 20+ years of experience leading global technology teams and delivering high-scale e-commerce and platform solutions. I specialize in driving organizational growth, cloud transformation, and operational excellence across distributed systems and payments platforms that serve millions of customers worldwide.Currently at Groupon, I am leading Core Applications Platform and Payments org (20+ engineers) powering checkout, payments, and ads serving millions of global users. My focus is driving technology strategy, cloud transformation (40+ service, AWS, GCP) and improving platform efficiency. Integrated new fraud and payment solutions, and delivered multi-million-dollar savings through platform modernization, cloud cost optimization,A strong believer in people-first leadership, I focus on scaling high-performing teams, mentoring future leaders, and fostering a culture of innovation, empathy, and accountability. I’m passionate about using technology to drive measurable business outcomes while maintaining a relentless focus on reliability, simplicity, and customer experience. Core Strengths:Leadership & Strategy: Org Scaling, People Management, Stakeholder Collaboration, Agile Execution, Hiring & DevelopmentTechnology & Architecture: AWS, GCP, Load Balancer, Docker, Kubernetes, ActiveMQ, ElasticSearch, Redis, Splunk, ELK, Wavefront, Grafana, MySQL, Postgres, REST, Microservices, Distributed Systems Operational Impact: Cost Optimization, Reliability Engineering, Performance Tuning, Payments, Fraud, Security
Experience
Executive Director (Principal Engineer)
Jan 2026 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Education
Army Institute of Technology, Pune
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
1997 — 2001
Kendriya Vidyalaya Danapur Cantt, Patna
10+2, Science
1994 — 1996
Skills
- Design Patterns
- Agile Methodologies
- Software Development
- Vxworks
- Java
- Javascript
- C++
- Css
- Xml
- Software Design
- Object Oriented Design
- Image Processing
- C
- Stl
- Requirements Analysis
- Linux
- Unix
- Operating Systems
- Dom
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