Kumar Gkk

About Kumar Gkk

Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience driving large-scale SaaS, cloud, and marketplace platform development. Proven track record in building and scaling high-performing global teams (40+ engineers), influencing product strategy, and delivering measurable business impact including 20–30% revenue uplift and double-digit efficiency gains. Skilled in cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, DevSecOps, and adoption of AI/LLM-driven practices to improve engineering productivity. Adept at partnering with product and executive leadership to define technology roadmaps, manage multi-million-dollar budgets, and align engineering outcomes with customer success. Recognized for fostering innovation, enabling organizational scale, and building customer-first engineering cultures.Specialties- Strong experience in having built, operated, and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems along with on-prem to cloud migration solutions- Work experience with storage, virtualization and/or cloud technologies (Azure, AWS and GCP)- Sound knowledge in Java, Go, Scala, Python, NoSQL, RDBMS, Microservices, Kubernetes, docker, Kafka, elastic search, Front end technologies (Angular and React)- Experience on AI/ML, REST Assured, Selenium, Cucumber frameworks, Databases, APIs (REST/SOAP), Continuous Delivery concepts (CI & CD), and exposure to tools such as Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, GIT- Solid software development fundamentals (Data Structures, algorithms, problem solving, OO Design, and system architecture) with specialization on end-to-end software development using modern SaaS / cloud deployments with a DevOps mindset.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oracle

   Jun 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Andhra University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  2000 — 2002