Puneet Kumar

About Puneet Kumar

Seasoned Engineering Executive specializing in building and scaling global technology hubs (GCCs) and high-throughput platforms for TravelTech, FinTech, and SaaS. My passion lies in transforming technical vision into business outcomes: scaling systems to 12M+ daily requests, reducing cloud costs by 90%, and building teams from 0 to 70+.Key Tech highlights include- Setting up and scaling Global Capability Center (GCCs) from the ground up to 70+ engineers - Driving cloud transformations and reducing infrastructure costs up to 90%- Scaling of web services supporting 2k concurrent requests per secondKey Delivery highlights include- Owned delivery across portfolio of 20+ enterprise programs, 70+ team size- Salvaged and steered tough global programs through governance and stakeholders satisfaction- Identified opportunities and scaled engagement expansion up to 2x- Led end to end cloud transformation from primarily on-prem infrastructure to public cloud, improving uptime by 25%+ and 1/3rd cost reduction. Key Startup highlights include- Led multiple early stage startups from 0 -> 1- Solved difficult hiring challenges and twice built engineering teams from scratch.Key Tech stack- MERN, MEAN, LAMP - REST - Cloud (AWS)- Containerization - Mobile (Android, iOS)Currently focused on leveraging Generative AI to re-imagine engineering productivity and user experiences.Open to connecting about leadership opportunities in platform engineering, site expansion, or strategic technology roles.

Experience

1. CTO - Information Technology

   Dyninno Group

   Feb 2022 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Built and led cross-cultural engineering teams across Eastern Europe and India, improving collaboration and gaining charge of 2 additional global teams.• Led HR to onboard a development team for the nascent NDC standard, facilitated a satellite office and resolved partner bottlenecks to achieve on-time delivery within 1 year and now processing 500 tickets daily.• Developed and validated a configurable cross-booking PoC for flights across PCCs, successfully driving daily topline revenue growth and achieving key business objectives.• Led the launch of a 3-month hybrid sales channel, reusing D2C product code to address lost opportunities and enable B2C conversions, ultimately creating a key sales channel with both self serve & assisted options.• Architected and implemented a cost-optimization solution for a 600M+ request service, reducing Kubernetes pod footprint by 93% and slashing cloud costs.• Scaled flight engine to support 12.5 million requests/day (12x increase) by rewriting microservices in GoLang and implementing Bloom filters, overcoming latency and NodeJS concurrency challenges to enable market expansion.• Leveraged Generative AI and ChatGPT to optimize lead generation pages with SEO keywords, achieving increased engagement in the first month.

Education

• Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU

  MBA-IT, Information Technology

  2006 — 2008

• NIIT Institute

  GNIIT, Computer Science

  1995 — 1998

Skills

• Software Development
• Python
• Javascript
• Cvs
• Team Management
• Internet
• Web Development
• Web 2.0
• Html
• Ajax
• Object Oriented Design
• Yui
• Perl
• Html + Css
• Css
• Search
• Agile Methodologies
• Web Applications
• Team Building
• Php
• Design Patterns
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Jira
• Lamp
• Cloud Computing
• Software Project Management
• Subversion
• Mysql
• Team Leadership
• Testing
• Apache
• Mercurial
• Linux
• Xml
• Web Services
• Performance Engineering