Suresh Kumar

About Suresh Kumar

Seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience in Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Project Management across domains such as Digital content publishing, Coupon website aggregation, Cloud Data Management, Enterprise storage & Banking/Finance- Passionate about building great teams and products and can provide hands-on leadership by blending my technical and management expertise- Proven experience in building and scaling the engineering team from the ground up, driving product adoption and revenue growth by 100%- Proven track record of designing and building highly scalable, performant, reliant web applications and websites at suboptimal cost using distributed system architecture with a modern cloud-native tech stack- Successfully led & delivered 1.0 product from scratch, integration of enterprise applications, monolith application to microservices architecture, scalable product platform, website tech migration & distributed cloud-native backend services, and embracing secure software development lifecycle- Have always enjoyed the stakeholder partnership with Product, Product Marketing, User experience, Design, IT, Business Analytics, Sales, Customer support, and Operations teams in building the roadmap, prioritizing the high-impact business use cases, and building robust engineering infrastructure to catalyze the faster GoToMarket strategy- Advocated and practiced values such as incessant learning, the quest for continuous improvement, the attitude of never settling down for mediocrity and pushing boundaries, delivering business outcomes, taking calculated risks, handling difficult situations with a calm and composed mind, embracing change, and being adaptive. Professional Skills:Technical Leadership in S/W Engineering Architecture & Development | Project Management| SDLC | Strategic thinking & planning | Agile Development | Stakeholder partnership | Problem solving | Decision making in Technology, People & Execution | Emotional Intelligence | Vendor Management | Leading cross-functional teams across geo’s | Budgeting & Forecasting Areas of Expertise/Tech stack:Fullstack, ReactJS/AngularJS, NodeJS, VueJS, Federated GraphQL, RESTful APIs, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Javascript, Typescript, Contentstack, AWS Redshift, Kinesis, Elastic Search, Kibana, Prometheus, DataDog, A/B testing with Optimizely/Unleash, Cloudflare, Python, Java/J2EE, Perl, Spring, Hibernate, Docker, Kubernetes, Web Technologies, scalable distributed systems in AWS/GCP Cloud, Apache Spark, Scala, and Gitlab/Github

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   RingCentral

   Jun 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading a 42-member strong engineering organization for RingCX (CCaaS) across multiple strategic tracks, managing EM\'s/Sr. EM\'s, Tech Leads, Staff Engineers, and Architects, and driving platform scale, reliability, and execution excellence- Built the Digital Experience engineering team in India for RingCX from ground-up (13 members), including Staff Engineers, EMs, Tech Leads, FE, BE, FS, and AQA, supporting a $10M+ revenue Digital Experience platform with strong ownership and execution rigor- Leading cross-geography collaboration across engineering teams in the US, Europe (France), China, and India, enabling architectural alignment, shared ownership, and predictable delivery at scale- Driving platform redesign and architecture modernization to enable Outbound Dialer and AI-ready capabilities, unlocking incremental revenue growth opportunities for RingCX- Built and scaled RingCentral Video & Events engineering teams from the ground up (22 members), comprising Frontend, Backend, Full-Stack, and AQA engineers, delivering cloud-native collaboration and large-scale virtual events capabilities.

Education

• Loyola College

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry