About

Jitendra Kumar is a seasoned entrepreneur and technology leader with 20+ years of experience in EdTech, Gaming, E-commerce, and AdTech spaces. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of HappyCredit, a startup that aims to make online shopping delightful for 500 million Bharat users with rewards, credit, and shopping inspiration. Jitendra's mission is to drive massive impact by transforming online shopping and financial liquidity for a huge audience. Prior to founding HappyCredit, Jitendra was the Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Simplilearn, a leading online education platform. He built, led, and mentored engineering, growth hack, SEO, and analytics teams to deliver multiple high-performance cutting-edge web and mobile applications. He also executed business-aligned technology vision and innovation initiatives, and built and led a growth team to achieve higher revenue targets. Jitendra is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, where he earned his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. He also completed his Pre-doctoral studies in Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Jitendra's tech stack includes Spring, Java, Spring Boot, Senior Software Engineer, SQL, Microservices, Kafka, Python, Mobile, Web, test, ML, Elastic Search, DevOps, Postgres, and Software Engineer. Jitendra is actively hiring and building a world-class remote team for the foreseeable future with very attractive compensation and benefits. He is well-funded and backed by marquee India and US-based investors. Jitendra's leadership and entrepreneurial skills make him a valuable asset to any organization, and his passion for transforming the online shopping experience is bound to make HappyCredit a success.