About

Kunal Kumar is an accomplished Head of Engineering with extensive experience in leadership roles, product building, technology, and process strategies. He is well-versed in leading large, distributed cross-functional product teams across geography. Kunal has several years of experience in hands-on architecture, design, and development of multiple software technologies. He possesses strong analytical and algorithmic skills. Kunal has proven leadership in building and sustaining high-performing teams, building scalable platforms, improving architecture and design, and building solutions for complex engineering problems. He has built and led engineering & product organizations consisting of software developers, QA, Product & Program Management, UX, Data Science, Data Analysts, Technical operations, and DevOps. Kunal has also built a system handling more than a million events/sec and terabytes of data per day. Kunal has an empowering approach that creates a culture of innovation and ownership with engineering excellence. He specializes in scalable product development, SaaS, data platforms, AI/ML, data-driven applications, business intelligence, search, consumer internet, product vision, technology strategy, product management, web technologies, building and leading high performing organizations, solving complex engineering problems, and modernizing monolithic service. Kunal is currently working as an Associate Vice President of Engineering at Fareye. Before joining Fareye, he worked as a Software Development Manager at Amazon and as a General Manager Engineering at Power2SME. At Power2SME, he looked after development, QA, IT&DevOps team and built a strong team of more than 30 people in dev, QA, and DevOps. Kunal holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT and an MBA from Sunstone Business School, where he studied Marketing, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Restructuring, Technology, and Finance. Kunal has a diverse tech stack that includes integration, senior software engineer, QA, DevOps, AI, product manager, ML, data scientist, search, web, and software engineer. Kunal has 17.44 years of relevant experience in the industry.