About

Sumant Srivastava is a seasoned technologist with 18 years of experience in leading the development of SaaS products and managing large technical teams. He is currently the Head of Engineering at Leoforce, where he leads a team of around 100 engineers. Sumant is a firm believer in leading with context and is passionate about building great products that delight users. He invests in the growth of team members and promotes a culture of high performance. Sumant has architected topics around scientific disciplines such as machine learning, wisdom of crowd, cloud, scalable distributed systems, graphs, pattern recognition, and data science. He has extensive experience in enterprise SDLC, compliance (ISMS, GDPR), and topics around product management and project management like developing product and technical roadmaps, project planning, requirement engineering, risk management, and more. Sumant's past experience includes working as a Director of Engineering and Senior Technical Architect at Leoforce. He played a key role in developing Arya, a flagship product of Leoforce. Arya is a virtual recruiting robot that helps recruiters source the best profiles for a job with zero human intervention. It heavily relies on next-gen technologies such as machine learning, big data, NLP, data mining, predictive analytics, pattern recognition, and statistical learning. Sumant holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Information Technology from hbti, Kanpur, and completed his higher secondary education from W H Smith Memorial School, Varanasi. He has a diverse tech stack that includes skills such as senior software engineering, product management, ML, data science, integration, NLP, and big data. Sumant has 18.88 years of relevant experience in the industry and has a deep understanding of business rules, B2B integration, talent acquisition, and talent management domains. He is a self-driven technologist who is always looking for ways to improve and innovate.