About

Umesh Bude is an accomplished and result-oriented Engineering Leader with over 18 years of experience in building highly scalable, available, and secure software applications and platforms in B2B and B2C domains. He is currently the SVP and Head of Engineering & Product at Unacademy, where he leads engineering teams and builds iconic education products in a hyper-growth environment. Umesh is technically hands-on in building 0-1 products as well as experience in scaling products and platforms. He is passionate about building great teams and solving unsolved problems using technology. His key expertise lies in e-Commerce, EduTech, Digital Transformation, CDN, Team Building and Leadership, Project Management, Agile Product Development, Distributed Systems, Web Application Security, End to End Architecture, design and development, SOA/Microservices, Design Patterns, Scrum and Agile development, Lean UX, Object-Oriented Design and Development, Data Structures, and Algorithms. Umesh has a strong technical skillset that includes Java, JEE, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, Oracle DB, Postgres, Mongo DB, Cassandra, Redis, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, ELK Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, and Kibana), HDFC, Spark, Docker, Google Analytics, AngularJS, ReactJS, and AWS. Prior to his current role, Umesh served as VP and Head of Engineering at Unacademy and CTO for OYO Vacation Homes, where he built product and platforms in three domains: Demand Technology (Websites, OTA Channel integrations), Supply Technology (Lead Generation, Lead Management, Ordering, Supply onboarding), and Ops (Remote check-in and checkouts with smart locks, property management services, Homeowner portal/app). Umesh holds a BE degree from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. He is a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in SQL, AWS, Web, Spark, Redis, Docker, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Kafka, Spring, Microservices, Search, Postgres, Java, ReactJS, AngularJS, and product management.