Keerthana Kumar
Head Of Engineering, Stripe Capital
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKeerthana Kumar is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams, currently leading Engineering for Capital & Issuing at Stripe in San Francisco. She has progressed through multiple senior roles at Stripe—owning issuing, embedded finance, and capital products—after senior leadership at GitHub and engineering roles at Microsoft, bringing deep domain expertise in fintech and developer tools. Known for an empathetic, diversity-focused management style, she combines people-first leadership with a track record of delivering complex, customer-facing financial products. She has formal leadership training from Stanford LEAD, Harvard Business School Online, and a certificate in engineering leadership from the University of Washington. Beyond org building, Keerthana has a research background from UT Austin and early contributions to academic tooling, reflecting a blend of rigorous technical grounding and product execution. Colleagues describe her as a builder who fosters high-performing, inclusive teams that ship reliable systems at scale.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford LEAD Program, Stanford LEAD Program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science Computer Science Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Biological Sciences at The University of Texas at AustinCertificate in Engineering Leadership, Certificate in Engineering Leadership at University of WashingtonCertificate Programs, Certificate Programs at Harvard Business School Online
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (24)
windows10
cicd10
azure-devops10
azure-pipelines10
azure10
visualization5
javascript4
extraction4
nodejs4
analytics4
sdk3
metadata3
blob-storage2
azure-functions2
typescript2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
abhranildas/artarium
Mar 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 10 comments, 4 issues in 4 years 8 months
keerthanakumar/keerthanakumar.github.io
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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