Sandeep Kumar is an engineering manager with over a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems and product integrations across startups and large tech companies. He has led teams at Stripe, Meta, Grab, Rokt and others, with deep expertise in distributed systems, payments, identity/verification, and partner integrations. Known for hiring and growing teams from the ground up, he helped stand up Alexa Smart Properties in India and built core backend services as a founding engineer at Verloop.io. He combines hands-on architecture and coding experience (Python, service-oriented design, messaging systems) with product-minded leadership and operational rigor. A former AI researcher with an MS from IIT Madras and a Management Essentials certificate from Harvard Business School Online, he brings a research-informed approach to practical engineering problems. Based in Bengaluru, he favors solving customer problems through measurable, scalable systems rather than flashy architectures.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Management Essentials, Certificate Management Essentials at Harvard Business School Online
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science & Engineering at Bipin Tripathi Kumaon Institute Of Technology
XII CBSE, XII CBSE at Amtuls Public School, Nainital
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
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