Sumit K
Engineering Manager at Headout
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSumit K is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building data-driven products and scaling teams across startups and growth-stage companies from Bengaluru. He has led large data engineering efforts—integrating 100+ sources and handling tens of terabytes—to improve experiences for millions of users at Postman and Apollo.io while delivering measurable outcomes like 20x faster ticket resolution and 75% infrastructure cost savings. Sumit blends product strategy with hands-on execution, launching multiple major products and automations that cut customer turnaround from weeks to minutes and halved bounce rates for engagement platforms. He’s comfortable across infrastructure migrations, data pipelines, and back-end API work (including contributions to an open-source Python MailChimp client), and he champions systems that make data reliable, auditable, and fast. As a builder-founder he launched several micro-ventures, applying SSO, payments and referral flows to validate business models iteratively. Colleagues know him for turning complex, multi-quarter initiatives into sprint-sized wins through structured processes and pragmatic leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Guru Ghasidas University
Stackoverflow
2,240reputation
336kreached
35answers
5questions
elasticsearch
top-5%
datetime
top-5%
Github Skills (15)
api10
python10
apidoc10
software-design9
git9
elasticsearch9
datetime9
lucene6
datetime-format6
indexing6
mongodb6
amazon-web-services6
iso6
timestamp6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
VingtCinq/python-mailchimp
May 2016 - May 2016
Python client for v3 of MailChimp API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a Python client for the MailChimp API. Their work involved implementing features such as support for merge fields, pagination in lists, and updating category features. Additionally, the user addressed version changes and made modifications to the project's setup configurations. The commits demonstrate the user's focus on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the API client.
apipythonpython-clientmailchimp-apimailchimp
sumitkumar1209/superlanceadds
Jul 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
onsadd-onsaddonsupervisor
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.