Upendra Naik
Independent Consultant at Aaida Technology Solutions
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolUpendra Naik is an independent consultant and senior product & engineering leader with 9 years of recent experience—and a long technical career spanning R&D, product, and services leadership—designing and shipping cloud-native, AI-enabled products. He has led high-performance teams from ideation to launch across EdTech, eCommerce, logistics and enterprise domains, combining hands-on architecture (MERN, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka) with AI/ML and NLP-driven product strategy. As VP of Engineering at Learning Matters he drove voice-AI and platform initiatives (Tara Voice AI, Konnect LMS) and performed tech due diligence for investors, demonstrating both product vision and commercialization focus. His background ranges from deep R&D and PMO practices to field-facing professional services, giving him a rare fluency in customer-driven delivery and operational scaling. Colleagues describe him as a strategic problem-solver and strong communicator who bridges people, process and technology to reduce time-to-value. Based in Bengaluru, he blends legacy enterprise system experience with modern cloud/DevOps practices, often translating research-level AI concepts into production-ready features.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Sc.Tech.) Computer Technology (Software and Hardware), Bachelor of Technology (B.Sc.Tech.) Computer Technology (Software and Hardware) at University of MumbaiBachelor of Science Electronics , Bachelor of Science Electronics at Savitribai Phule Pune University
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Github Skills (13)
spring-boot1
mean-stack1
mongoose1
kafka1
spring1
expressjs1
mongodb1
nodejs1
full-stack1
authentication1
java1
jwt-authentication1
jwt1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
usnaik/aaida-portal
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
usnaik/docker-react
Apr 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:28 PRs, 35 pushes, 20 branches in 5 years 2 months
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