Vishal Kumar
Director Of Engineering at Independent Engineering Consultant
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Kumar is a strategy-minded Director of Engineering based in New York with 12+ years of hands-on experience and a 15+-year trajectory shipping enterprise software across full-stack domains. He has progressed through technical and customer-facing roles at Bug Labs—from Sales Engineering Lead to Senior Solutions Architect to Director of Engineering—while simultaneously serving as an independent CTO, demonstrating both product empathy and organizational leadership. Trained as an electrical engineer at Columbia (BS/MS), he blends deep technical rigor with business-facing delivery, often translating complex requirements into scalable implementations. A former professional musician, he brings creative problem-solving and disciplined collaboration to engineering teams, with a track record of sustaining long-term initiatives and consulting across industries.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Western Reserve AcademyMaster of Science - MS Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
French
Github Skills (33)
api10
geckoboard10
mysql9
javascript9
dashboard9
xml-to-json9
rest9
nodejs9
iot9
graphql8
cockpit8
koa8
jamstack8
content-management8
typescript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
buglabs/openxc-android
Dec 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
vehiclevehicle-dataandroid-libraryandroid
buglabs/dweetproio-client
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
js-clientdweetnode-jsjavascriptnodejs
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