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title: "Kamlesh Kumar - Senior Director of Engineering ( R&D ) in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Kamlesh Kumar, Product Engineering | GCC Leadership | Supply Chain | Fintech | Angel Investor based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and grok."
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# Kamlesh Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Product Engineering \| GCC Leadership \| Supply Chain \| Fintech \| Angel Investor

## About

Engineering executive with 27 years of experience building, scaling, and transforming global product engineering organizations across Supply Chain, Corporate Banking, Healthcare, and enterprise technology\. I have built engineering organizations and capabilities from the ground up, launched a profitable start\-up from scratch, and led large global engineering organizations\. I have also transformed established teams by creating cultures of innovation, accountability, quality, and high performance\. I bring a strong track record of improving execution and scaling without compromising quality or customer experience—improving release velocity by 25–30%, reducing time\-to\-market by 40–50%, and developing leaders for larger responsibilities, while maintaining high engagement and attrition below 10%\. My career has been shaped by increasing responsibilities and internal growth, reflecting a consistent track record of delivering results and earning trust\. I believe great engineering leadership is about building strong organizations, growing great leaders, creating happy customers, and delivering sustainable business results\. Recipient of multiple Leadership and Excellence Awards\. Build from zero\. Transform what exists\. Scale with discipline\. Develop leaders\. Deliver outcomes\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

grok

windsurf

Otter\.ai

Roo Code

## Work experience

Senior Director of Engineering \( R&D \) at Manhattan Associates, Jan 2024 \- Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Leading multiple engineering teams for Manhattan’s flagship cloud\-native Supply Chain suite products —Manhattan Active Warehouse Management \(MAWM\), Slotting, Labor Management and YMS

Director of Engineering \( R&D \) at Manhattan Associates, Apr 2020 \- Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Director & Head of Engineering \- Fusion Corporate Channels at Finastra, Jan 2019 \- Mar 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore, Finastra is the third largest Fintech company in the world after combining the forces of Misys and D\+H Head of Engineering for Fusion Corporate Channels Banking product covering Cash & Payments , Trade , FSCM, Lending and Treasury\. Responsible for current product enhancements and transformation into next generation Corporate Channels product on Cloud using Angular & Microservices Architecture \. Awarded “Finastra CEO Leadership Award 2019”, the highest level of recognition at Finastra\.

Senior Engineering Manager at Finastra, Apr 2016 \- Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Architect and Head of Engineering \- Clinakos at Lumbini Software, Apr 2013 \- Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Architected and led the development of Clinakos \( www\.clinakos\.com \), a flagship Precision Medicine platform,successfully deployed in production for initial customers\. Product is now deployed across leading healthcare providers\.

Founder & Director at Lumbini Software, Sep 2011 \- Jul 2016 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Lumbini Software is a Product Development Company with a focus in Healthcare and Education sector\. Lumbini is also involved in niche Consulting Services in the areas of Outsourced Product Development, Enterprise Architecture, SOA and Java Opensource technologies\. Developed enterprise software products, strengthening the organization's portfolio\. Bootstrapped and Profitable\.

Head \- Application Development Services \( Oracle FMW & Opensource Tech \) at Inatech \- a Calsoft Compnay, Apr 2010 \- Dec 2010 · 9 mos, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Java OpenSource

Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware \( J2EE, ECM, SOA & Integration \) at Oracle, Aug 2008 \- Mar 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos, Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware : Aug 2008\-Mar 2010 Responsible for P&L and Delivery of Java/J2EE, ECM and SOA/Integration teams \( Team size \~ 100 \)

Manager \- Enterprise 2\.0 at Oracle, May 2006 \- Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Responsible for P&L of Enterprise 2\.0 \( ECM, Oracle Portal, App Server Migrations \) Incubated the ECM team after Stellent Acquisition by Oracle\.

Manager / Architect/ Developer at Oracle, Jan 2001 \- Apr 2006 · 5 yrs 4 mos, Manager / Architect/ Developer for Java/J2EE and Oracle Middleware Solutions : Jan 2001 – April 2006 Led the development of Questrix, an Enterprise Strategic Sourcing product suite including Spend analysis, Performance pricing, Multi\-design bench marking etc\. Team size \~ 35

## Education

Master of Science \( 5\-year Integrated Program \), Engineering Physics, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Class XII : West Bengal Board, Science with Maths & Statistics, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur

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