Kuldeep Kumar
Co-Founder, Head of Engineering | HealthTech · Live Streaming · OTT | Built & Scaled Products to Acquisition | MyYogaTeacher, Willow TV
Greater Bengaluru Area
21+ years of work experience
Dec 20187 yrs 7 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Building MyYogaTeacher. Building teams and designing the technology roadmap for a live 1-on-1 online yoga class platform — live video, scheduling, payments, and instructor-student matching at scale
• Building the engineering team in India from zero — establishing hiring pipelines, engineering culture, development processes, and delivery cadence for a globally distributed product
• Leading India operations: team structure, performance management, cross-timezone collaboration with global stakeholders, and operational systems
• Defined product roadmap and engineering priorities as both a founder and technical leader — operating across strategy, architecture, and hands-on execution
• Building platform infrastructure supporting live classes delivery, user growth, and instructor network operations
• Established engineering practices and team rituals that allowed the India team to operate as a high-trust, autonomous unit
Leadership & Stakeholders: Co-founder operating across engineering, product, operations, and business; partnered with co-founders on GTM strategy, fundraising narrative, and investor communications
Apr 20099 yrs 6 mosSep 2018
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Built Willow TV's engineering and product function from zero — establishing the technical architecture, hiring the team, and defining the product roadmap that made Willow TV North America's destination for live cricket
• Pioneered live cricket streaming in North America at a time when reliable live video delivery across web, mobile, and OTT was an unsolved infrastructure problem for most of the industry
• Led worldwide live streaming operations for the IPL across multiple consecutive seasons — managing real-time delivery, platform reliability, and operational execution for one of cricket's highest-stakes broadcast properties
• Led live streaming delivery for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in the United States — operating at international broadcast scale with no margin for failure
• Built and scaled the streaming platform across three surfaces: web, mobile (iOS and Android), and OTT — early in the market adoption of OTT as a distribution channel
• Drove the product and engineering strategy that contributed to Willow TV's acquisition by Times Internet in 2016 — one of India's largest digital media companies [Source: Economic Times]
• Managed end-to-end product lifecycle: requirements, architecture, team delivery, QA, deployment, and live operations — across a team scaled from founding members to a full engineering organization
• Worked with broadcast rights, streaming infrastructure vendors, CDN partners, and internal stakeholders to maintain platform SLAs during peak live events
Apr 20071 yr 10 mosJan 2009
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Led the architecture and development of SezWho, a globally deployed reputation and ratings platform for social media and blogs.
• Developed innovative e-commerce platforms for Myntra, enhancing the personalized product marketplace.
• Delivered comprehensive product engineering for DailyLit
• Managed cross-geography client relationships and led cross-functional teams in design, engineering, and QA.
20061 yr2007
Mar 20042 yrs 1 moMar 2006
Development position based on .NET technologies.
Education
B. Tech
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
19985 yrs2003
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