Saumitra Kumar
Tech Leader | Okta | Ex Amazon Prime, Founder
Bengaluru
14+ years of work experience
Mar 20242 yrs 3 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Site Lead & Director of Engineering for Okta's Customer Identity Cloud (Auth0) vertical in India; built and scaled the engineering org from inception, driving velocity, execution excellence, and innovation
Jan 20222 yrs 2 mosFeb 2024
Left Amazon to found a healthcare startup focused on diabetes management through digital lifestyle programs. I was fortunate to be able to help hundreds of diabetes patients through this. Gained invaluable entrepreneurial experience and learnings despite the venture not scaling. Also, briefly worked at an Ecommerce startup as their CPTO during this period
Aug 20216 mosJan 2022
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Led the engineering organization responsible for building and operating the Amazon Prime membership program in India
Jan 20183 yrs 8 mosAug 2021
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Led high-performing teams to build and launch applications for Amazon Prime and the Exchange program in India
Nov 20161 yr 3 mosJan 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Dec 20142 yrsNov 2016
San jose
Owned end-to-end engineering of multiple large-scale consumer applications in Verizon, including a data gifting platform, and an authentication service
Dec 20122 yrsNov 2014
Greater Chicago Area
Led engineering & product for several key components of the Sears eCommerce platform, including Ratings & Reviews and Social Commerce features
Jan 20121 yrDec 2012
Chicago
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Education
MS, Information Systems / Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
20102 yrs2012
BE, Computer Science
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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