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title: "Saumitra Kumar - Director of Engineering & India Site Lead (Customer Identity) in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Saumitra Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Tech Leader \| Okta \| Ex Amazon Prime, Founder

## About

https://blog\-saumit\.com

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

hugging face

langchain

notion

openai

## Work experience

Director of Engineering & India Site Lead \(Customer Identity\) at Okta, Mar 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, 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

CoFounder / Chief Product & Technology Officer at Healthcare Startup, Jan 2022 \- Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos, 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

Head of Engineering, Amazon Prime India at Amazon, Aug 2021 \- Jan 2022 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the engineering organization responsible for building and operating the Amazon Prime membership program in India

Software Development Manager, Amazon India at Amazon, Jan 2018 \- Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led high\-performing teams to build and launch applications for Amazon Prime and the Exchange program in India

Engineering Manager, AWS at Amazon, Nov 2016 \- Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos, San Francisco Bay Area

Engineering Manager at Verizon, Dec 2014 \- Nov 2016 · 2 yrs, San jose, Owned end\-to\-end engineering of multiple large\-scale consumer applications in Verizon, including a data gifting platform, and an authentication service

Technology Manager \- Engineering & Product at Sears Holdings Corporation, Dec 2012 \- Nov 2014 · 2 yrs, Greater Chicago Area, Led engineering & product for several key components of the Sears eCommerce platform, including Ratings & Reviews and Social Commerce features

Senior Software Engineer \- Ecommerce at Sears Holdings Corporation, Jan 2012 \- Dec 2012 · 1 yr, Chicago

## Education

MS, Information Systems / Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

BE, Computer Science, Pune Institute of Computer Technology

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