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title: "Suman Kumar - Head of Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Suman Kumar, Engineering Leader | Digital & AI | Building AI-First Engineering Organisation | Distributed & Scalable Platforms | Ex-Ola/SAP/MIQ based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, hugging face, and kiro."
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# Suman Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader \| Digital & AI \| Building AI\-First Engineering Organisation \| Distributed & Scalable Platforms \| Ex\-Ola/SAP/MIQ

## About

I am an Engineering Leader with 14\+ years of experience building and scaling high\-impact platforms across fintech, mobility, and digital ecosystems\. Currently leading Digital & AI Engineering at TVS Motor Company, I focus on translating business vision into scalable, resilient, and future\-ready technology platforms\. Over the years, I have built and led high\-performing engineering organizations, including scaling teams from the ground up to 60\+ engineers across backend, frontend, QA, and DevOps\. My experience spans designing distributed systems handling 80K\+ concurrent requests per minute, processing millions of events, and delivering low\-latency, high\-availability systems in fast\-paced environments\. I bring a strong combination of deep technical expertise and product thinking\. I have led the development of critical platforms such as payment systems, notification platforms, master data systems, and data\-intensive pipelines processing terabytes of data\. I have also driven large\-scale transformations from monolith to microservices, implemented event\-driven architectures using Kafka, and optimized systems to achieve sub\-200ms response times at scale\. Beyond execution, my focus is on building engineering excellence: • Driving architecture and platform strategy aligned with business goals • Establishing strong engineering practices for quality, observability, and security • Mentoring leaders and building a culture of ownership and continuous improvement • Leveraging AI/GenAI to enhance developer productivity and accelerate delivery I have worked across organizations like Ola Financial Services, Mishipay, Quotient Technology, and MIQ, delivering scalable products in payments, lending, data platforms, and enterprise systems\. What excites me today is building intelligent, AI\-powered platforms and engineering organizations that can operate at scale while continuously innovating\. I am particularly interested in solving large, complex problems at the intersection of platform engineering, data, and AI\. Open to conversations around Engineering Leadership, Platform Strategy, and AI\-driven transformation\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

hugging face

kiro

langchain

langgraph

mcp

## Work experience

Head of Engineering at TVS Motor Company, Mar 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at Ola, Jan 2022 \- Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Lead Software Engineer at Quotient Technology Inc\., Nov 2018 \- Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at MiQ, May 2017 \- Oct 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, working on development of Enterprise software to mine data from different data sources using Java and Apache Camel following Agile Methodologies

Senior Software Engineer at SAP, Nov 2016 \- Apr 2017 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

B\-Tech, ECE, NIT Silchar

10th \- 12th, Maths, Jesus & mary academy

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