Engineering Leader · North America

Hitesh
Kumar

GenAI Platforms & Distributed Systems

"Building the AI-powered engineering organizations and platforms that power the next decade of commerce."

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Featured Capability

Leading the GenAI Shift

Translating AI research into production systems that move the business needle.

Agentic AI Systems

Autonomous agents for code review, test generation, incident triage, and knowledge retrieval — reducing toil and multiplying velocity.

LLM & RAG Platforms

Enterprise-grade retrieval-augmented generation and vector search platforms that make organizational knowledge instantly accessible.

AI-Enabled Developer Productivity

25–30% productivity gains through AI tooling and agent-driven workflow automation — turning teams into force multipliers.

Expertise

What I Do

Engineering at Scale

Led 80–100+ engineers across platform, product, and SRE functions — building high-trust organizations that ship with confidence.

Platform Modernization

Cloud-native microservices, legacy retirement, and enterprise migration on GCP and AWS — future-proofing at scale.

Delivery & Reliability

30% improvement in on-time delivery and 22% reduction in Sev-1 / Sev-2 incidents — shipping fast without compromising stability.

Core Competencies

Skills & Expertise

Engineering Leadership Team Building & Scaling GenAI Strategy & Execution Technology Strategy Organizational Design P&L & Budget Ownership Executive Communication AI-Powered Productivity Talent Development & Retention Platform Engineering Vendor Management Digital Transformation Distributed Systems LLM & RAG Platforms Agentic AI Systems Cloud Architecture · GCP & AWS Cost Optimization Agile & OKRs Hiring & Org Design SRE & DevOps Contract Negotiation Roadmap Planning Program Delivery Risk Management Microservices Architecture
Impact

By the Numbers

17+
Years Experience
100+
Engineers Led
$10M+
Budget Owned
30%
Delivery Improvement
$2M+
Cost Savings
30%
Productivity Gains via AI
Experience

Career

2020 – Present

Sr. Manager Technology

The Home Depot

2017 – 2020

Sr. Manager Technology

Western Union

2016 – 2017

Program Manager Technology

Walmart Global eCommerce

2012 – 2015

Manager, Engineering Platforms

Cisco Webex

Contact

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Availability
Open to North America