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Naveen Kumar B N

AI First Engineering Leader, Sr R & D Manager
Bengaluru,KA
Naveen Kumar B N

Summary

Visionary technology leader with over 20 years of expertise in driving AI-first strategies and engineering excellence. Adept at leading large-scale, global software development teams to deliver high-impact Cloud and SaaS solutions. A strategic driver of innovation, seamlessly integrating emerging technologies to accelerate digital transformation while fostering high-performance, diverse, and multi-geo teams with minimal attrition.

A dynamic executive who merges the agility of a startup with the operational maturity of an established enterprise, enabling transformational product engineering and scalable business growth. Extensive hands-on expertise in architecting and deploying Cloud/SaaS web applications, leveraging distributed systems, ETL, integrations, and cutting-edge AI-driven methodologies.

Deep technical proficiency across a broad spectrum of AI and cloud technologies, including OpenAI, Cline, oLlama, GPT-3.5, 4.0, 4.1, MCP Servers, RAG models, Power BI Analytics, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Observability & SRE, Data Science & Machine Learning (ML), Cloud Security, Virtualization & Containers, Azure, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, C#, Python, Terraform, Yaml and more.

A strategic thought leader, transforming software development, QA, Product Management, and Documentation through AI-powered automation—enhancing efficiency by over 50% and driving operational excellence across the enterprise.

Overview

21
years of professional experience
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Aptean
Bangalore, Karnataka

AI First Engineering Leader, Sr R & D Manager
11.2019 - Current

Job overview

Experienced Lead Development Manager overseeing a high-performing team of 40+ developers, leads, and architects. Spearheading flagship products such as Axxos, IRMS, and Respond, driving innovation and technical excellence across development initiatives.
Championing AI adoption in product development, documentation, and QA automation, enabling a 50% improvement in team efficiency through strategic AI-driven optimizations. Adept at managing diverse, time-sensitive projects while ensuring seamless execution and delivery.
Strong collaborator, fostering alignment between Development, Product Management, QA, and Technical Writing teams to enhance productivity and accelerate go-to-market strategies. Leading the design and architecture of systems through Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology (POT) initiatives, while driving continuous product enhancements.
Architecting and reviewing design proposals for product improvements and new features, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Conducting comprehensive code reviews, providing actionable feedback to elevate code quality and engineering standards.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines across all portfolio projects, streamlining development and deployment processes for optimized delivery. Managing both functional and non-functional product requirements, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
Standardizing DevOps templates to enhance workflow execution from Product Development Team (PDT) to Customer Support Team (CST) while leading FR and NFR portfolio roadmaps. Collaborating with clients, vendors, contractors, and professional service teams to efficiently manage orders and resources.
Deeply engaged in hands-on coding, with a strong passion for system architecture and development. Driving product augmentation to enhance efficiency and usability, including Self-Serve features that improve user experience and operational effectiveness.

Infinera
Bangalore, Karnataka

Software Development Manager, Architect
07.2013 - 10.2019

Job overview

• Technical Manager and Architect, leading development team for IBW, Saleshub, Warf, POD, OCR, Unified Portal applications.
• Lead Team of around 18 Developers.
• High- and Low-Level Designing of Systems.
• Designed and Architected systems by creating POC's.
• Performed R&D Technically to fulfill the business needs.
• Administrated Azure Platform.
• Reviews Code and provide feedback to team.
• Coding and Unit Testing, Developing Interfaces, UI etc.
• Create High/Low level design and architecture of the solution, including class, sequence diagrams, deployment infrastructure diagrams, package diagram etc.

Allscripts
Bangalore, Karnataka

Architect & Tech lead
11.2011 - 06.2013

Job overview

• Tech lead and Architect for IOW project.
• Primary contributions were to design and architect new upcoming modules for applications.
• Implemented system using Prism (Composition Application Guidance patterns and practices), Factory, Singleton, MVVM patterns.
• Implemented SOLID design Principle.
• Designed system and implemented prototype code for business and Data access using Entity framework.
• Create and review Prototype Code, Technical design document, Coding standards etc.
• Designed and implemented new modules for the business requirements and reusable components.
• Created High/Low level design and architecture of solution, including class, sequence diagrams, deployment infrastructure diagrams, package diagram etc.

IBM India
Bangalore, Portland US

Associate Architect & Project Lead
02.2007 - 11.2011

Job overview

• Developer to Associate Architect and Project Lead worked in HillRom US, Vodafone Italy, and Intel iCost US project.
• Primary contributions were for designing and architecting core framework modules for application. Core architecture comprises of interoperable modules with exposed contracts running in a data context.
• Involved to develop control library (Enhanced Microsoft standard control).
• Created UML Diagrams like class diagrams and Sequence diagrams based on use cases provided by business analyst team.
• Written custom controls.
• Created Common Generic methods for UI module levels.
• Extensively used databinding, converters, dependency properties, attached properties, routed events, resources, control templates, styles and data templates.
• Scrum Master [Agile Methodology].
• Lead team of about 28 members in onsite and 6 members in offshore.

Ajaxdotcom Pvt Ltd
Bangalore

Senior Developer/Software Engineer
03.2006 - 02.2007

Job overview

• Developer worked in Washington and Stock Exchange project for US customers using C#.
• Developed User controls to achieve reuse and uniform look and feel.
• Implemented business Logic for System.
• Involved in Designing database tables and relations for different modules.
• Involved in Development and Testing system.

Global Solutions Pvt Ltd
Bangalore

Software Engineer
08.2004 - 02.2006

Job overview

• Developer for HMS, Accusoft and MRP Applications.
• Implemented User controls to achieve reuse and uniform look and feel.
• Greater Scalability is achieved by effectively.
• Implemented rich and complex business process through design model of Business Logic layer using C# classes collections and interfaces.
• Integrated (BL) and DAL through interfaces that isolated BL from changes in backend RDBMS.
• Developed Database Driven tasks using ADO.net.
• Developed Custom Components used in Application.

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University (Dr A.I.T)
Bengaluru, KA

Bachelor’s from Electronics and Communication Engineering
01.2001 - 01.2004

Department of Technical Education, Karnataka
Bengaluru, KA

Diploma from Electronics and Communication Engineering
01.1997 - 01.2001

Skills

Agile, SDLC, Product development, C#, Net Framework and Core, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS, IaC, MaaS Kubernetes, Helm, ASPNet MVC, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Redis, Azure K8s, Azure Logic App’s, Azure Functions, Power Platforms, Reactjs, NodeJS, JavaScript, Send Grid, OCR, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Sencha, WCF, Serverless or AWS lambda, RestAPI, AWS Lambda, Apache Kafka, DevOps, GIT, CI/CD

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Timeline

AI First Engineering Leader, Sr R & D Manager

Aptean
11.2019 - Current

Software Development Manager, Architect

Infinera
07.2013 - 10.2019

Architect & Tech lead

Allscripts
11.2011 - 06.2013

Associate Architect & Project Lead

IBM India
02.2007 - 11.2011

Senior Developer/Software Engineer

Ajaxdotcom Pvt Ltd
03.2006 - 02.2007

Software Engineer

Global Solutions Pvt Ltd
08.2004 - 02.2006

Visvesvaraya Technological University (Dr A.I.T)

Bachelor’s from Electronics and Communication Engineering
01.2001 - 01.2004

Department of Technical Education, Karnataka

Diploma from Electronics and Communication Engineering
01.1997 - 01.2001
Naveen Kumar B NAI First Engineering Leader, Sr R & D Manager