I’m Sunil Kumar—an engineering leader with two decades of experience building scalable platforms, leading high-impact teams, and driving large-scale data and AI initiatives across global tech companies. My work spans the intersection of big data systems, AI-first engineering practices, and platform reliability at scale. Over the years, I’ve held key positions at Flipkart, Adobe, MakeMyTrip, Shopzilla, and Nextag, consistently pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in commerce and platform engineering.

What I Do Best

• Platform Engineering: Architected and scaled data and infra platforms handling 100PB+ workloads, powering mission-critical commerce experiences.
• AI for Developer Productivity: Drove org-wide adoption of AI assistants, auto-remediation, and SDLC automation to accelerate velocity and reduce toil.
• Data Platforms: Led the complete migration of Flipkart’s Big Data platform to GCP, introducing unified governance, security, and observability.
• Organizational Leadership: Built and scaled multi-disciplinary teams, shaped engineering culture, and worked across functions to ship fast, reliably, and at scale.

Prior Roles & Milestones

• Flipkart – Senior Director of Engineering
  • Led Platform, Productivity Engineering, Data Infra & AI strategy
  • Delivered reliability improvements, GenAI integration, and CI/CD maturity uplift
• Adobe & MakeMyTrip – Engineering & Product-Led Roles
  • Worked across consumer platforms and analytics systems
  • Built systems with a strong bias for performance and user delight
• Shopzilla, Nextag – Early grounding in high-scale systems and product experimentation

Beliefs I Work By

• Measure impact, not activity
• Build leverage through platforms
• Solve for the engineer as much as the user
• When in doubt, ship and learn

I care deeply about engineering systems that last, cultures that scale, and teams that love what they build.