Product met engineering.
Two benches, one team.

Murali’s rule: if you do something more than twice, automate it. Five years of turning manual process into software — across fintech, healthtech, and AI-native B2B — with Python, SQL, and whatever glue the problem needs.

Led security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR), release management, and real-time dev tracking in the CTO’s office at Factors.AI. Built and ran a 22-person automation team at Tracxn (42% efficiency gain). Ran the “Hercules” healthcare SaaS at Medi Assist (3M+ daily transactions, 16 production RPA bots). Wore the BA / PM / build-whatever-is-missing hat at BeGig, an early-stage gig-economy startup.

Reads a broken workflow the way an engineer reads broken code — finds the right abstraction, not the ten-step fix. If your process pain is ambiguous, it’s him on the first call.

Kumar’s bar: software that doesn’t flake in the middle of a launch. A decade across distributed systems, developer platforms, and data infrastructure — Java, Go, Python, Kubernetes, GraphQL, and the Postgres / Redis / Kafka plumbing that has to hold under enterprise load.

Shipped shopping-cart platforms and GraphQL APIs serving millions at Intuit. Built B2B marketing-analytics backends at Factors.AI. Wrote enterprise virtualization and cloud infra at VMware. Shipped Alexa speech middleware at Amazon — voice on millions of Echo devices. Built cloud-native microservices at Dell.

Writes the kind of backend that survives the migration, the traffic spike, and the new hire who inherits it.