Yogesh Nikumbh
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Head of Product Engineering and Site Leader - India and Nepal
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Head of Product Engineering and Site leader - India and NepalAbacus InsightsDec 2025 - Current (10 months)As Product Engineering head and Site Leader for India (Pune, Mysore) and Nepal (Kathmandu), I’m responsible for driving product roadmap execution, establishing Centers of Excellence in Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Cloud Technologies, and scaling a high-performance engineering organization focused on Product Innovations, Engineering Excellence, and Delivery Impact.- Founder - Stealth Startup – AI Virtual Try-On PlatformSelfemployedDec 2024 - Nov 2025 (1 year)Founded and led a stealth-stage AI startup in the fashion-tech and apparel space focused on developing a Virtual Try-On platform using computer vision, generative AI, and 3D modeling technologies.
Key Highlights:
• Built and led small AI engineering team, driving product vision, architecture, and MVP delivery.
• Designed and implemented deep learning and generative AI models (Diffusion Models, 3D Body Mesh Reconstruction, Defined end-to-end data pipelines, model training workflows and Virtual Draping) to simulate clothing fit and fabric behavior.
• Established early PoC partnerships with apparel brands, shopping portals and pitched to multiple seed investors for pre-funding validation.
Paused the ventur - VP of Engineering in Relatient (Formerly Radix-Health)RelatientSep 2021 - Nov 2024 (3 years 3 months)In my role at Relatient, I led engineering for a healthcare SaaS platform serving large scale patients in US and overseeing product vision, architecture, delivery, and organizational scale.
Key Highlights:
• Launched two new healthcare SaaS products (Dash Chat and New Dash Self) contributing to a increase in ARR and improving patient engagement outcomes.
• Scaled the India engineering organization while maintaining very low attrition through strong engineering culture, career frameworks, and performance systems.
• Modernized architecture improving scalability, security, reliability, and uptime.
• Achieved major compliance certifications — HITRUST, HIPAA — embedding security and privacy into engineering cultur - Director Of Engineering in Newfold Digital (Formerly Endurance International Group )Newfold DigitalJun 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 4 months)• Led software engineering of OrderBox SaaS platform for brands like resellerclub, logic box, bigrock.
• Drove product roadmap execution and engineering improvements for Java, Openshift, GCP technologies.
• Achieved excellence in engineering execution, enhancing platform performance and scalability. - Senior Engineering ManagerVeritas Technologies LLCSep 2019 - Jun 2020 (10 months)• Led the delivery of a Data Insights and Intelligence platform at Veritas Technologies LLC in Pune, India.
• Utilized AWS and open cloud technologies to provide data storage analytics and visualization predictive insights.
• Developed correlations and recommendations to enhance data-driven decision-making processes. - Director Of EngineeringDruvaDec 2015 - Aug 2019 (3 years 9 months)• Led engineering team in developing Druva's flagship product "inSync" on AWS cloud.
• Spearheaded program management charter to enhance agility and engineering excellence.
• Achieved seamless delivery of product features, ensuring high customer satisfaction. - Senior Engineering ManagerPersistent SystemsAug 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 5 months)Led engineering team for large and complex software products in Oil and Gas industry for one of Persistent's client.
- Senior Engineering ManagerIBM India Pvt LtdAug 2008 - Aug 2014 (6 years 1 month)• Led IBM STG's Scale Out NAS engineering team to deliver scalable storage architecture supporting hundreds of petabytes with low-latency access.
• Managed integrated product features like Disaster Recovery, Storage Virtualization, and General Parallel Clustered File System.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure high-performance file storage capabilities for handling enormous data sets. - Engineering ManagerNetAppJun 2005 - Aug 2008 (3 years 3 months)• Led StoreVault team, a NetApp's ONTAP based mid-range storage system, delivering multiple releases for SAN and NAS features.
• Managed the implementation of CIFS, NFS, DR, Backup, Block storage, Snapshots, and WAFL functionalities.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of key storage system features. - Senior EngineerVERITAS Software Now SymantecAug 2003 - Jun 2005 (1 year 11 months)Worked on Veritas Cluster Server 4.0 product features , also contributed in the automation of VCS 4.0 , Kernel level testing and Winlogo certification
- Software EngineeriGATE Previously Patni Computer SystemsNov 2002 - Aug 2003 (10 months)Led engineering efforts for validation of EMC CLARiiON product features like MirrorView, SnapView using NaviCLI and CLI automation in NAS and SAN space.
- CSoftware EngineerCygsoftSep 2000 - Nov 2002 (2 years 3 months)Worked on CONSTEL an Network Management System, product of CygSoft Inc., and played key role in development and QA responsibilities of network management systems.
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- Business Administration and Management, GeneralIndian Institute of Management BangaloreJan 2013 - Jan 2014 (1 year 1 month)
- GBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng, Electronics and TelecomGovernment college of engineering Amarati Amaravati UniversityJan 1996 - Jan 1999 (3 years 1 month)