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Chaitanya Kumar

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Co-founder & COO at Kite Works · product, developer tools

Works at
Kite Works
Location
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
15+ years experience
Education
Shri Ram College of Commerce
Languages
English, Hindi, Tamil

Overview

Building Kite Works in Chennai - developer tooling. Signed 78 paying customers, 5 of them enterprises. Before that: Bosch and Tata Motors. Most at home with operations and open source.

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  • Questions about developer tooling
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Paid accelerator offers

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Skills
developer toolsopen sourceoperationscommunityproductRust

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Feb 2023 - Present
    Kite Works · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Grew the team to 51 people across 4 countries.
    • Raised $14 million across 3 rounds.
    • Took Kite Works from zero to $11 million ARR.
  2. Associate Partner
    Jun 2019 - Feb 2023
    Bosch · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Grew the storage team from 5 to 33 engineers.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 38% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Feb 2017 - Jun 2019
    Tata Motors · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Designed the operating model for a 8 thousand-person transformation.
  4. Consultant
    May 2015 - Feb 2017
    Samsung R&D · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Designed the operating model for a 14 thousand-person transformation.
  5. Senior Consultant
    Jun 2011 - Feb 2015
    BigBasket · 3 yr 8 mo · Contract · Chennai, India
    • Designed the operating model for a 8 thousand-person transformation.
    • Delivered 19 engagements across 5 countries.

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Education

  1. Shri Ram College of Commerce
    B.Com, Computer Science
    2003 - 2007

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