Fractional CTO · Director / VP Engineering

I scale engineering orgs — the teams, the platforms, and the IP that compounds.

24+ years across automotive, healthcare and fintech. Built a 400+ engineer organization, influenced $50M+ in revenue, and filed four patents in AI-driven predictive analytics.

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Swarup Kumar
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$50M+
Revenue influenced
400+
Engineer org built
4
Patents filed
$1.5M+
Cloud cost saved
24+
Years in tech
16+
Leaders mentored
Industries & global reach
Automotive & Connected Vehicles Healthcare / MedTech (SaMD) FinTech & Digital Banking Digital Dentistry India · EU · USA · ASEAN · Japan
Work with me

Two ways in.
One operator’s judgement.

I bring senior engineering leadership to teams scaling teams, platforms and delivery — as a fractional partner, or full-time where the mandate is genuinely transformational.

Fractional / Advisory

Fractional CTO & Advisor

For founders and engineering leaders who need senior judgement without a full-time hire. Architecture & scale, SAFe / Lean Portfolio rollout, IP & patent strategy, due-diligence support, and leadership coaching.

Org design SAFe at scale IP strategy M&A diligence
Engagement-based · Selective
Full-time

Director / VP Engineering

Open to a small number of full-time leadership roles globally — SaaS, IoT and data-driven platforms where the brief is to build the organization and the IP behind it, not just run it.

SaaS & IoT AI / ML P&L Global teams
Global · By introduction
How it runs

Listen first. Re-shape. Hand off a thinner playbook.

01 · Listen

Map before moving

The first weeks are spent reading the org, the delivery flow and the risk — not changing things. Most scaling pain is conversation overhead, not technology.

02 · Re-shape

Org, cadence, IP

Release-aligned team design, a release cadence that survives an audit, a calibrated hiring bar, and a patent pipeline that turns quiet engineering into protected IP.

03 · Hand off

Run it without me

Good fractional work shows up as documents the team can run alone — one clean handoff, not dashboards and Notion bloat.

Proof of impact

Selected work.

BOSCH Global Software · Automotive · SaaS/IoT · 2019–2023
$50M+
AI predictive maintenance at 95% accuracy across 7 global accounts. Patent #202141049000; 99.95% platform SLA.
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Straumann · Healthcare · Digital Dentistry · 2023–2025
1 → 7teams in 5 mo.
20 features shipped in 3 months, 15% quality lift, SaMD / MDR / GDPR compliant from day one.
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SLK Software · FinTech · Digital Banking · 2025–present
99%
125+ associate delivery org, 99% client retention, 15% delivery-cost reduction, $10M+ account.
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A note on the work

Most scale problems are not engineering problems. They are org-design problems wearing engineering clothes. The patent pipeline survives only if the people pipeline does.

— Swarup Kumar
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Swarup Kumar · Scaling engineering teams, platforms, and the IP that compounds.

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