Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar

Director of Engineering at Airwallex

🚀 Scaling FinTech & SaaS platforms globally | 📈 Driving product & business growth

Sanjay Kumar

About

I'm a technology professional with a focus on engineering management, product strategy, and full-stack software development.

  • Airwallex logoAirwallex : I currently lead the Issuing Platform, the infrastructure that powers card products across 70+ countries.
  • Zendesk logoZendesk : Six years growing and leading the Messaging product team from a handful of engineers to forty+ across six squads.
  • Autodesk logoAutodesk : Eight years working on the flagship AutoCAD product and building out identity infrastructure at scale.

I studied engineering at the National University of Singapore and went back for a formal B-school degree at Warwick later in my career. The combination shapes how I think: I care about the Technical Craft as much as the people doing it, and I care about the Business problems as much as the architectures solving it.

Most of my time these days goes to being a father to twin girls. What's left, I spend building things and using AI tools and coding agents constantly, partly to stay current with where the craft is heading, and partly because I still enjoy it.

I also work with a small number of founders, leaders, and engineers on problems that don't have clean answers. Not every challenge fits neatly into a framework, and sometimes the most useful thing is a conversation with someone who has been in a similar spot.

If you're working through something like that, let's chat.

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