I'm Kumaril Bhattacharya
Executive Healthcare Leader
- Age 50
- Address Ormond Beach, FL
- Experience 25+ years
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Education
Bachelors (Computer Science),
MS (Computer Science),
MS (Software Management) - Not Currently
Senior Director of Engineering with 25+ years of experience leading enterprise healthcare platforms across cloud and on‑prem deployments. Proven track record managing multi‑pod, globally distributed engineering teams, owning end‑to‑end delivery from roadmap to commercialization, and driving operational excellence through CI/CD, DevSecOps, and reliability practices. Deep experience in regulated healthcare environments (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2), interoperability (FHIR, HL7, EDI), and modern engineering transformations that directly support revenue realization and customer success.
Professional Skills
Work Experience
• Led multiple engineering PODs across geographically distributed teams, delivering a Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Owned enterprise‑scale delivery, including production readiness, commercialization support, and regional customer deployments across Middle East and Africa.
• Defined and implemented standardized engineering processes, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, DevSecOps) across 20+ services,
improving release consistency and operational supportability.
• Partnered with Product, Legal, Clinical, and Pre‑Sales teams to translate regulatory and market requirements into prioritized roadmaps, milestones, and release plans.
• Embedded HIPAA, GDPR, and national health compliance into delivery practices through consent management, auditing, and security controls.
• Drove cross‑team dependency management, proactively identifying risks and unblocking critical path initiatives impacting go‑to‑market Timelines.
• Supported AI‑enabled clinical decision products from prototype to market delivery, enabling new revenue opportunities.
• Led and developed a globally distributed engineering organization (12+ engineers) delivering a cloud‑native healthcare SaaS platform
integrated with major EMRs (Epic, Cerner, AthenaHealth).
• Owned delivery execution, release planning, and operational readiness for HIPAA‑compliant SaaS deployments.
• Partnered with Product and UX to define realistic roadmaps, milestones, and release plans, incorporating usability and GTM feedback loops.
• Drove modernization from a monolith to domain‑based microservices, improving scalability, security posture, and long‑term platform
sustainability.
• Established engineering quality practices, including test strategy, defect management, and release readiness criteria.
• Oversaw HIPAA, SOC2 compliance and planning for HITRUST certification.
• Develop Architecture for Walmart's Omni-channel access to Healthcare Services.
• Develop Architecture for a FHIR based Repository to support Interoperability
• Create reusable interoperability channels with internal and external partners such as payers, EMRs and health clinics to exchange patient data
• Develop healthcare service architecture to support Value Based Care and Social Determinants of Health population in a retail healthcare setting.
• Creating solution for Telehealth platform to integrate with EMRs (Epic, Athena etc)
• Creating micro-product solutions for Optum Care Management Platform
• Working along with the chief architect at Optum to define reference architecture for modernizing a portfolio of applications in Provider and Clinical space that are owned by United Healthcare and Optum.
• Implemented and coordinated with delivery team leaders to execute the organization’s strategic goals of modernization of Healthcare Provider and Clinical Applications.
• Created Solution Intent Documents for large as well as small projects.
• Spearheaded as well as participated in Proof Of Concept projects to demonstrate key modernization concepts around Streaming architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Micro Services
• Architected a SaaS platform that is HIPAA compliant EHR designed for Dietitians based on IDNT and Nutrition Care process.
• Managed a team of off-shore and in-house engineers.
• Worked with Marketing and Sales to close enterprise retail customers and captured 60% of the retail segment.
• Designed and implemented a product portfolio that addresses needs of market segment needing HIPAA compliance and other dietetic services.
• Created and maintained a product roadmap based on agile principles.
• Grew the revenue to $350K within two years of product launch in a niche market with long sales cycles.
• Worked with current customers and prospects to gather requirements and create opportunities for up-selling new modules on the SaaS platform.
Our mission was to design and develop cost-effective and portable home-care solutions for chronic illnesses around the world. Our first release was geared towards juveniles who want to manage diabetes using a social environment. The solution was developed to run on iPhone and android platform.
• Lead development and project management duties for three network management products – Extensible Management Platform (XMP), Unified Communications Management suite, and Active Network Abstraction (ANA)
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• Evaluated, developed and supported reusable software components for multiple Cisco network management systems to reduce development overhead across multiple management systems.
• Participated in architecture meetings to design integrated platform architecture of three Cisco Systems products - voice security (CSM), voice provisioning (CUPM) and voice monitoring (CUOM).
• Developed solutions that allowed Cisco’s customer to keep using their legacy applications more effectively while Cisco saved 8,000 men hours/year in maintenance costs.
• Increased productivity of new offshore engineers by 30% and increased revenue by $5 million through faster support for new optical switch hardware.
• Managed minor releases from execution commit to first customer ship (FCS) for Cisco Transport Manager (CTM) and Cisco Wan Manager (CWM).
• Acted as the single point of contact for Cisco customers with high priority cases and represented Cisco engineering at customer escalations and high priority cases.
• Created an efficient process to provide quick minor releases for critical issues and achieved 20% reduction in average number of outstanding customer issues.
• Reduced turn-around time by 25% for critical customer cases in service provider space.
• Improved tracking and visibility of customer cases by creating a consolidated web location which improved engineer’s productivity as much as 40%.
• Achieved 60% decrease in customer found issues and won CTM team the “Build in Quality” Champions award.
• Tested WAN switches and managed network resources for test teams.
• Achieved 50% decrease in time to reproduce customer problems in Cisco labs due to updated labs.
Education
My Interests
- Bicycling
- Watch Movies
- Playing Tennis
- Swimming
- Hiking
Contact Me
Feel free to contact me
- E-mail kumarilb@gmail.com