Biru Kumar is the Vice President of Engineering at Betterhalf, recognized for his leadership in the engineering domain with the LeaderNext Award in the Engineering category. He has shared his expertise on leveraging Generative AI to enhance customer journeys.
Currently Biru working as a Co-founder of Limpio, Biru is driving innovation in security and seamless visitor management solutions, ensuring gated premises are safer and more efficient. His work focuses on scalability, reliability, and advanced AI-driven automation to redefine entry management systems.
Previously, as a Founding Member of Hansel.io, he played a crucial role in designing, developing, and scaling its backend infrastructure to support billions of requests per month. He mentored backend teams, managed infrastructure, and ensured seamless scalability, security, and deployment.
After Hansel.io, he served as Associate Director at LIDO, where he led engineering teams, drove innovation, and optimized scalable solutions.
With expertise in building and maintaining high-availability systems, Biru specializes in fault-tolerant architectures, distributed computing, database optimization, and real-time data processing. His experience spans Java, Python, SQL, NoSQL, and Big Data, ensuring resilient, highly available, and scalable platforms.
Biru holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science Engineering from the International Institute of Information Technology and is passionate about mentoring teams, solving complex engineering challenges, and driving technological excellence.
