Praveen Kumar R

#602 E2, IIT Bhubaneswar
Argul, Khordha, Bhubaneswar 752050
+91 9710282493  |  iamrpraveenkumar@gmail.com
12+ years • Automation & Integrations • Strategic Technology Expertise • Large-scale Systems

Profile

Automation-focused technology expert with 12+ years of hands-on and strategic experience building and operating national-scale systems for government and enterprise. I specialize in productizing automation, migrating legacy systems, and delivering measurable business impact — saving lakhs of man-hours, enabling crore-level revenues, and modernizing infrastructure with on-prem and cloud-native platforms. Focused on shaping automation-driven product and engineering strategies, building high-performance teams, and delivering scalable outcomes that accelerate business growth.

Selected Projects & Product Impact

  • N8N Automation — Self-hosted automation powering article/image generation, Google Sheets syncs, email marketing and Telegram bots. Reduced manual content and publishing effort by ~80% and became a re-usable automation blueprint for marketing and ops teams.
  • Service Request & Complaints Portal — National-scale portal receiving millions of requests; integrated with backend microservices and reporting pipelines to enable operations and revenue capture.
  • Pickup Service & ONDC Integration — New logistics product and marketplace connectivity enabling India Post to participate in modern eCommerce flows.
  • GovDocsFiller Desktop App — Python-based offline automation suite for bulk document generation used for VFS Global Support Documents and CSCs.
  • E-Certificates Platform (ecertificates.in) — Dockerized PHP + GoLang + Postgres system for issuing certificates at scale.
  • Chess Analytics & Reports (Spirenex App) — Academy Managment Platform generating weekly reports using external APIs and automated pipelines specially for Chess
  • E-Book Tools & Automation — Tools for eBook conversion/audit that reduced manual QA time significantly (used at Amazon; awarded internally).

Experience (Selected)

Web Developer — Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar 2023 – Present

  • Modernized and rebuilt 10-year legacy websites into responsive, accessible and maintainable platforms single-handedly; estimated savings of 💰 ₹40–50 lakhs in vendor/outsourcing costs.
  • Administer & manage Google Workspace for ~12,000 users (students, alumni, faculty, staff) and serve as institutional Microsoft 365 admin.
  • Built ERP modules, institutional workflows and mobile integrations to streamline academic operations.

Guest Lecturer, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research 2019 – 2025

  • 🤓 Taught AI, Cyber Security, Digital Fluency, C and Python to B.Sc and M.Sc students.
  • Mentored and prepared students for industry and placements.

Programmer — Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology (CEPT), Department of Posts 2016 – 2023

  • Architected and scaled the Service Request Application handling 10–15 lakh+ requests annually 🏤; ensured continuity during COVID and contributed to revenue generation of several crores per year.
  • Built India Post’s first online Recruitment Portal, eliminating large-scale manual paperwork and saving thousands of employees’ time 🕰️.
  • Implemented the Pickup Service (new logistics offering) and initiated ONDC integration 🔀 to enable eCommerce capabilities.
  • Served as SPOC for national integrations with UMANG and data.gov.in.
  • Designed and delivered the national-scale Complaints Management Portal and other citizen-facing services.
  • Led on-prem engineering of Kubernetes, Docker & Kafka clusters for high-availability ⏱️, low-latency services (production-grade deployments across multiple data-centers).
  • Owned security testing 🔒, hardening and compliance for mission-critical systems, coordinating vulnerability remediation across teams.
  • Contributed to the core architecture and PoC 💡 work for India Post 2.0, where my prototypes and tooling were adopted into the national roadmap.
  • Developed MIS dashboards 📊, reporting automation and enterprise integrations used across state and national administration.
  • Handled server provisioning, backup automation and operational readiness for production systems (Windows & Linux servers).

Content Associate — Amazon India2014 – 2015

  • Built 10 automation tools for the eBooks/content team which delivered 1–10 hours time-savings per workflow and improved throughput by ~40% 📈 across 100+ associates.
  • Recognized as Star Performer for measurable operational improvements.

Web Developer — NIEPMD & Various Roles2013 – 2014 / earlier

  • Developed and maintained STQC-certified National Award winning website; created digital content, certificates and design assets for national-level programs.

Achievements & Recognition

  • Co-authored: Manual on Developing Websites with Universal Design (ISBN: 978-81-928032-8-9).
  • Rajya Puraskar recipient — awarded by the Governor of Tamil Nadu.
  • Google Analytics & Google Power Search certifications.
  • Star Performer award at Amazon India for process automation impact.

Education

  • M.E. Systems Engineering & Operations Research — College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University (2013 – 2016) — CGPA: 7.7
  • B.E. Computer Science & Engineering — University College of Engineering Arni, Anna University (2009 – 2013) — CGPA: 6.76