Pankaj Kumar

Pankaj Kumar in a red hoodie at a waterfront overlook

1984 Born in Bokaro Steel City

Building thoughtful products at the intersection of people, technology and possibility. Grounded by family. Curious about the world.

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A little more about me

The story so far

A career shaped
by curiosity.

I’m a product leader with 16+ years of experience creating and scaling consumer and enterprise technology. My journey—from software engineering to leadership—has taken me across continents and companies, always with one question in mind: how can technology make life a little better?

Today I lead product and AI at Eye-Q Hospitals, bringing intelligent tools into care journeys that reach millions. Away from work, I’m a son and brother who makes time for travel, family and being home in Bokaro.

16+years in product

10Mpatients reached

50MReddit chat users

The work

A journey of building.

From code to product strategy, and from early ideas to experiences used by millions.

012025 — now

Eye-Q Hospitals · India

Chief Product & AI Officer

Orchestrating AI agents for a healthcare network serving 10 million patients across 35+ hospitals.

022024 — 2025

Adda Education · Remote

Head of Product, Design, Analytics & AI

Led 50+ across six brands; AI initiatives drove 2× revenue growth and 12% lower costs.

032022 — 2024

Reddit · Seattle

Group Product Manager

Led three Staff PMs and helped scale Reddit Chat from zero to 50 million monthly active users.

042018 — 2022

Microsoft · Vancouver

Senior Product Manager

Built experiences across Teams—Meet Now, Together mode, Raise Hand and cross-platform chat.

052015 — 2018

Expedia & trivago · Düsseldorf

Senior Product Manager

Launched products across web and mobile, from hotel price prediction to recommendation tools.

062011 — 2015

Gaana · Times Internet

Product Manager

Built music recommendations, mobile experiences, personalisation and loyalty programmes.

07Before 2011

IBM · Manhattan Associates

Software Engineer

Started in software engineering and R&D after completing computer science at IIT Roorkee.

✳ Also an entrepreneur: I created two generative-AI music and video channels that reached 20,000+ subscribers in two months.

A few details

The person
behind the work.

Born in Bokaro Steel City. Educated at IIT Roorkee and IE Business School. At home wherever family is—and most at home when building what comes next.

Birthday27 November 1984

FromBokaro Steel City

EducationIIT Roorkee · IE University

Height5 ft 7 in

HeritageKshatriya

Current package₹1.5 crore / year

The people who ground me

Family is
everything.

My roots are in a family that believes in education, kindness and showing up for one another. I carry that with me, wherever I go.

Father

Late C H M Singh — retired Chemistry Lecturer

Mother

D Choudhary — retired teacher at SAIL School

Sister

My elder sister, married and a proud mum to two children

Learning, always.
B.Tech, Computer Science · IIT Roorkee
International MBA · IE University, Spain
Artificial Intelligence & Business Strategy · MIT

Away from the desk