Sumit Chakraborty

Background

About Sumit Chakraborty

Sumit has more than thirty years’ experience across the industry segments of R&D at Government of India, Delivery Management in Indian IT Services Industry, Product Development in the EdTech space and startup ecosystems of EdTech and Insurance Technologies. He started his career in 1991 with the prestigious Integrated Guided Missiles Program, headed by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, as a scientist at DRDL Hyderabad. For the next eight years he worked in the areas of mathematical modelling, structural design, systems simulation, algorithms, and software development. The work was primarily focused on research and development in cutting age technologies. In the next seventeen years, between and 2016, Sumit worked in the area of delivery management at Satyam Computer Services Limited, Cognizant Technologies, Barclays Offshore Development Centre, and Wipro Technologies. In this industry segment he worked in the area of banking and finance for marque customers like the NYSE, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Chase, Equifax, and Barclays Bank. He worked in executing large programs in the domains of Private Banking and Investment Banking. Though his technology forte is J2EE, yet he executed projects across the technology spectrum. From 2017 till 2021, Sumit has been involved in building the EdTech vertical for Ace Create Learning, a large education player in Karnataka with over 25 campuses and students. For 2 years (2022-2023), as an extension to the EdTech journey, Sumit was involved in building a product startup in the EdTech field under a subsidiary entity of Ace Creative Learning, named Novus Learnings Private Limited. In April 2024, Sumit has joined a startup venture in the Insurance Technology Domain, named BerryBox Benefits Limited.