Naman Kumar

Résumé

Naman Kumar

AI & Product Leader | Hands-on Builder | YC S16

San Francisco Bay Area · ping@namank.com · LinkedIn

Summary

Entrepreneurial product leader and YC-backed founder with 15+ years building developer platforms, wallets and AI systems. Drove $200M+ in transaction volume, scaled account abstraction to 2.1M agents and humans, and increased usable ML training data 10×. Built GPT-3 customer discovery, voice and messaging agents, and software-delivery harnesses.

Experience

Founder - AI & Product Leader · Measured Intuition

Aug 2024 - Present · San Francisco

ROI-led AI consulting, implementation, and fractional leadership. Assessed workflows and existing systems, prioritized opportunities by business value, and led technical delivery and adoption.

  • Led discovery and implementation of voice and SMS agents for a healthcare provider, targeting 95% shorter waits before intake and less manual coordination.
  • Built model-agnostic agent harnesses and API/MCP integrations with persistent context, permission checks and verification throughout execution.
  • Redesigned product-management workflows around AI at a fintech company and led adoption across engineering, QA, IT, marketing and product.
  • Previously launched and scaled a developer platform for Fortune 100 clients, owning strategy, P&L, enterprise contract negotiations and technical integrations.
  • Advised startup clients and, in earlier portfolio work, 100+ companies on product and GTM. Built a GPT-3 agent to turn portfolio-company data into targeted sales prospects.

Product Lead · Stellar Development Foundation

Aug 2023 - Nov 2024 · San Francisco

  • Led account-abstraction product strategy and adoption, scaling the solution from zero to 2.1 million agents and humans.
  • Owned product strategy and launch for a stablecoin developer platform, aligning core-node, RPC, SDK and wallet priorities with ecosystem adoption.
  • Established ecosystem standards and governance with developers and partners, coordinating shared priorities across the developer community.

Product Leader · Dapper Labs

Nov 2021 - Dec 2022 · San Francisco

  • Owned wallet vision, strategy and roadmap, delivering initiatives that drove $200M+ in transaction volume.
  • Led wallet integrations across multiple marketplaces and product lines, aligning smart contract engineering, legal, privacy, compliance and customer service.
  • Led product strategy for wallet compliance tools, cutting investigations from days to minutes by unifying transaction and customer data across millions of records.

Product Manager · Augur

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 · San Francisco

  • Led Augur Turbo's product reset and launch, rallying engineering and the community behind lower-cost trading, automated market resolution and a simpler experience for non-traders.
  • Secured $1M in liquidity incentives from Polygon and established Chainlink and Polygon partnerships to support protocol adoption.
  • Cut the product development cycle from two years to three months through targeted hiring, experimentation and clearer planning and launch processes.

Founder & CEO · Airo Health

May 2013 - Dec 2020 · San Francisco

  • Founded a YC-backed wearable and mobile health business tracking calorie intake and stress/performance. Co-invented non-invasive calorie-tracking technology combining physiological sensors and ML. Product experiments increased acquisition by 20% and retention by 10%.
  • Increased usable ML training data 10×, from 200 to 2,000 meal records in about three months, by redesigning participant onboarding, ground-truth collection and immediate data-quality feedback.
  • Cut development time by 75% through workflow redesign and automation across testing, deployment, marketing and support.

Earlier engineering

BlackBerry / Research In Motion, 2008-2010, San Francisco: Sole developer of a server/connection simulator; embedded radio and enterprise performance work. Berumen Design, 2012, San Francisco: Built a JavaScript BI dashboard.

Technical experience

AI systems: Agent orchestration, persistent context, retrieval, structured outputs, policy-constrained execution and evaluation. Anthropic/OpenAI APIs, Codex, Claude Code and Claude Enterprise rollout experience.

Engineering: Python (8 years), JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Next.js, React Native/Expo, FastAPI, SQL/SQLite, API/MCP integrations and OAuth/PKCE.

Developer infrastructure and fintech: Stablecoins, account abstraction, wallets, RPC/SDKs and privacy/ZK tradeoffs.

Education

University of Waterloo | BASc, Honors Computer Engineering; Human-Computer Interaction emphasis

Y Combinator | S16