Vivek Tumrukota
AI Product Engineering Leader @ Superhuman
- San Francisco, CA
- Email via vivtum.com
- vivtum.com · linkedin.com/in/vtumrukota
Summary
Product engineering leader with 15 years across six venture-backed companies, combining hands-on engineering with 5+ years of management experience. Currently at Superhuman, I lead Mail’s Software Factory and AI Guild, building agent workflows that improve delivery, review, and verification across a 75-engineer business unit and shape how the company’s 650-person Product Engineering org ships. I operate across product, platform, enterprise customers, and engineering productivity—turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into measurable outcomes.
Career experience
Superhuman · AI Product Engineering Leader — Superhuman Mail
Nov 2025 – Present
AI Productivity Suite · Backed by IVP, Tiger Global, A16Z, BlackRock · San Francisco, CA
Tech stack: TypeScript · React · Go · PostgreSQL · AWS · GCP · Cursor · Cloud Agents & Automations · MCP · Braintrust · Honeycomb · Playwright
- Lead the Software Factory and AI Guild for Mail’s 75-engineer business unit and help shape the company-wide Software Factory across Superhuman’s 650-person Product Engineering org; presented the program at the Q3 board meeting to executives and investors
- Grew agent-written code from 4% to 25%+ of Mail’s pull requests and wrote the agent-adoption playbook other business units now follow
- Took automated AI code review from prototype to production across five codebases; it now handles 45% of eligible approvals
- Built secure test infrastructure that lets AI agents build, sign in, test and verify their own changes end to end, without a human in the loop
- Shipped Mail’s Webpack v5 upgrade within my first 4 months, then led the plan and 6-week rollout to migrate to the latest React version, diving deep into the codebase to understand and modernize its core and legacy patterns
- Led strategic enterprise work for two of Superhuman’s largest accounts (a ‘Mag 7’ tech company and a global streaming platform), fixing sign-on blockers to unblock account expansion; built a revenue audit that corrected billing across 33+ enterprise accounts
- Led GDPR data-deletion work across Engineering, Legal, Privacy and Analytics, opening the door to EU and regulated-industry customers
Productboard · AI Product Engineering Lead
Mar 2024 – Nov 2025
AI-Powered Product Management Software · Backed by Dragoneer, Tiger Global, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins · San Francisco, CA & Prague, CZ
Tech stack: TypeScript · React · GraphQL · Relay · Ruby on Rails · Kotlin · OpenAI · Anthropic · PostgreSQL · AWS · Kafka · Datadog
- First engineering hire in Productboard’s SF office; built and launched ‘Pulse’, the AI Voice-of-Customer product line, which generated 7 figures of new business within a year
- Drove agentic workflows and LLM development practices that reached 70%+ AI-written code and saved six figures of developer time in two quarters
- Ran 80+ interviews and built the rubrics that hired 14 engineers in 10 months
- Re-architected the app’s routing to load data in parallel, cutting page load times by a full second globally
Trustero · Product Engineering Lead
Nov 2022 – Feb 2024
AI-Powered SaaS Trust & Compliance Infrastructure · Palo Alto, CA
Tech stack: TypeScript · React · Go · gRPC · OpenAI · MySQL · AWS · Datadog · Cypress · Jest
- Employee #19, reporting to the CEO; led the 2-person Applications team while shipping roadmap features across the stack myself
- Rebuilt the CI/CD and test pipeline, cutting run times by 32%
- Rolled out an engineering-wide unit, integration and end-to-end testing strategy covering every critical business flow
- Built the product analytics infrastructure leadership used to track north-star metrics and KPIs
Personal Sabbatical
Jul 2022 – Nov 2022
My wife’s company went through an acquisition & we decided to travel the world!
Sprig · Product Engineering Manager — Core App & Growth Teams
Jan 2021 – Jul 2022
AI-Powered Product Insights Platform · San Francisco, CA
Tech stack: TypeScript · React · Node · Postgres · Redis · ClickHouse · Kubernetes · AWS · Terraform · LaunchDarkly · Datadog
- Employee #18; hired and led 9 engineers across two full-stack teams (Core App and Growth) as engineering grew from 8 to 40+
- Cut on-call alert noise by 60% while holding a 99% SLA on customer-reported bugs
- Grew paid signups 15% in one quarter through A/B-tested signup and onboarding changes
- Owned feature flagging and QA, delivering zero outages over six months
WorkSpan · Member of Technical Staff → Senior Engineering Manager
Nov 2015 – Jan 2021
Enterprise Co-Selling and Partner Management Platform · Foster City, CA
Tech stack: TypeScript · CoffeeScript · Angular · Python · Google App Engine · Jest · Jenkins
- Employee #9; helped grow WorkSpan to 115+ employees and 45 engineers over five years
- As an IC, designed and built core system components: in-app navigation, Google SSO, the third-party integration framework and the product analytics behind rapid feature experiments
- Grew into leading the 9-person US engineering team; owned the defect and outage processes behind Fortune 500 SLAs and the US technical hiring loop
Texas Instruments · Technical Sales Representative
Jun 2011 – Oct 2014
Analog & Embedded Processing Semiconductors · Dallas, TX & San Francisco, CA
- Helped launch TI’s Bay Area startup sales office; built a qualification method adopted by other regions that surfaced $7M+ in new revenue, and managed $4M ARR across 40 accounts at 150% of quota
Education
University of Florida · B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering
Jun 2007 – May 2011
Gainesville, FL
- Honors: Cum Laude
- Minors: Sales Engineering, Business Administration
