Kapil Tundwal

Current

Founder & Principal Engineer, Emerging Technologies at Quark, Inc.

Past

Director, OEM Business Unit at Quark, Inc.
Solutions Architect at Quark, Inc.

Education

Guru Jambeshwar University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Kapil Tundwal’s Summary

10 years of experience as Director / Lead Architect in software development and consulting.

Good blend of experience in development and business of software and services. Balanced outlook towards conventional and disruptive technologies.

Demonstrated technical leadership, strong creative and entrepreneurial spirit, market trends analysis, ability to work well with off site development teams and ability to work with unknown/incomplete requirements. Focus on ever changing requirements, time lines and budget.

Described by colleagues as out of the box thinker, articulate, highly entrepreneurial and leads by example.

Kapil Tundwal’s Specialties:

Business
- Writing business proposals, RFPs
- Pre/post sales customer relationships
- Led projects for Fortune 500 companies

Technical
- Strong hold on C++, HTTP-XML model
- Java spring framework, XMPP protocol and Amazon AWS, DevPay
- Developed Apple Aperture plugin using Cocoa
- Quark and InDesign plugin development

Project Management
- Highly skilled in mapping requirements to code
- Spotting and cultivating talent

Industry
- Indepth understanding of publishing industry

Kapil Tundwal’s Experience

Founder & Principal Engineer, Emerging Technologies

Quark, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Create value innovation to take company into next era of publishing using in-house, partner's and customer's development, product management and services groups.

Led services group to helped leading financial analyst firm to upgrade its content production and delivery system using leading XML DB, layout rendering engine and content/workflow management system.

Conceived, developed and shipped Microsoft Silverlight based page viewing application for catalog market. http://labs.quark.com/projectdetail.aspx?did=20 http://www.podtech.net/home/4892/whats-new-quarks-using-silverlight

Researched, developed requirements and prototyped for automatic layout pagination system using genetic algorithms and rubber/steel band concepts using .Net.

Conceived and developed messaging server plugin. System is served using Amazon Services (EC2, S3, DevPay).

Conceived and prototyped Apple Aperture (http://labs.quark.com/projectdetail.aspx?did=19), Flickr, TokBox and Twitter integrations for publishing tools.
Director, OEM Business Unit

Quark, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2003 — July 2006 (2 years 8 months)

Augmented product management team by hiring technology management expert from an ISV.

Delivered version 4.x and 5.x on time, on budget. Tiered pricing to cater to low-end players.

25% growth in revenues, 200% growth in partners, helped maintain 2 major customers committed to other Quark products.

Reduced development cost by 30% by successfully integrating US and Indian development teams. Increased productivity of Product Manager in India. Transitioned 20% modules from US to India.

Successful execution of relationship with a large service provider leading to long term OEM contracts.

Completed 1 big services project (for #1 book publisher in US with 2 small size ISVs. Project length = 8 months. Team = 7 software developers and 3 fresh graduates). 2 months into the project I realized there was a lack of project and build management. Teams were spread across the globe and sense of ownership was missing. I took the initiative and installed software development processes. Customer immediately recognized my extra contribution and commitment. My initiative played a part in keeping a competitor at bay.
Solutions Architect

Quark, Inc.

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1998 — January 2004 (5 years 3 months)

Responsible for leading joint product development with key partners. Responsible for developing desktop, server products and their SDKs.

Kapil Tundwal’s Education

Guru Jambeshwar University

Bachelor of Engineering , Electronics and Communications , 1994 — 1998

Graduated with First Division and received scholarships throughout the program. Degree is equivalent to 4 year BS degree offered in US.