Varun Cumbamangalam
Strategist. Builder.Technical product leader.
I am a product leader with 7+ years of experience shipping medical IoT, edge AI, and wearable platforms in the US, UK, Belgium, and India. I take products from vision to launch, set the roadmap, keep stakeholders aligned, and work closely with engineering. I use AI-assisted workflows to move faster through discovery and requirements while keeping release quality high.
Finding the right problem
User research, technical discovery, and product framing before roadmap commitment.
Turning ambiguity into direction
Clear priorities, requirements, and decisions that teams can execute.
Aligning product and engineering
Tradeoffs grounded in customer needs, business goals, and technical reality.
Shipping, learning, improving
Launch, feedback, and iteration without losing momentum or product intent.
Domain expertise
Hardware & IoT
ESP32, STM32, Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson Nano, BLE sensors, embedded Linux
Mobile Apps
Flutter (iOS & Android), BLE integration, offline-first sync
AI & ML
PyTorch, ONNX, and TFLite for training and edge deployment
Frontend
React, Next.js, TypeScript, real-time dashboards
Backend & APIs
Go/Gin, Node.js, and Python/FastAPI for REST and WebSocket services
DevOps & Cloud
AWS (EC2, S3, SNS), Docker, systemd, CI/CD pipelines
Selected projects
View allHow I use AI in the build
AI tools are not shortcuts. I use them to prototype architectures, test edge cases, and explore options early. I still make the design calls and own the production code. That applies whether I am training disease detection models or building autonomous agents.
