Naveen Kumar
About

A data nerd turned product leader.

Hey, I'm Naveen. I build AI-first healthcare products and the teams that ship them, based in Pittsburgh.

I have been developing software since 2011, with 15+ years leading cross-functional teams to ideate, design, build, and launch healthcare SaaS, with a special focus on patient access. For the last decade at Treatspace, I helped take the company from a referral network to a full AI-first patient-access platform, and I now lead engineering, product, and a company-wide AI-first transformation.

My work lives at the crossroads of strategy and engineering: turning messy clinical problems into products real care teams actually adopt, and holding AI to the evidence rather than the hype.

How I work

Start with the care experience

Watch the real workflow before writing a single requirement. The desk, the queue, the clinician with forty seconds.

Hold AI to the evidence

Ship what is credible, name what is overstated. The hard part is rarely the model, it is the adoption.

Build for adoption

Measure success in workflow change and edited output, not in features shipped.

Scale the team, not just the product

The organization that ships is the real deliverable. Hire well, then get out of its way.

Education & certifications

Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. Healthcare Policy & ManagementBusiness Intelligence, Data Analytics · 2016
B.S. Information Systems2011
Certifications
PMPCSPOAI PM NanodegreeAI for HealthcareITIL 4LSSGB
Beyond the work

When I'm not deep in a roadmap, you'll find me in Pittsburgh with my wife Hallie, our two golden retrievers Cece and Lucy, and our newest addition, a brand-new baby who is keeping us happily sleep-deprived.