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Ashish Arora

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 25 years of experience in full stack engineering leadership.
  • Led global teams of over 200 engineers in fraud engineering.
  • Expertise in building scalable, fault-tolerant systems handling millions of transactions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce engineering leader with extensive experience in scalable systems.

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Agile MethodologiesApacheCloud ComputingDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsHadoopJavaLarge Scale SystemsManagementMySQLOpen SourceProgram ManagementProject ManagementRESTRepresentational State Transfer (REST)

About

Full Stack Engineering Leader with 25 years experience in building scalable web products and leading large Global teams. Lead Merchant, Dineout, Fraud and Finance Engineering teams at Swiggy. Previously Lead a Global Fraud Engineering team of 200+ engineers at Barclays across UK, US and India building cutting edge Fraud Platforms from grounds up while keeping the lights on for the Legacy. Experience in building scalable, fault tolerant, multi tenant real time systems using open source technologies handling 100s of millions of transactions per day. Have built 0-1 products as well as scaled existing products. Specialties: Product Development, FinTech, Scalable Platforms, Big Data, Machine Learning, AWS, Full Stack Development, REST Micro Services, Web Technologies

Experience

Wex

India Head and VP of Engineering, International Mobility

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Ubank

2 roles

Site Lead and Head of Technology, UBank India

Jan 2024Jan 2025 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Building the best Digital Bank in Australia.
  • Setup the India Development centre, defining the workforce structure, Cost allocations and Hiring
  • Leading the Technology teams at UBank in India, defining the technology roadmap and execution for multiple products with end to end ownership from Bangalore.

Technology Strategy Consultant

Aug 2023Dec 2023 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Working with UBank Leadership team on defining the future technical strategy for building the best Digital Bank in Australia.
  • Help setup the India Development centre, defining the workforce structure, Cost allocations and Hiring

Swiggy

VP of Engineering

Aug 2019Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Leading the teams for Supply side of Technology for Swiggy, including Vendor Integrations, Realtime processing and fulfilment of orders, Vendor Servicing/Insights, Vendor Payouts and Fraud Detection & Prevention.
  • Leading the team to build Swiggy Diners product(offline Dining) from 0-1 and launched across 24 cities. Drove the Dineout acquisition for Swiggy from Technology perspective.
  • Leading Product Management for TnS and Finance.
  • Worked with Clients and Business teams to drive the roadmap for the Products.
  • Leading a team of 170+ Engineers and Product Managers.

Barclays

Global Head of Fraud Engineering, Director

Apr 2018Aug 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Northampton, United Kingdom

  • Leading Global Fraud Engineering for Barclays(200+ Engineers) handling Fraud Detection, ID&V and Case Management with teams across US, UK and India.
  • Working closely with Fraud Strategy Business and Fraud Operations teams to define the future of the Product.
  • Building Fraud Machine Learning Platform on the AWS cloud to take real time decisions for all Retail Banking, Credit Card, Debit Card and Corporate Payments at Barclays Bank Globally.
  • All transactions at Barclays are fraud profiled by the systems that my team builds.

Paypal

3 roles

Director, Software Development

Apr 2016Apr 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Built Products for Merchants using Data at PayPal to help them manage and grow their business.
  • Lead Data, Reporting, Personalization and Insights at PayPal.
  • Lead the team building Recommendation Platform for Machine Learning Models.
  • Lead the engineering for next generation Data and Insights team at PayPal to help Merchants manage and grow their business. Worked on cutting edge technologies in Big Data and Analytics.
  • Acted as Local Product Leader for Merchant Data Product Management teams in Bangalore.
  • Managed a team of 50+ including Managers and Developers. Experienced in leading cross-geography teams across India and US.

Senior Manager

Promoted

Sep 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Relocated to San Jose, USA during this period.
  • Lead a couple of key initiatives at PayPal, leading teams across India and US.
  • Lead the Engineering team building the Global Merchant Onboarding for PayPal, catering to local regulatory needs across all 180+ countries.
  • Lead the Resolution Center experience for PayPal Merchants and Consumers for Dispute Resolutions.
  • Managed a team of 40+, including Managers, Developers and QA engineers.

Manager, Software Development

Sep 2012Sep 2014 · 2 yrs

  • Powering the Account Activity, Transactions History and Transaction Details for PayPal Customers.
  • Building scalable platform for handling 100 million User Activities per day and provide blazing fast transaction search to PayPal customers.

24/7, inc

Associate Director, Engineering

Dec 2011Aug 2012 · 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Lead a team of 15 including developers and Engineering Managers.
  • Owned up the PxAssist Product initiative for intuitive and predictive analytics driven assisted interactions.
  • Worked on hiring strategy and plans to hire for the Product Engineering group.

Yahoo

Engineering Manager

Jul 2007Dec 2011 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Engineering Manager: Reputation Platform and Yahoo Application Platform Feb 2011 – Dec 2011
  • Conceptualized the user reputation platform and high-level architecture.
  • Worked with Yahoo properties to understand their requirements and defining the requirements of the reputation platform.
  • Lead a team of 11 members across multiple products (YAP and User Reputation).
  • Engineering Manager: User Generated Content Platform(UGC Cloud) Sep 2009 – Feb 2011
  • Lead multiple projects in the UGC platforms group at Yahoo.
  • Handled the Message Boards, Polls and Ratings platform components in the UGC Cloud. This involved PRD Reviews, Design Reviews, Tasks Planning and Executions, Managing schedules etc.
  • Handled the Editorial Tools and Widgets for the UGC Cloud Platforms.
  • Handled internal customer integrations and interactions for UGC Cloud including providing solutions, prioritizing their requirements for UGC Cloud.
  • Delivered the first few versions of the platforms with some major customers on boarded including News and Search.
  • Principal Engineer: Content Platform May 2008 - Sep 2009
  • Technical Lead: Publishing Platform Jul 2007 – May 2008

Oat systems

Technical Lead

Mar 2005May 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Designed and implemented the core components of Oat Foundation Suite RFID Data Management Platform.

Microsoft corporation

Software Design Engineer

May 2000May 2005 · 5 yrs · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Software Design Engineer: Excel Mobile Jul 2003 - May 2005
  • Lead the effort for Excel on Windows Mobile.
  • Designed and implemented the Charting engine for Excel.
  • Software Design Engineer: VJ# (Visual J Sharp) May 2000 - Jun 2003
  • Built core Java Class Libraries for VJ# (Microsoft Java) including AWT, Swing, Utils and other Core classes.

Ibm global services

Software Engineer

Jul 1999Apr 2000 · 9 mos · Bangalore

Education

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

BE — CSE

Jan 1995Jan 1999

DAV College Chandigarh

Jan 1993Jan 1995

St Thomas School Jagadhri

Jan 1980Jan 1993

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