Ashish Anant Saxena

CTO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India16 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

16+ years of engineering leadership experience.
Expert in building platforms from the ground up.
Strong focus on customer satisfaction and business growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementBusiness Process Improvement

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Business StrategyCloud ComputingCoaching & MentoringCompetitive AnalysisComputer ScienceData StructuresDatabasesDistributed SystemsJVMJavaLinuxNoSQL

About

Seasoned leader with 16+ years of engineering leadership experience across diverse domains including Azure Cost Management, SaaS commerce, payments, cloud technologies, internet-scale travel platform, Azure and AWS infrastructure, and low-latency FinTech, I excel at building highly effective platforms and products from the ground up. My passion lies in delighting customers and driving business growth through high-performing, empowered org.

Experience

Microsoft

Principal Engineering Leader

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Azure Commerce

Atlassian

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Commerce Cloud Platform grounds up for all things commerce (recurring subscription, billing, Stripe) for various Atlassian SaaS Products.

Project ManagementBusiness Process ImprovementCoaching & Mentoring

Engineering Manager

Apr 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Project ManagementBusiness Process ImprovementCoaching & Mentoring

Expedia group

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Expedia Group Cloud Platform on top of AWS for all things Cloud (templatised microservices, containers, CI/CD, AWS Infrastructure, Connectivity, Security, Cost Management etc) enabling journey to Cloud.

Project ManagementBusiness Process ImprovementCoaching & Mentoring

Sr. Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2017 – Feb 2018 · 11 mos

Expedia Platform Team enabling journey from monolithic to microservices architecture.

SDE II

Apr 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

Ion trading

Software Developer

Aug 2011 – Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Noida

As part of Core Architecture Team (CAT), works on ultra low latency messaging library for distributed, in memory applications with Publish Subscriber, Request Reply protocols and Message Queues.

Ibm

2 roles

Systems Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2009 – Jul 2011 · 2 yrs

Starting career in emerging Cloud Computing domain, got an opportunity to work on entire technology stack covering Java Enterprise Application, Databases, Linux Virtualization Technology, Storage Subsystems, Networks.
Worked on the development of IBM’s Cloud Computing Product Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TivSAM). TivSAM is a Java Enterprise Application with workflow engine that enables automated provisioning of Virtual Machines on various virtualization platforms VMWare, KVM etc .Key contributions involved designing and implementation of an analytics based module that analyzed the user request trends to find frequently requested configurations, pre provisioning it thereby creating the Virtual Machine cache and hence allowing the quick provisioning on actual request.

IBM Extreme Blue Intern

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · IBM India Software Labs Pune

Masheets - Colloborative Online ODS spreadsheet Software for Mashups
Built an Online Spreadsheet Software supporting Open Document Spreadsheet (ODS) file format with collaborative features and a spreadsheet iWidget for IBM Lotus Mashup-Maker. The online spreadsheet was integrated with services internal to IBM like Bluecard service, Cattail and external services like Google Maps etc. to provide a rich GUI for developing Mashups and provided better visualization of online documents.