Akshit Jain

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for high-traffic fintech platforms.
  • Scaled teams from zero to 32 members in one year.
  • Achieved significant improvements in payment processing efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Engineering Leader with extensive experience in scalable payment systems.

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Executive DevelopmentLeading Development Teams

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Agile methodologyAlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAmazon EC2Apache KafkaBlockchainBootstrapCC++CSSCassandraDockerGoGradleHTML5

About

Heading Gopay Online Ecosystem

Experience

Equiti group

2 roles

Group Head of Development, Client Platforms

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 1. Lead engineering for the Client Platforms team, solving complex user acquisition and retention challenges across the Equiti Group ecosystem.
  • 2. Established and scaled Equiti’s India office as Managing Director—building the operation from the ground up to a 32-member team within one year.
  • 3. Oversee end-to-end engineering across client-facing Mobile, Web, Acquisition Backend, and Payments Backend teams.
  • 4. Redesigned and modernized the engineering architecture for mobile, web, and backend systems(acquisition and payments domain).
  • 5. Improved NTA (Net Traded Accounts) conversion rates from 2.2% to 6.5% through architectural and product-experience enhancements.
  • 6. Reduced P99 latency for Payment APIs by 30%, and increased automated payouts by 40% by optimizing system design and workflows.
  • 7. Manage and mentor a 40+ member engineering organization; built both Payments and Acquisition engineering teams from scratch.
  • 8. Own the end-to-end hiring lifecycle—including talent strategy, interviewing, onboarding, team development, and cultural leadership.
  • 9. Lead cross-functional stakeholder management with Customer Support, Marketing, Sales, Business, and Back Office teams to identify operational challenges and translate them into engineering strategy and execution.
  • 10. Championing an observability-first engineering culture, ensuring systems are measurable, reliable, and proactively monitored.
  • 11. Partnering closely with the PMO team to modernize project management frameworks and enhance the overall software development lifecycle.
Executive DevelopmentLeading Development TeamsGoJavaNode.jsserverless framework+18

Head of Development

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I focused on leveraging technology to solve complex user acquisition and retention challenges at Equiti Group.
  • Directed multi-stack teams in the development of AI-driven distributed systems.
  • Enhanced payment automation to streamline operations and reduce latency.
  • Fostered a culture of innovation and data to support digital-led growth initiatives.
Leading Development Teams

Gopay indonesia

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2023May 2024 · 11 mos · On-site

  • I am leading Tokenisation Pod, which handles close to 2.5 million orders a day. This pod has three teams internally. As a lead, I
  • ● Manage expectations with engineering and product counterparts. The pod has backend, web frontend and QA devs.
  • ● Create processes for all teams in the pod for common coding practices, software development life cycle, incident management process.
  • ● Mentor 3 EM's and 3 TL's with a total pod size of 30+ engineers.
  • ● Responsible for delivering things across all teams and resolving any sort of blockers that impacts the
  • delivery.
  • ● Need to align stakeholders(EM's and TL's) for common vision of the pod and then take steps to execute
  • them.
  • ● Be responsible for the eective allocation of devs across the teams.

Engineering Manager

Nov 2020Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos · On-site

  • Handled two teams with 14+ reportees (Backend and Web Devs), 2+ QA's.
  • ● Driven a 2 year long complex project of integrating di�fferent order management systems which involved more than 30+ engineers, 4+QA's and stakeholder alignment to the highest level of Payments Vertical.
  • ○ Built a team of 10 devs and 3 QA's from scratch with engineers from di�erent work culture backgrounds.
  • ○ Aligned these engineers to a common set of work culture and processes.
  • ○ Migrated around 2.5 million transactions(10 di�erent payment methods) to a new system without
  • any change on the client side.
  • ○ Improved the SLO of the system from previous 99.5% to current 99.8%
  • ● Created a central automated employee onboarding template which got used in the entire pod for reducing the friction in onboarding.
  • ● Created a culture in the team for continuous feedback via dedicated 1:1's between each member of the team to avoid recency bias during performance reviews
  • ● Signo� of tech architectural decisions in both teams.
  • ● Planning, reporting, delivery, and people management of the team.
  • ● Managing expectations with product, business counterparts and engineering counterparts for prioritization
  • of features.
  • ● Recruitment of equal-level EM's, Engineers.

Gojek

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jan 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

  • ● Architect Checkout product for Online payments.
  • ○ Increased the acceptance rate of the payments to 94% from previous 72%
  • ○ Scaled the product from 0 txns/day to 1.5 million txns/day.
  • ○ This has more than 6 flavors to oer as a product, each of these flavors can be turned on using
  • configuration and zero code change.
  • ○ Achieved 99.9% requests with less than 500ms latency and 2xx status code.
  • ○ System that handles 30 RPS write calls and 1000 RPS read calls.
  • ● Built Pay By Phone Number Product for Online payments.
  • ○ This feature allows payment to any merchant using the phone number. Oers an alternative product
  • solution to merchants.
  • ● Developed an automated system to onboard merchants which was used by sales team to reduce dependency
  • on engineering team
  • ● Led a team of 8 people to develop the P2P payment system in Whatsapp.
  • ● Built MTLS as an authentication system to make apis more secure.
  • ● Introduced Vault as a credential store to the team and used it to store secrets to encrypt and decrypt the HTTP requests used in multiple strategic payment integrations.

Product Engineer

Jun 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · On-site

  • ● Worked in a gRPC microservices architecture.
  • ● Worked with Golang, Clojure, and Java.
  • ● Worked with Kafka for transaction processing.
  • ● Part of a team that developed the promotion engine of Gopay.
  • ● Part of a team that developed the refund engine of Gopay.
  • ● Part of the team that developed settlement/recon dependency between payment engine and recon engine.
  • ● Part of the team that developed strategic payments with Google.

Ishi systems inc.

3 roles

Programmer Analyst

Jun 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • Working on Real Time Video Processing Framework in Golang and C

Programmer Analyst

Jun 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • 1)Working as a full stack developer with focus on Golang, NodeJS and Scala
  • 2)Worked on projects involving memory management, cpu profiliing, concurrency management and garbage collection.
  • 3)Worked with the Hyperledger Fabric in the course of blockchain development
  • 4)Worked with container management and orchestration.(docker , docker-compose and rancher)
  • 5)Working with test driven development approach.
  • 6)Work involved architectural design of project, analyzing the scalabiltiy and performance of the project, git versioning, server side development,client side development(on demand)and testing.

Internee

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • Working on kafka messaging broker system. Testing it against HornetQ.

Ignus(cultural fest)

Pronites Head

Dec 2014Apr 2015 · 4 mos

Varchas(sports fest)

Marketing Head

Jul 2014Dec 2014 · 5 mos

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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