Ashesh Nishant

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 23 years of experience in technology leadership.
  • Proven track record in managing large teams.
  • Expertise in integrating Generative AI into workflows.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in B2C sectors with expertise in scalable platforms and AI integration.

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AWS LambdaAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Application ArchitectureArtificial Intelligence (AI)BlockchainDistributed ArchitectureE-LearningEnterprise SoftwareEntrepreneurshipExecutive LeadershipInstructional DesignInternet of Things (IoT)JavaJava Enterprise Edition

About

- Seasoned technology leader with 23 years of experience across various B2C domains - Ride Hailing, EV, AI, OTT, Ad Tech, Online gaming, eCommerce and Financial Derivatives. - Proven track record in senior management and executive leadership roles at Amazon, Hotstar, Ola, MPL, Warner Bros Discovery, Jio lading teams ranging from 60 to 400 people. - Entrepreneurial experience with a 3-year stint running a sports tech startup. - Expertise in full stack ownership, highly scalable cloud native platforms, and driving efficiency through org restructuring and cost optimization. - Hands-on leader for all verticals of Technology Org spanning Mobile/Web, Microservices, Data Engineering, Quality Automation, Performance & Chaos Engineering, Machine Learning, Security, Devops, SRE, NOC and Program Management. - Emerging experience in integrating Generative AI in all aspects of SDLC and workflows to improve productivity.

Experience

Rippling

Sr Director Engineering

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

Ola

VP of Technology

Jan 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Warner bros. discovery

Group Vice President, Head of India Dev Center

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I am a site Leader for India Development Center, driving excellence in Video Content Supply chain, Metadata systems, Quality and Automation, Video Ad Tech (Dynamic Ad Insertion, Manifest Stitching, Supply-side Platform, Ad Server, etc), Data Science, DevOps and SRE, Client engineering for Aggregated TV Everywhere(for web, mobile and Connected TV platforms).

Mobile premier league (mpl)

Senior Vice President Of Technology

Sep 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building the largest eSports mobile platform in the world \m/

Jio platforms limited (jpl)

VP Strategic Initiative, Chief Architect

Jul 2018Jun 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Hotstar

VP Engineering

Dec 2016Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

  • The charter is to build a world class engineering team on a world class engineering stack delivering a solution for an OTT Video platform including solutions for Analytics, Clickstream, Demographic Ad targeting, Predictive analysis, Micro-services, Cloud management, Delivery network, et al.

Melorra

CTO

Apr 2016Dec 2016 · 8 mos · Bangalore

Amazon

Sr Development Manager

Mar 2014Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

10wickets

Founder, CEO, CTO

May 2010Mar 2014 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore, India

  • We are working on an ambitious project to create an online platform to bring all elements of the sporting ecosystem under one roof. The key challenges that excite me about this are the creation of a homogeneous model for Sports and a graph that represent all the participating entities in the Ecosystem.
  • I personally wear multiple hats and am absolutely hands on with all our functions - Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Architecture, Product, UI.

Dataportability.org

Evangelist

Nov 2007Nov 2010 · 3 yrs

  • This was a not-for-profit evangelistic exercise for creating a blue print for making the social-graph data portable across across various social or interest-based networks. It was a a sort of precursor to the Social-Connect and Open Social APIs.

Barclays global investors

VP, Technology, Fixed income & Derivatives

Nov 2006Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Designing and architecting applications for trade-capture, accounting, reconciliation and reporting of derivatives.
  • Supporting the application and the middle/front office users
  • Managing product lifecycle and releases.
  • Creating re-usable enterprise frameworks and components

Sapient

Sr. Associate Technology

Sep 2005Oct 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • As a senior associate technology, I have to play the role of an architect and team-lead in a globally distributed delivery model.

Accenture

Team Lead

Jan 2003Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

  • I was a team-lead and GDD onsite coordinator for a project in Financial domain. Was involved with design, implementation and support of a complex n-tiered web application using Java/J2EE technologies. Also participated in CMM Level 5 audits.

Wipro technologies

Systems Engineer

Jan 2001Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

  • I was a software developer for an n-tiered web application for a large client in finance domain. Worked with java/J2EE technologies during the long engagement on this project.

Geine technologies

Software developer

Jan 2000Jan 2001 · 1 yr

  • I was a software developer for this Internet start-up company. I also managed technology training for peers. Technology exposure was in Java and J2EE.

Education

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

Masters — Computers

Jan 1998Jan 2001

Institute of Management Technology (IMT)

Post Grad — Computer applications

Jan 1997Jan 2000

Delhi University (KMC)

Bachelors in Economics — Economics

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