Akshay Singhal

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India11 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led innovative ML solutions for a leading fintech marketplace.
  • Achieved 1.5M credit card issuances in record time.
  • Pioneered unique insurance products for e-commerce customers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on data science and risk management.

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AlgorithmsAndroidApache PigApache SparkBig Data AnalyticsCC++Computer ScienceData AnalysisData ScienceData StructuresHTMLHadoopHiveJava

About

I’m a driven and forward-thinking professional with a passion for harnessing technology and data to streamline financial services, mitigate risk, and enable better decision-making. With extensive experience in lending and digital risk assessments, I thrive at the intersection of finance and innovation. Over the years I’ve led initiatives to architect and deploy risk frameworks, automate credit workflows, and implement real-time data analytics that drive growth, efficiency and resilience. I believe in turning complex challenges into elegant solutions—and that starts with deep domain understanding, a culture of experimentation, and a clear-eyed focus on user-centric outcomes. Key strengths include: Designing and executing risk-check processes for digital lending platforms, leveraging modern tools and data sources. Translating business requirements into scalable tech solutions that reduce manual effort and enhance accuracy. Collaborating across functions (product, operations, technology, compliance) to bridge the gap between vision and execution. Driving strategic initiatives that accelerate time-to-market, improve portfolio health, and elevate customer experience. Currently I’m deeply committed to advancing seamless disbursal and digital risk-checks for lending—ensuring that both business growth and risk management move forward in tandem. If you’re exploring ways to build smarter, faster and more trustworthy lending systems, let’s connect and explore what we can create together.

Experience

Werize

Senior Vice President

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Leading Data and AI initiatives to grow Werize into an institution by adding Decision Science and Agents behind every customer interaction.

Tata digital

Head - Analytics and Data Science, Financial Services

Mar 2022May 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Built the Analytics and Data Science Team from scratch for Tata Digital Financial services.
  • As part of the role, I spearheaded the innovation and implementation comprehensive ML solutions to create first of it's kind marketplace of Lending, Investments, and Insurance.
  • We took the Tata Neu HDFC Credit from launch to 1.5M card issuances becoming the largest single variant credit card issuer in the country. The Tata Neu risk score, income estimation and address confidence score were key initiatives accepted by HDFC BANK significantly improving our lead to disbursal efficiency more than 3x as compared to open market sourcing. Then we scaled this efficient funnel to more than 50% of the overall card issuance and eventually crossing the 100k monthly card issuance numbers within 2 years of launch.
  • Devised algorithms to create in-principle offer from most of the lenders on our marketplace without sharing PII protecting customer private data. Generated more than 50M pre-approved offers out of 200M captive customer base.
  • Similarly, we created the first of it's kind pre-approved instant term life insurance with Tata AIA without any checkups for elite e-commerce customers which are active across Tata Digital group and cross-selling engine for Motor, Health and other insurance products.

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3 roles

Director - Risk and Data Science

Promoted

Apr 2021Mar 2022 · 11 mos

Associate Director - Credit/Risk and Data Science Financing

Promoted

Apr 2020Mar 2021 · 11 mos

Sr. GM - Data Science Financing

Feb 2019Mar 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Lendingkart

Associate Director - Data Science

Nov 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • LendingKart Group aims to make working capital finance available at the fingertips of MSMEs and entrepreneurs.

Drivojoy

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2017Oct 2017 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • DrivoJoy is an on-demand garage for two wheeler doorstep servicing with demonstrated ability and an unparalleled experience in automobile repair and service economy and technology.
  • Managed 3 customer facing products and 5 internal products with a team of 5 people for better technical innovations
  • Led team to stabilize all the products and make them thread-safe across all interfaces.
  • Built in-house POS, CRM, Inventory Management, ERP, Alert management for Operations and Accounting.
  • Revamped Multi-level warehousing Inventory Management to track pipelined movement for barcoded spare parts.
  • Designed marketing tool for coupon management, landing page automation, PPI and PPR automation
  • Implemented SSO (Single Sign On) Authorization server across all products, domains and sub-domains.
  • Introduced vendor app to guarantee SOP execution, stop leakage points and onboard new vendors.
  • Managed to improve the team deliverability by double while ensuring agile environment

American express

Big Data Engineer II

Aug 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on multiple Data Science Projects in Hadoop, Hive, HBase and Spark while managing code using Maven and Spring
  • Implemented algorithms involving data normalization to improve data quality and detect garbage data to avoid skewness in analysis.
  • Developed data models to cluster highly dense data in real time and monitor their movement to detect anomalies and corruption.
  • Centralized single warehouse for several use cases to improve performance and developed critical matrix calculation methods to improvise data quality in real time.
  • Lead & supervised projects/use cases with architecture design, managed end-to-end integration and maintained sanity checks in production.
  • Finished 3rd across the company in Time Series Challenge to predict more than 350 matrices by building hybrid models of selective prediction algorithms analyzed over minimal training data using off sample - cross validation

Paypal

Big Data Engineer

Jun 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai, India

  • Implemented efficient Map‐Reduce Jobs in Hadoop for distributed parallel processing of Data > 1TB and managing the 10‐node Hadoop Cluster to provide the environment for the team
  • Built recommendation engines to give insights for the betterment of the customer's experience with the PayPal and engage them in a better way
  • Analyzed the market's behavioral and buying pattern based on transactional logs and demographical data to predict and recommend the potential consumers to our customers i.e. merchants.
  • Categorized garbage data present in PayPal data warehouse to improve the efficiency of the data science model
  • Innovated the idea of CSR in the model to make the product driving growth and innovation
  • Appreciated by the company by getting the role promotion from software engineer to big data engineer within 2 months

Rooja fashion pvt ltd

Web Development Internship On MVC Model

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · New Delhi, India

  • Devised the search bar and appended filtering/sorting features to induce advanced search from the entire store
  • Programmed conversion tracking from Facebook ads and analyzed the aggregated traffic by their sources
  • Automated order validation process by triggering a call to customer's phone & confirm/cancel the order

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

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

Jan 2010Jan 2014

DAV Public School, KOTA

High School — High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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