Ajeesh Achuthan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founder of India's first developer payment platform.
Led product development for a seamless payment integration service.
Scaled engineering teams and launched multiple successful products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech entrepreneur with expertise in payment systems and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business DevelopmentPayment SystemsApisMobile Applications

Other Skills

Ad-techAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidC++Credit Card Transaction ProcessingCryptographyE-commerceElectronic Payment ProcessingIntegrationJavaScript LibrariesMobile DevicesPHPPayment Card ProcessingPayment GatewaysREST API

About

An entrepreneur at heart, loves building products for scale. Developed Zwitch, a developer based payment platform which introduced tokenisation based payment sdk, zwitch.js. Zwitch was first of its kind to introduce seamless payment integration by a no-nonsense sandbox and developer documentation back in 2013. Currently building Open, scaling up the product.

Experience

Open financial technologies private limited

Co-Founder & CTO

Jun 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Open offers an SME business banking service that offers a business current account that combines everything from payments to invoicing and automated bookkeeping in one simple service. The current account is powered by ICICI bank and the platform also let you connect your existing bank accounts in its unified dashboard.
Open is backed by investments from Recruit (one of the largest consumer internet company from Japan), Unicorn India Ventures , Art Capital ( Family office of Yes bank founder, Rana Kapoor), Betaplus capital partners, Amrish Rau ( MD & CEO, Payu India), Jitendra Gupta ( MD, Payu India) and Aprameya Radhakrishnan ( Co-founder, TaxiforSure)

Business DevelopmentPayment SystemsAPIsIntegration

Payu

Lead Engineer

Oct 2016 – Apr 2017 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

After PayU acquisition, Sellfie was rebranded as PayUNow.
Responsible for a smoother integration with PayU payments systems and lead a team of 15 engineers.

Payment SystemsTeam Management

Citrus payment solutions pvt. ltd

Lead Engineer (Acquired by PayU India)

Sep 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Build Sellfie - A contextual commerce product from ground up.
Achieved a very short GTM by rolling out web, android and ios versions out to market in 8 months. Designed and hands-on developed backend APIs with a team of 2 engineers, scaled the engineering team from 2 to 10 on different technology verticals.

APIsMobile ApplicationsTeam Management

Zwitch payments

Co-founder & CTO (Acquired by Citrus Pay)

Nov 2012 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Co-founder & CTO of Zwitch Payments - India's first developer payment platform. Responsible for leading the platform development, seamless APIs and connectivity to processing networks.
Zwitch Payments is India's first All-in-One payment stack for developers.With Zwitch payments, your customers will never have to leave your website or mobile app for entering their card detail resulting in increased conversions and sales. Our natively web & mobile libraries -Zwitch.JS and Zwitch Mobile SDK allows you to seamlessly integrate payment processing into your website or mobile app with few lines of code using a technology called tokenisation that ensures that no sensitive data ever touches your servers.
At Zwitch, I head the design and development of the Zwitch payment platform that comprises
of the core processing platform, developer APIs, integration with third party processors and payment applications. I was instrumental in conceptualising and launching the native web & mobile SDK libraries using tokenisation technology making Zwitch among the only payment platform in India to offer seamless payment integration to merchants with minimum PCI Compliance.
My responsibilities also include managing the three member engineering team,understanding the
product requirements and creating the engineering roadmap and innovating new technologies &
implementing best practises.
The service have acquired 250 customers within first three months. We power some of the large enterprises and emerging startups like Onmobile Global, Medine, Shipdart, Uberhealth, SuperProfs, testpress , Buspapa , Offergrid , Inolyst, End2End , jackofallthreadsraise etc.We also offer instant online activation which means you can get started within minutes of signing up.

Payment SystemsAPIsTokenisationTeam Management

Inloc8

Co-founder & CTO

Jul 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Thiruvananthapuram Taluk, India

Inloc8 is an indoor location based ad-tech platform. The product which was in its pilot stages, helps someone find directions to stores inside large buildings and shopping malls. Stores can push offers and ads to consumers for better engagement. The app leverages existing wifi infrastructure inside a building to compute the location of a mobile device.

Ad-techMobile Applications