Bhargava Krishna

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led industry-first launches in online payments.
Expert in stakeholder management and business negotiations.
Successfully set up business operations for startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with extensive experience in payments and microfinance.

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AnalyticsBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyE-commerceMicro InsuranceMicrofinanceOperations ManagementPayment IndustryPaymentsProduct InnovationTeam ManagementWallets

About

I’m a seasoned Internet/Ecommerce, Payments/Fintech professional. I’ve led industry first and large scale launches related to Online Payments, Fintech and Microfinance domains, aiming at a superior customer experience, higher business, better profitability. I was instrumental in leading capacity planning for country’s flagship and largest e-commerce events. I’m a proven leader at external stakeholder management, business engagements, negotiations for driving organisational priorities with major partners (the largest banks across India). Good at cross functional collab involving a multitude of internal stakeholders. Successfully setup/run business operations from scratch for a start up, ECommerce and Microfinance companies.

Experience

Gokwik

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Oct 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Remote

Juspay

Director, Partnerships

Mar 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Flipkart

4 roles

Associate Director, Returns

Feb 2019 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs

Redefining customer returns policy, process and experience on ecommerce.

Associate Director, Payments

Promoted

Jun 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

Business development and partnerships with key payment players, banks, acquirers, partners, networks on key payments initiatives.
Working on several industry first projects (again!) on payments with potential to redefine the domestic landscape.

Senior Manager, Payments Business Development

Aug 2014 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Business development with key payment players, acquirers on payments initiatives.
Led payments capacity planning for India's flagship ecommerce events (Flipkart's Big Billion Days)
Cross functional collaboration on multiple initiatives on online payments aimed at superior customer experience on payments.
Moving key efficiency metrics related to online payments.
Led industry first launches in online payments space that have redefined customer experience.

Manager, Payments Business Development and Operations

Jun 2011 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Business engagements and external stakeholder management (including large banks and payment gateways) and cross functional collaboration for setting up payment aggregation services for PayZippy.
Setup business operations, fraud and risk, customer support teams from scratch for the startup to support Flipkart's payments aggregator business.
Launched the first POS enabled transactions for ECommerce pan India.

Ujjivan financial services limited

AM/Project Manager, Operations

Sep 2007 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Led ERP implementation cutting across various critical functions of the microfinance company.
Led an industry first project for enabling key microfinance operations on android mobiles.
Process design for various functions of the company including micro insurance, operations; effectively managed scale.