Akash Dongre

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Top 10 Innovators Under 35 India 2017
  • Fortune India '40 Under 40' 2017, 2018
  • Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2017
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Technology and Fintech expert with strong product management capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementMobile TechnologyProduct StrategyOperations ManagementProduct DevelopmentGame DevelopmentMobile Applications

Other Skills

AndroidBlackberryBusiness AnalyticsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCRMEnterprise SoftwareEntrepreneurship DevelopmentFinancial ServicesInternational SalesLeadershipManagementMobile CommerceMobile MarketingMobile Operating System

About

Akash is a product management and product strategy leader with extensive mobile technology experience. Leading and motivating high-performance teams, Akash is known for delivering innovative products and is passionate about understanding customer needs and delivering solutions that address them. Akash is the driving force behind the product management at Indus OS, crafting a vision and rallying cross-functional teams to develop and launch innovative products like regional mobile operating system, Appstore, system applications, and others. Specialties: Product Management, Product Development, Product Design, Growth, Custom Android OS, App Store, App Marketplace, Ad Monetization, Custom ROM, Mobile Devices, Smartphones Sales and Distribution, Mobile Trading, Analytics, Mobile Publishing, Mobile Application, Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, 2D Barcode Solutions and Operator Services. His entrepreneurial aspirations took shape in his early days at IIT, where he went on to become an integral part of the Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Bombay, and ultimately led him to create an enterprise. Major Achievements and Awards: MIT Technology Review and Mint Top 10 Innovators Under 35 India 2017 Fortune India "40 Under 40" 2017, 2018 Business World "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" 2017 4 Patents

Experience

Indus appstore

Co-Founder and CPO

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Indus os

3 roles

Co-Founder

Promoted

Nov 2015Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

  • Indus has revolutionized the mobile industry by introducing the world's first Regional Smartphone Operating System. Indus OS is built on Android and is designed for regional language smartphone users. Indus is bringing to people a simplified smartphone experience in their native tongue.
  • Indus’s vision is to build an end-to-end ecosystem that would bridge the digital divide and get the emerging markets on the information highway, language being the key.
Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentMobile TechnologyMobile Operating SystemRegional Language Support

Co-founder and CPO

Nov 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs

  • Akash, led the Product Management, Strategy and Development for Firstouch, India's first regional mobile phone and operating system
Product ManagementProduct StrategyProduct Development

Co-Founder and COO

Aug 2007Nov 2013 · 6 yrs 3 mos

  • Akash, led operations and product development at MoFirst Solutions.
  • Set up a young , passionate and highly committed team of IIT graduates who have focused on mobile software solutions , since the dawn of mobile technology , MoFirst is focused on enabling operators, financial institutions, and merchants to exploit the mobile channel for mPayment and mBanking services.
  • Our innovative suite of m-commerce products & services empower customers to offer interactive mBanking and mPayment services - that means secure, multi-channel mobile transactions, mobile alerts, two-way banking services, and marketing campaigns via SMS, WAP and downloadable client. We have a cumulative experience of over 60 man years in financial services and technology.
  • We also offer secure transaction platforms for bill payments, money transfer, prepaid phone cards, P2P transaction, billing platform for mobile portals and many more.
Operations ManagementProduct DevelopmentMobile PaymentsmBanking

Octane technologies

Senior Game Developer

Aug 2005Oct 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Octane is a leading developer in the mobile gaming industry and the firm that can best engineer and deploy any mobile application. Headquartered in San Francisco and with a studio in Mumbai, the key to Octane’s success is its belief that successful companies benefit from solutions that transcend national boundaries, conventional practices, and traditional thinking.
Game DevelopmentMobile ApplicationsSoftware Engineering

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B.Tech — Mechanical Engineer

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Nagpur

Jan 1999Jan 2001

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