Ashish Baweja

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15 years of experience in product management and technology.
  • Joint patent holder for innovative media access technology.
  • Led high-performance product development teams across various technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology executive with expertise in product management and software development across diverse industries.

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AndroidAgile MethodologiesLinuxSoftware Project ManagementProduct ManagementiOSPre-salesClearCaseUnixMobile ApplicationsWeb ServicesPerlAgile Project ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

About

If you are passionate about technology and want to build world class products in the right way, we need you at PhonePe. Looking for passionate technology guys with great problem solving skills. Which programming language you have worked on doesn't matter, as long as you know it well and want to work in a fast growing startup. About Ashish: • 15 years of experience as Product Manager and Technology executive, building innovative software products, which create customer delight. • Joint Patent holder at USPTO for “Providing Efficient Reference and Access to Media Regardless of Origin” which enables Still and Video Camera APIs in Flash platform on mobile. • Proven skills in building high performance product development teams in various technologies and languages including mobile development on Android and iOS, Internet technologies etc. • Entrepreneurial spirit and past entrepreneurial experience as founder of multiple web properties including one of top music streaming service in India. • MBA from IIM Lucknow and B.E. (Comp. Sc.) from NSIT, Delhi.

Experience

28 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Phonepe

Head of Engineering - Merchant Solutions

Jul 2018Present · 7 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zopper.com

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Dec 2015Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Senior VP Engineering

Apr 2015Dec 2015 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Leading Technology and Products at Zopper.

Oorja mobile services pvt ltd

Technical and Product Consultant

Jul 2014Apr 2015 · 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Oorja has product line focused on text based mobile advertising and Gratification platform currently serving over 120 million customers every day. USSD Mobile advertising solution serves upwardly of 7 Billion impressions on a single live network in a month. The solution creates micro-segments over a large data set (order Terabytes of telecom usage data) for effective targeting.
  • I have been responsible for Technology and Product Deliverables with primary focus on Engineering Team & Product Management, Architecture, New Product Conception, Product Definition and Roadmap.
  • Accomplishments:
  • 1. Significant performance improvement in system serving more than 250 million requests in single deployment per day leading to 1/4th cpu usage and less than half memory usage compared to earlier deployment coupled with timeouts (no ad inserted within 1 sec and hence message forwarded without insertion) between 0-1% compared to double digit timeouts earlier
  • 2. Reduction in operational involvement of developers (other than feature development) from about 1.5 man day to less than 2 man hours a day on Oorja Wallet (a gratification platform) by mix of improving the system, appropriate automation and proactive reporting in the system.
  • 3. Lead multiple product definition, roadmap and development including Push notification system for Airtel which will enable Airtel to push network notification on smartphones through various Airtel and sister company apps at the rate of more than 10 million notifications a day.
  • 4. Involved in defining product features and customer acquisition mechanisms for “Magic Recharge” app which has reached nearly half million downloads in short time.

Macmillan publishers india ltd.

Vice President - Digital Product Development

Feb 2012Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon

  • Leading Digital product definition and development. SCP is a key personalised digital learning platform being used in Macmillan worldwide. It delivers a range of educational materials via desktop, iPad and Android devices. Primarily the materials are: page faithful eBooks, online tests & grade books, multimedia assets etc. Product will be available to more than 1 Million student in India from upcoming academic year. More than 100K student and teachers in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and Ireland etc. are currently using it.
  • Implemented Agile development methodologies across geographies including in outsourced team, leading to higher efficiency and increased visibility and compliance to timelines.
  • Developing and deploying various internal and external systems for Macmillan India such as Online MDP, Intranet, Digital Asset Management system, Online store, Internal IT assets and ticket management systems etc. I relied on using open source platforms as base for all of these systems.
  • Partnering with Third party digital education solution providers and ensuring integration and custom development.
  • Involved in business transformation and change management program to improve overall business efficiency and outcome that included changes in Sales, Finance, IT, Editorial and Marketing processes etc.

Adobe systems

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Feb 2009Aug 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Ownership for development of Adobe AIR on Mobile platforms. Led team, which brought first version Adobe AIR on Android to market. Later I owned Adobe AIR on iOS and contributed to Flash Platform development (Adobe AIR and Flash Player) on Android.
  • Took up challenge and successfully delivered demo for AIR on Android for time critical MWC 2011 Launch, in less than 6 weeks after AIR was blocked on iOS.
  • Transitioned India team to Agile Scrum development methodologies within the framework of Adobe’s product development process, which further lead to migration of Global AIR team to agile development.
  • Lead AIR on Linux earlier and was responsible for first release of AIR on Linux.
  • Played critical role in defining feature set for Adobe AIR on mobile platforms.
  • Filed Joint Patent at USPTO “Providing Efficient Reference and Access to Media Regardless of Origin” which enables Still and Video Camera APIs in Flash platform.

Program Manager

Jun 2008Feb 2009 · 8 mos

Studyplaces inc.

Senior Engineering Manager and Technical Architect

Jun 2007Jun 2008 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Involved in all stages of product development including
  • Identifying business problems and architecting solutions by leveraging power of cross functional teams,
  • Defining Product spec and Architecture and Delivering product,
  • Responsible for defining web and product analytics needs, analyzing consumer behavior on products and using analysis for user driven product development.
  • Prime responsibility of defining product spec and defining technical architecture for products.

Aricent

Senior Tech Leader

Jan 2006Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Hughes software systems

Senior Technical Leader

Jun 2000Jun 2007 · 7 yrs

Mehfil.com

Cofounder

Jun 1997Feb 2002 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • Mehfil.com was a popular Indian music-streaming portal, which was featured in HT City Front page and several print and online magazines. It was appreciated by likes of Gulzar, Asha Bhonsle , Remo Fernandes, Shiamak Dawar, and Hans Raj Hans etc. Mehfil.com was premium content provider for Pacific Internet. Mehfil was among most popular Indian music sites during 1998-2001, with around 7000 unique visitors per day.

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

PGDBM-WMP

Jan 2006Jan 2009

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science

Jan 1996Jan 2000

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