Akanksha Valechaa

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams to develop fintech solutions.
  • Expert in fullstack development with modern frameworks.
  • Strong leadership in managing complex projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Fullstack Engineering Manager with strong leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProject ManagementReact

Other Skills

LeadershipGo (Programming Language)Team ManagementAngularJSHTMLCSSMobile ApplicationsAgile MethodologiesOOPSoftware EngineeringTestingSoftware DesignJavaScriptjQueryPython

About

Building engineering solutions as engineering manager at Grab

Experience

13 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 1 mo
Current Experience

Paylocity

Engineering Manager

May 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Grab

3 roles

Engineering Manager I, Fullstack

Jan 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • I led and managed the tech initiatives and products for a lending fullstack engineering team. I contributed to major products like Paylater and Cash loans for Southeast Asian countries. I worked with the team on High-Level Design (HLD), Low-Level Design (LLD), and implementation of the Content View Layer service to enable dynamic content changes in the app from the backend. I also drove the implementation of the onboarding and checkout journey of users for online acceptance of paylater.
ReactGo (Programming Language)Team ManagementEngineering Management

Engineering Manager II - Fullstack

Promoted

Dec 2018May 2025 · 6 yrs 5 mos

  • Driving Merchant lending problem space in lending to design and implement short term cash loan for MEX in south east asian countries.
  • Managed a core team of 12 engineers to build credit decisioning platform to create offers and limits for users to be whitelisted for loans. Worked closely on features such as whitelisting, offer generation, limit management, user onboarding for segments such as driver and merchant.
  • Led repayments problem space for execution of problems such as delinquent users to pay back outstanding bills willingly, provide access to easy, affordable and rewarding credit options, making it super easy for users to pay via auto-deductions, pay partially, link multiple cards, improved communications to support overseas users with travel mode enabled within app.
  • Working closely with engineering leaders such as product team to brainstorm on requirement gathering and feasibility checks, tech leader to plan and prioritise tech initiatives and TPMs to plan the executions.
Project ManagementLeadershipEngineering Management

Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack

Dec 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • End-to-end responsibility for business dashboards for Grab Financial services, developed in React and GoLang. Responsible for all full-stack projects in the team, promoting best practices and collaboration.
ReactGo (Programming Language)

Hackerearth

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Front-end Enginner

May 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Complete ownership of web front-end of “Sprint”, an innovation platform for the developer community at HackerEarth. It also caters to conduct hackathons.
  • Technologies used: Django, Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Redux
  • Developed React app for innovation enterprise platform.
  • Developed HackerEarth’s UI library comprising generic React components and CSS classes.
  • Led the entire frontend development of HackerEarth’s hackathon SaaS platform, which included several components like the participant view, admin dashboard, judging and public voting.
  • Created HackerEarth's UI framework 'Nuskha' comprises for React components and stylesheets.

Hungerbox

Software Developer

Aug 2015May 2016 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • At HungerBox, I took ownership of entire web frontend of the product and internal tools. Technologies involved were AngularJS, HTML, CSS, JS, Jquery and Semantic
  • Developed the entire web product of HungerBox for online food ordering and subscriptions.
  • Developed dashboard for operations, menu and order management for the B2C platform.
  • Developed product for B2B clients for feedback analysis, vendor and menu management.
  • Built internal dashboards for the end to end supply chain data management.

Zopper

2 roles

Software Programmer

Jul 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Noida Area, India

  • Zopper website for price comparison and product discovery. Used python framework tornado to make async API calls to the main backend and built the frontend using standard web technologies.
  • Zopper website for app only hyper local e-commerce model.
  • Unified Sales Dashboard - Internal sales and ops dashboard built on AngularJS for data management and administration.

Intern

Jan 2014Jun 2014 · 5 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Working on project to develop and test User/admin interfaces for B2B project RISE( Retailer Inventory System Enhancement.)
  • Language: Python.
  • Framework: Django, Flask
  • Database: MongoDB.

Microsoft

2 roles

U-crew Representative

Sep 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr

Microsoft student partner

Dec 2012Nov 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Program Overview:
  • The Microsoft Student Partner Program recognizes top young minds from around the world that are passionate about technology. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to develop real-world skills to help you succeed in your future career, to help others learn about the technology of today and tomorrow, and to connect with other like-minded students, all whilst having a ton of fun along the way. The tenure is for 1 academic year and can be renewed by the MSP India Team if the MSP has acceptable performance and continues to meet the eligibility criteria.
  • What is a Microsoft Student Partner?
  • The ‘ideal candidate’ would be a passionate and enthusiast individual who wants to learn about new tools and technologies. You would need to have a whole range of skills including excellent time management, organization and communication skills to ensure that you could host successful campus events. An MSP should be comfortable and confident presenting in front of large audiences of both students and faculty members. General marketing skills come in very handy in order to allow you to articulate your ideas effectively when presenting. MSPs are social, friendly and approachable individuals who like to meet new people. You will require the ability work as a team as well as use your own initiative. In summary, MSPs are innovative and creative students who are extremely passionate about technology and who like to help others.

Education

Hindustan Institute of Management and Computer Studies

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Jan 2011Jan 2014

Simpkins School

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