Ashish Gupta — VP of Engineering

With over two decades of leadership in technology, I specialize in transforming software organizations and delivering distributed and scalable cloud services. My passion lies at the intersection of emerging technology—including AI, Cloud, and Data Analytics—and strategic business growth. Currently, as Vice President at Barco, I am responsible for the software product portfolio and innovation strategy in India. Previously at Oracle, I led the creation of the Identity Cloud services, the security backbone for OCI, demonstrating my ability to deliver critical infrastructure at a global scale. I thrive on leading global organizations through complex transitions, fostering a culture of innovation, and building world-class teams that deliver exceptional results. My academic background includes postgraduate degree in computer science from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, an executive education in ‘Leading strategic growth and change’ from Columbia Business School, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India. I'm always looking to grow my personal and professional network. Feel free to connect via LinkedIn. Competencies: Business and Domain - Product Development, Product Strategy, Innovation Management, P&L, Partnerships, Global Cross Functional Stakeholder Engagement. Global Multisite Thought Leadership. Technology - Cloud (Oracle OCI, Azure, Google) SaaS, PaaS, SRE, Identity and Access Management, IDaaS, Network Security, Artificial Intelligence Platforms, Data Products, IoT, Salesforce.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on Identity and Access Management.

Location: Delhi, India

Experience: 28 yrs

Skills

Product Development
Cloud Computing
Identity And Access Management

Career Highlights

Over two decades of technology leadership experience.
Expert in cloud services and AI-driven solutions.
Proven track record in leading global software transformations.

Work Experience

Barco

Vice President, Head of Software [Cloud, Data, AI, IoT; Digital and IT Strategy} (6 yrs 3 mos)

Oracle

Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) India Head of Engineering, Identity Cloud (2 yrs 11 mos)

Director, Product Development, Identity Cloud Services. (9 yrs 2 mos)

iPolicy Networks (www.ipolicynetworks.com)

Senior Manager Engineering. (7 yrs 8 mos)

Hughes Software Systems

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs)

Education

PostGraduation at University of Cambridge

Executive Education 2017 at Columbia Business School

PGDM at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

B.Tech at University of Lucknow

at Colvin Taluqdars College

Ashish Gupta

VP of Engineering

Delhi, India28 yrs experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over two decades of technology leadership experience.
Expert in cloud services and AI-driven solutions.
Proven track record in leading global software transformations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on Identity and Access Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentCloud ComputingIdentity And Access Management

Other Skills

CloudDataAIIoTDigital StrategyIdentity Cloud ServicesMicroservices ArchitectureCloud InfrastructureAgile AdoptionPerformance ManagementCustomer SuccessAI StrategyLarge Language Models (LLM)Generative AI ToolsCloud Applications

About

Experience

28 yrs

Total Experience

7 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Barco

Vice President, Head of Software [Cloud, Data, AI, IoT; Digital and IT Strategy}

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

Head of Software and IT for Barco’s Digital Products (Software Platform, Business Apps, Software Products, IT) in India; Lead the Software and Digital Strategy for Barco Products.

CloudDataAIIoTDigital StrategyProduct Development+1

Oracle

2 roles

Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) India Head of Engineering, Identity Cloud

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Head of Development, India, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Identity Cloud Services
Responsible for product development in India for Oracle’s Identity as a Service (IDaaS) Solution: Identity Cloud Services (IDCS). IDCS is developed ground up based on micro services architecture. It is available as part of Oracle's PaaS offering. IDCS is also the Identity and Security fabric of Oracle Cloud Platform.
Responsible for providing Innovative and technology leadership to a distributed organization of software development engineers, Performance Engineers and Architects with strong focus on Organization growth and transformation in the cloud services world.

Identity Cloud ServicesMicroservices ArchitectureCloud InfrastructureIdentity and Access ManagementCloud Computing

Director, Product Development, Identity Cloud Services.

Feb 2008 – Apr 2017 · 9 yrs 2 mos

Successfully lead the development of Identity Cloud Service in India which went live on oracle public cloud in a very short span last year.
Spearheaded the setting up of a new development team in India for building IdaaS cloud service offering. As part of this initiative lead organization change and transformation initiatives to uptake new challenges of development and delivery using new micro services architecture, on a new technology stack and in a new Agile delivery paradigm. Also lead the Organization wide Agile Adoption and transformation in our group.
Setup a new performance group for performance driven development ('Continuous Performance') which is must for any cloud service.
Earlier lead development of on-premise product 'Oracle Identity Manager'. Also successfully setup the initial Oracle Identity Manager Cloud delivery team for Oracle Public Cloud initiatives in 2010.
Started numerous initiatives for organization building like knowledge empowerment, strategic hiring, agile adoption, customer success, performance management.
Incepted a new group for customer success which involved strong collaboration across various groups in EMEA and NA as well as interaction with large Enterprises in EMEA region.

Agile AdoptionPerformance ManagementCustomer SuccessProduct DevelopmentCloud Computing