Ashish Kankaria

Engineering Manager

India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams at PhonePe and Meta.
Expert in building scalable fintech solutions.
Strong background in product and project management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong engineering management and product development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentArchitectural DesignSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementProduct ManagementEngineering

Other Skills

People ManagementJavaSQLWeb ServicesData StructuresJavaScriptTreasury AccountingGolangAnsible.NetC#Technical DesignInfluencing OthersStakeholder ManagementLeadership Communication

About

Building the core UPI PSP stack at Phonepe

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 8 mos

Current Experience

Phonepe

Engineering Manager

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Leading multiple engineering teams with a total of 23 engineers building Payments solutions for India's scale
1. UPI PSP (Payment service provider)
Supporting a team of 11 engineers building a Payment service provider (PSP) stack to process UPI transactions across various instruments like bank accounts, Rupay credit cards, credit line, UPI Lite, wallets.
Building payments systems that handle a scale of 500M+ transactions per day
Scaling distributed systems to match ever increasing adoption of UPI system
2. Autopay
Supporting a team of 7 engineers building recurring autopay payment solutions on UPI
Delivering multiple new product enhancements to improve user experience & adoption
3. Risk & Operations
Supporting a team of 5 engineers building Risk & operations solutions to streamline operational processing for Business operations
Building reconciliation systems to book keep & account Phonepe's cost & revenue

People ManagementProject ManagementEngineering ManagementProduct Development

Visa

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

OpenVisaNet (OVN)
Building Visa's next generation payment processing system based on open distributed standards. Open will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. Responsible for building a monitoring and logging solution for OpenVisaNet using highly scalable open source components.
Technologies: golang, ansible,
Systems used: Prometheus, fluentd
Authorize.Net
Worked on building payment APIs which allow our merchants to accept payments.
Developed a Virtual Point of Sale system for enabling small and medium business merchants to accept EMV transactions at their store. Responsible for building SDKs and Developer center.
Technologies: .Net, C#, JavaScript, angularJS

Copenhagen business school

NLP Intern

Jun 2014 – Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

Understand how humans translate
Translation process research deals with learning how humans translate from one language to another by recording their gaze samples and keystrokes
My role involved analysis of the gaze and keystroke data obtained through eye trackers and key loggers and find out correlations in data like Translator patterns and expertize, Complexities of language pair involved, etc.

Symantec

Associate software Engineer

Jul 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune

Veritas Operations Manager
Software engineer developing Symantec's Storage Management solutions viz. Veritas Operations Manager(VOM), Command Central Storage(CCS). Worked on redesigning the Veritas Operations Manager application using Java and extJS.