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 2024Present · 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

Meta

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2020Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 6 mos · On-site

  • Leading a team of 8+ engineers, building solutions for financial planning of the company and enabling Finance managers to efficiently manage billions of $s of company's budget & spend.
  • Spend Forecast:
  • Led the development of a platform to manage company's budget and forecasting needs of Reality labs and Infrastructure teams.
People ManagementProduct DevelopmentEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Software Engineer

Feb 2018Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · On-site

  • Accounting & Treasury Products
  • Tech lead for Accounting & Treasury team building products to serve finance users.
  • Daily Liquidity
  • Led end to end development for the platform to reconcile the entire company's financial transactions with banks allowing treasury users to focus on strategic work
Treasury AccountingEngineeringSoftware DevelopmentEngineering Management

Visa

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2015Jan 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 2014Jul 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 2011Jun 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.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Bachelor of Engineering — Computers

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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