Ashish Kumar

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams to scale products to millions of users.
Successfully exited startup to a major company.
Expert in building large-scale engineering systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong technical leadership and engineering management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementSoftware DevelopmentApi DevelopmentSoftware Design

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)MicroservicesDistributed SystemsJavaNode.jsDevOpsTeam BuildingDocker ProductsContainerizationData StructuresAlgorithmsTypeScriptDatabasesGitGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)

About

Tech Leader and entrepreneur with over 11 years of experience in scaling engineering systems and building teams, driving businesses from inception to millions of users. Exited my startup Reach to Ixigo and also built a successful HR SaaS company PagarBook from the ground up. Currently working on large scale systems at Amazon.

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

Software Development Manager

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Leading a team of 13 engineers in the Digital Acceleration org

Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)MicroservicesDistributed Systems

Pagarbook

Director of Engineering

Jul 2020 – Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Founding member. Led the Tech and Product teams of 30 engineers
Grew the product to 1M active users, 20k paid businesses and 8M USD ARR

Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementJavaNode.jsDevOps

Ixigo

Principal Engineer

Sep 2016 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

Led the ixigo Trains team of 10 engineers. Grew the userbase from 5M to 50M
Developed crowdsourced train running status, train ticket booking, dynamic home page. Worked across different teams like Flights, Cabs, SDK

JavaMicroservicesAPI DevelopmentSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentEngineering Management

Reach app (acquired by ixigo)

Co-Founder, CTO

Aug 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, India

Reach was a social network for content sharing. Built and led a team of 20 engineers
Founded the startup in my final year of college, scaled to 100k users and raised $500k from Rebright Partners
Got acquired by ixigo to build entertainment products for travelers

Technical LeadershipJavaSoftware DevelopmentTeam Building