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Aankesh Rajshekar

Engineering @ zeta| Data & Backend Expert | Leading Scalable B2B Fintech Solutions | Passionate About AI & Data |Ex GitHub, Ex Intel , Ex Klub

Bengaluru

13+ years of work experience

Zeta
Jan 20268 mosPresent

Leading the engineering team responsible for Zeta’s core accounting and distributed batch processing platforms that power real-time transaction processing and end-of-day financial operations for credit cards and other banking products. Driving the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of highly available, large-scale distributed systems with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, performance, and financial correctness. Spearheaded the organization’s AI-first engineering transformation by contributing to Agent Harness, advancing an agentic-first SDLC through reusable AI skills and intelligent workflows, and enabling engineers to leverage AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, quality, and delivery velocity
Zeta
Oct 20241 yr 4 mosJan 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Managing the core platform team which is responsible for processing all the financial transactions at all ledger levels. This platform is the foundation for credit card transaction aggregations
Klub
Apr 20247 mosOct 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As the Senior Engineering Manager at Klub, I lead the team responsible for developing and maintaining our B2B lending product, including the Loan Origination System (LOS), Loan Management System (LMS), and the underwriting module. I oversee the Data and AI verticals, ensuring robust data infrastructure and spearheading our AI initiatives. My role involves actively participating in solution design, providing strategic product inputs, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products. I have introduced new initiatives to enhance engineering productivity and successfully integrated tools such as Hasura and Ory to improve our architectural framework. Additionally, I have driven cost reduction efforts by optimizing infrastructure and implementing architectural enhancements at the platform level, significantly contributing to the efficiency and effectiveness of our engineering operations.
Klub
Oct 20221 yr 6 mosMar 2024

India

I started managing the Repayments, Risk, and Data Engineering teams. I was overseeing capacity planning and delivery, actively participate in design discussions and architecture reviews, drive product scaling to meet increasing demands, and introduce state-of-the-art tech stacks and the latest technological solutions.
GitHub
Sep 20211 yr 2 mosOct 2022

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Worked as part of the Data and Insights engineering team in GItHub. Predominantly involved in developing and delivering engineeering solutions with the help of GitHub's data. Work includes creating new data models for the GitHub products which caters the requirements like usage analysis, funnel analysis , revenue projections. Created and exposed views as a service which can be queried using the open ended queries. Was part of building the analtyics on the activities of a given repo or org. Worked on mutiple data engineeing solutions on both the product and the security space.
Intel Corporation
Aug 20138 yrs 1 moAug 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Multiple expereinces from working as a software engineer in the Intel manufacturing team developing applications for intel factories to working on building AI apps on the next gen intel platfoms mainly to qualify the new client platforms to all the AI techs thats are available.
Intel Corporation
Dec 20127 mosJun 2013

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Education

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Master of Science, Software Engineering

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

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Headline

Engineering @ zeta| Data & Backend Expert | Leading Scalable B2B Fintech Solutions | Passionate About AI & Data |Ex GitHub, Ex Intel , Ex Klub

About

Engineering leader with experience building large-scale fintech platforms, distributed systems, and AI-driven engineering organizations. My experience spans core banking, B2B lending platforms including LOS, LMS, and BRE, real-time transaction processing, core accounting, and large-scale batch processing systems. I enjoy solving complex engineering problems, driving platform scalability, reliability, and operational excellence, while enabling teams to deliver business impact. More recently, I have been focused on AI-first engineering—driving agentic software development, building AI-powered developer tooling, and embedding AI across the SDLC to improve engineering productivity and delivery velocity. Prior to Zeta, I worked with GitHub’s Data Engineering team and as an Application Developer across multiple engineering teams at Intel. Passionate about building high-performing teams, growing engineering leaders, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous innovation.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Zeta, Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos, Leading the engineering team responsible for Zeta’s core accounting and distributed batch processing platforms that power real-time transaction processing and end-of-day financial operations for credit cards and other banking products. Driving the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of highly available, large-scale distributed systems with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, performance, and financial correctness. Spearheaded the organization’s AI-first engineering transformation by contributing to Agent Harness, advancing an agentic-first SDLC through reusable AI skills and intelligent workflows, and enabling engineers to leverage AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, quality, and delivery velocity

Engineering Manager at Zeta, Oct 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Managing the core platform team which is responsible for processing all the financial transactions at all ledger levels. This platform is the foundation for credit card transaction aggregations

Senior Engineering Manager at Klub, Apr 2024 - Oct 2024 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As the Senior Engineering Manager at Klub, I lead the team responsible for developing and maintaining our B2B lending product, including the Loan Origination System (LOS), Loan Management System (LMS), and the underwriting module. I oversee the Data and AI verticals, ensuring robust data infrastructure and spearheading our AI initiatives. My role involves actively participating in solution design, providing strategic product inputs, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products. I have introduced new initiatives to enhance engineering productivity and successfully integrated tools such as Hasura and Ory to improve our architectural framework. Additionally, I have driven cost reduction efforts by optimizing infrastructure and implementing architectural enhancements at the platform level, significantly contributing to the efficiency and effectiveness of our engineering operations.

Engineering Manager at Klub, Oct 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos, India, I started managing the Repayments, Risk, and Data Engineering teams. I was overseeing capacity planning and delivery, actively participate in design discussions and architecture reviews, drive product scaling to meet increasing demands, and introduce state-of-the-art tech stacks and the latest technological solutions.

Software Engineer III at GitHub, Sep 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Worked as part of the Data and Insights engineering team in GItHub. Predominantly involved in developing and delivering engineeering solutions with the help of GitHub's data. Work includes creating new data models for the GitHub products which caters the requirements like usage analysis, funnel analysis , revenue projections. Created and exposed views as a service which can be queried using the open ended queries. Was part of building the analtyics on the activities of a given repo or org. Worked on mutiple data engineeing solutions on both the product and the security space.

Software Engineer at Intel Corporation, Aug 2013 - Aug 2021 · 8 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Multiple expereinces from working as a software engineer in the Intel manufacturing team developing applications for intel factories to working on building AI apps on the next gen intel platfoms mainly to qualify the new client platforms to all the AI techs thats are available.

Software engineer -intern at Intel Corporation, Dec 2012 - Jun 2013 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Master of Science, Software Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology