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Akhil Ojha

Engineering Leadership at Airbnb

Bengaluru

14+ years of work experience

Airbnb
Feb 20242 yrs 7 mosPresent

India

Established and scaled Airbnb’s India engineering presence for the Global Community Support Platform, building a high-performing team supporting globally distributed operations. Architected and delivered a SOX-compliant vendor Identity and Access Management platform from the ground up, enabling secure onboarding and role-based access control for 30,000+ vendors across global regions. Automated access provisioning workflows, reducing vendor access time to under 5 minutes while strengthening auditability, compliance controls, and access governance.
Atlassian
Jul 20194 yrs 8 mosFeb 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Founding member of the ITSM India engineering organization, contributing to the team’s growth to 100+ engineers while safeguarding engineering excellence through structured design reviews, architecture governance, and knowledge-sharing forums. Led the end-to-end post-M&A technical integration of Statuspage ($27M ARR) and Opsgenie ($100M ARR) into the Atlassian core platform, consolidating incident management capabilities into Jira Service Management and successfully sunsetting the standalone Opsgenie product. Architected and delivered a unified incident management platform within Jira Service Management, driving cross-product adoption and platform consolidation. Led 30–40 engineers across 4 cross-functional teams, defining technical roadmap, platform architecture, and execution strategy while ensuring scalability, reliability, and architectural alignment across distributed systems.
Expedia Group
Apr 20181 yr 4 mosJul 2019

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Led a team of engineers to re-architect and scale a high-throughput signal retrieval service feeding Expedia’s core fraud detection platform. Designed and optimized low-latency lookup systems achieving p99 <50ms while processing ~3,000 signals per second at peak traffic to power real-time fraud model evaluation during checkout. Improved reliability and performance of upstream fraud decisioning systems, directly contributing to revenue protection.
Adobe
Sep 20161 yr 8 mosApr 2018

New Delhi Area, India

Implemented high-impact features for Adobe Target, a high-traffic personalization and experimentation platform used by global enterprise clients. Improved system maintainability by driving code reviews, refactoring legacy components, and enforcing clean coding standards. Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated builds, testing, and reliable production deployments.
Adobe
Jan 20169 mosSep 2016

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Adobe
May 20141 yr 9 mosJan 2016

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Infosys
Mar 20131 yr 3 mosMay 2014

Collaborated directly with client stakeholders to gather requirements, create low-level designs (LLDs), and deliver effective solutions.
Infosys
Dec 20112 yrs 4 mosMar 2014

Bangalore

Akhil’s AI Stack

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Education

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

20074 yrs2011

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Headline

Engineering Leadership at Airbnb

About

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams while architecting distributed, high-availability systems across enterprise SaaS and consumer platforms. Proven track record of leading cross-functional organizations (30–40 engineers), contributing to the growth of 100+ engineer teams, and fostering engineering excellence through strong technical standards, design governance, and mentorship. Delivered post-M&A platform consolidation of $100M+ ARR products, built SOX-compliant IAM systems serving 30,000+ global vendors, and engineered low-latency services (p99 <50ms) powering real-time fraud decisioning. Passionate about developing leaders, driving technical rigor, and building scalable, revenue-impacting platforms.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

AutoGen

ChatGPT

Glean

Google ADK

LM Studio

Work experience

Engineer at Airbnb, Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos, India, Established and scaled Airbnb’s India engineering presence for the Global Community Support Platform, building a high-performing team supporting globally distributed operations. Architected and delivered a SOX-compliant vendor Identity and Access Management platform from the ground up, enabling secure onboarding and role-based access control for 30,000+ vendors across global regions. Automated access provisioning workflows, reducing vendor access time to under 5 minutes while strengthening auditability, compliance controls, and access governance.

Principal Engineer at Atlassian, Jul 2019 - Feb 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Founding member of the ITSM India engineering organization, contributing to the team’s growth to 100+ engineers while safeguarding engineering excellence through structured design reviews, architecture governance, and knowledge-sharing forums. Led the end-to-end post-M&A technical integration of Statuspage ($27M ARR) and Opsgenie ($100M ARR) into the Atlassian core platform, consolidating incident management capabilities into Jira Service Management and successfully sunsetting the standalone Opsgenie product. Architected and delivered a unified incident management platform within Jira Service Management, driving cross-product adoption and platform consolidation. Led 30–40 engineers across 4 cross-functional teams, defining technical roadmap, platform architecture, and execution strategy while ensuring scalability, reliability, and architectural alignment across distributed systems.

Senior Developer at Expedia Group, Apr 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Led a team of engineers to re-architect and scale a high-throughput signal retrieval service feeding Expedia’s core fraud detection platform. Designed and optimized low-latency lookup systems achieving p99 <50ms while processing ~3,000 signals per second at peak traffic to power real-time fraud model evaluation during checkout. Improved reliability and performance of upstream fraud decisioning systems, directly contributing to revenue protection.

Senior Member of Technical Staff at Adobe, Sep 2016 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos, New Delhi Area, India, Implemented high-impact features for Adobe Target, a high-traffic personalization and experimentation platform used by global enterprise clients. Improved system maintainability by driving code reviews, refactoring legacy components, and enforcing clean coding standards. Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated builds, testing, and reliable production deployments.

Lead Software Engineer at Adobe, Jan 2016 - Sep 2016 · 9 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Senior Software Engineer at Adobe, May 2014 - Jan 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys, Mar 2013 - May 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos, Collaborated directly with client stakeholders to gather requirements, create low-level designs (LLDs), and deliver effective solutions.

Systems Engineer at Infosys, Dec 2011 - Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University