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title: "Ashish Kumar - Software Development Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ashish Kumar, Engineering Manager @ Amazon | Ex-Director of Engineering @ PagarBook | Co-Founder @ Reach based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and cursor."
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# Ashish Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Manager @ Amazon \| Ex\-Director of Engineering @ PagarBook \| Co\-Founder @ Reach

## About

Tech Leader and entrepreneur with over 12 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\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

cursor

gemini

notion

## Work experience

Software Development Manager at Amazon, Mar 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Director of Engineering at PagarBook, Jul 2020 \- Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, \- Head of Enginering and Founding member\. Led the Tech and Product teams of around 30 engineers \- Grew the product to 1M active users, 20k paid businesses and 8M USD ARR

Principal Engineer at ixigo, Sep 2016 \- Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 10 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

Co\-Founder & CTO at Reach App \(acquired by ixigo\), Aug 2014 \- Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Gurugram, \- 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

Intern at Zomato, Jun 2014 \- Jul 2014 · 2 mos, Gurgaon, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

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