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Ashutosh Sharma

#zh | x - MMT<​CRED<​Happay<​Workzie | BITSian

Greater Bengaluru Area

12+ years of work experience

MakeMyTrip
Jan 20251 yrDec 2025

Bengaluru

Happay
Apr 202410 mosJan 2025

Happay
Nov 20221 yr 6 mosApr 2024

Bengaluru

Part of the org leadership - leading a team of 5 direct reports and ~40 indirect reports across backend engineering, infrastructure and QA. Managing engineering teams for 4 product verticals. Also lead the security charter and risk and compliance charter for the payments org. Building people and processes that scale.
Happay
Mar 20193 yrs 9 mosNov 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the Backend Engineering for the Enterprise Expense Management and Corporate Travel product verticals; and Devops, Security and Compliance functions across five business verticals. Introduced AI powered features to the product suite.
Workzie
Apr 20161 yr 2 mosMay 2017

Bengaluru Area, India

Led a team of stellar engineers on disrupting the archaic expense management systems for small and medium enterprises. Rolled out the first release across Web, Android, and iOS in less than three months. Workzie simplifies expense management for companies spanning across media, manufacturing, technology and consulting industries. Selected in the accelerator program of Axilor Ventures, and recognized as a Top 20 FinTech startup by Startup Bootcamp Singapore. Acquired by Happay (www.happay.in) in May 2017. More details here: https://bit.ly/2Dw0iJY Made a lot of mistakes as a first-time entrepreneur, learnt a lot more.
Stayzilla
Jun 20151 yr 3 mosAug 2016

Bengaluru Area, India

Everything JS. Products owned: Stayzilla Marketing Manager, Third party homestay discovery engine Products contributed to: Stayzilla Website (backend APIs for booking, inventory and notifications), Extranet (property management portal for hosts), Single Sign-On service, Stayzilla channel manager Key projects: Backend Services: Part of the first five backend engineers; Involved in moving the backend from a monolithic PHP backend to microservices in Node.js Involved in booking, inventory and search services. Push notification backend engine: Wrote the backend service for in-app notifications in Node.js. Leveraged push notifications to measure app uninstalls, app engagement and derive insights on the effectiveness of marketing initiatives. SZ Marketing Manager: Product owner for an in-house product to manage the marketing initiatives through in-app push notifications. Conceptualised and wrote the marketing tool ground up which processes 100K+ push notifications daily. Also developed a personalization engine for user segment targeted guest/host marketing. The tool then evolved into an end-to-end marketing engine for push notifications, in-app popups and event based customised marketing pages. Third party discovery engine: Worked with the marketing team and developed a homestay discovery engine which integrated with Google, Tripadvisor, Tripoto and Trivago. Resulted in a 4X increase in daily bookings in three weeks. I was the primary POC from product and tech and took ownership for the third party integration functional group.
Crenovation
Mar 20114 yrs 4 mosJun 2015

Virtual Software Consultancy

Started a virtual software consulting firm with classmates while in college. Took up web development and design projects from international clients. Projects ranged from static websites to content management systems to setting up e-commerce websites. As the Technology Lead, I was responsible for all technical operations of the nine member firm.

Ashutosh’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
claude code
claude code
elevenlabs
elevenlabs
hermes agent
hermes agent
langgraph
langgraph
langsmith
langsmith

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

B.E (Hons.), M.Sc (Hons.)

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

VIjay Ratna Junior College

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Headline

#zh | x - MMT<​CRED<​Happay<​Workzie | BITSian

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

elevenlabs

hermes agent

langgraph

langsmith

Work experience

VP - Engineering at MakeMyTrip, Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr, Bengaluru

Vice President of Engineering at Happay, Apr 2024 - Jan 2025 · 10 mos

Director of Engineering at Happay, Nov 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Part of the org leadership - leading a team of 5 direct reports and ~40 indirect reports across backend engineering, infrastructure and QA. Managing engineering teams for 4 product verticals. Also lead the security charter and risk and compliance charter for the payments org. Building people and processes that scale.

Engineering Manager/Tech Lead at Happay, Mar 2019 - Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading the Backend Engineering for the Enterprise Expense Management and Corporate Travel product verticals; and Devops, Security and Compliance functions across five business verticals. Introduced AI powered features to the product suite.

Co-Founder (Acquired by Happay) at Workzie, Apr 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Led a team of stellar engineers on disrupting the archaic expense management systems for small and medium enterprises. Rolled out the first release across Web, Android, and iOS in less than three months. Workzie simplifies expense management for companies spanning across media, manufacturing, technology and consulting industries. Selected in the accelerator program of Axilor Ventures, and recognized as a Top 20 FinTech startup by Startup Bootcamp Singapore. Acquired by Happay (www.happay.in) in May 2017. More details here: https://bit.ly/2Dw0iJY Made a lot of mistakes as a first-time entrepreneur, learnt a lot more.

Software Development Engineer at Stayzilla, Jun 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Everything JS. Products owned: Stayzilla Marketing Manager, Third party homestay discovery engine Products contributed to: Stayzilla Website (backend APIs for booking, inventory and notifications), Extranet (property management portal for hosts), Single Sign-On service, Stayzilla channel manager Key projects: Backend Services: Part of the first five backend engineers; Involved in moving the backend from a monolithic PHP backend to microservices in Node.js Involved in booking, inventory and search services. Push notification backend engine: Wrote the backend service for in-app notifications in Node.js. Leveraged push notifications to measure app uninstalls, app engagement and derive insights on the effectiveness of marketing initiatives. SZ Marketing Manager: Product owner for an in-house product to manage the marketing initiatives through in-app push notifications. Conceptualised and wrote the marketing tool ground up which processes 100K+ push notifications daily. Also developed a personalization engine for user segment targeted guest/host marketing. The tool then evolved into an end-to-end marketing engine for push notifications, in-app popups and event based customised marketing pages. Third party discovery engine: Worked with the marketing team and developed a homestay discovery engine which integrated with Google, Tripadvisor, Tripoto and Trivago. Resulted in a 4X increase in daily bookings in three weeks. I was the primary POC from product and tech and took ownership for the third party integration functional group.

Lead, Technology at Crenovation, Mar 2011 - Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 4 mos, Virtual Software Consultancy, Started a virtual software consulting firm with classmates while in college. Took up web development and design projects from international clients. Projects ranged from static websites to content management systems to setting up e-commerce websites. As the Technology Lead, I was responsible for all technical operations of the nine member firm.

Education

B.E (Hons.), M.Sc (Hons.), Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

VIjay Ratna Junior College