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VP Engineering, Acko • 1x Founder • AI & ML • ex-CheQ, Goibibo

About

I'm Vaibhav - A passionate builder at heart who love's shipping world-class products. 🚀 Product engineering leader, entrepreneur, & full-stack specialist with deep experience in hands-on engineering, large-scale architecture, strategic planning, and scaling high-performance consumer systems. Have demonstrated success as a single-threaded leader for business outcomes - by shipping products using first principles and built strong engineering teams from scratch. Have end-to-end knowledge of product life-cycle, front-end, mobile, and middle-tier server-level languages, a wide spectrum of databases, machine learning, production-grade data pipelines with added experience in cloud and high scale complex applications. My most memorable role was as the Founder & CEO at Askmonk, where I was involved in conceptualising and heading all tech & product, fund-raising and executive initiates for the company before exiting in 2017. Apart from founding Askmonk, I have worked at leadership positions for startups like CheQ (5M+ Users), Twin (Global health-tech Unicorn), TradeIndia (20M+ SMEs) & Goibibo (100M+ Users) on their flagship products where my focus was on consumer empathy & performance both. I'm also a fitness enthusiast/coach - Lost ~35 kgs and since then helping people transform into healthier selves and lose weight. I'm am also an ultra runner and have ran over 15 marathons. Tech: Python, NodeJs, SQL & NoSql Db, Spark, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, BitBucket Pipelines, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS, GCP, Serverless, Airflow, Data pipelines, ETL, GenAI & Machine Learning. Sectors: Fin-tech, E-commerce, Health-tech, Travel-tech & Consumer Internet.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

gemini

lovable

openclaw

Qwen

Work experience

VP of Engineering at Acko, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Acko is a new age InsurTech unicorn, on a mission to become the one-stop ‘peace of mind’ destination for 200M+ Indian households. With ~$500M in funding from top-tier investors like General Atlantic, Accel, Elevation & Lightspeed, operating at 3000Cr+ revenue and catering ~100M users, we’re reimagining insurance through technology, customer-first thinking, and bold innovation.

Founding Team & Head, Engineering at CheQ, Jul 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Founding member crafting exceptional tech by spearheading team of DoE, EM, TL, backend, mobile, data, architects, ML & devOps engineers from the front. Backed by Venture Highway (now General Catalyst), 3One4 Capital, Ram Shriram, Naveen Kukreja, Kalyan Krishnamurthy & other stellar angels, CheQ is a fintech startup helping millions of Indians understand, manage & leverage credit better & in that process earn meaningful rewards operating at ~$40M ARR. Roles & Responsibilities: ✦ Managing large-scale hybrid distributed system with unwavering commitment to strong consistency principles processing over 40M transactions and $7B+ top-line. ✦ Built CheQ Wisor: India's 1st Credit Card Assistant powered via GenAI - Trained SLMs for Intent classification, NER and Text2SQL to build deterministic flows to power insights. ✦ Spearheading core engineering: Orchestrating the development of critical products like CCBP, Personal Loans, Loan against mutual funds, Utility Payments etc. ✦ Anchoring data-sciences charter: Pioneered the creation of the CC discovery module "Stark" by leveraging cutting-edge OCR, document processing, and ML enabling efficient identification of products & bills processing over ~20M events a day. ✦ Leading security charter: Championed a comprehensive cyber-security strategy with a "defence in depth" approach and Implemented CIA principles to fortify organisational security. ✦ Lead certifications like PCI/DSS, ISO, CICRA, SISA & CASA, showcasing industry-leading standards. ✦ Hire, structure, grown and mentor a strong team of over 60 engineers.

Head of Engineering at Twin, 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Global health-tech unicorn raised $300M Series E from ICONIQ, Sequoia, Temasek, Corner Ventures, Sofina, Perceptive Advisors, LTS Investments & Helena, Twin is helping people reverse chronic diseases with our precision health platform powered by AI & IoT. Headquartered in California and founded by solid serial entrepreneurs (sold last company Jasper to Cisco for ~$1.4B). Roles & Responsibilities: ✦ Part of the engineering leadership team enabling the cutting edge Whole Body Digital Twin technology to the world! ✦ Built the APAC team from scratch, hands-on setup the underlaying tech & now responsible for scaling the business working closely with product and growth leads. ✦ Setup best practices for the product engineering team: OKR's, micro-service architecture, git pipelines, code reviews, CL/CI, blue green, observability setup and canary deployment strategies. ✦ Lead end-to-end k8s deployment pipeline at large scale on AWS to test and train ML models powering Twin's core tech on both ETL & probabilistic rails to cater to customers globally. ✦ Lead data-science team to run streaming & batch jobs at massive scales consuming millions of records to give real-time suggestions on food and activity. ✦ Integrated IOT capabilities with Garmin watches, CGM patches and the Twin app to consume 3000+ data points to power the Digital Twin experience.

Vice President at Tradeindia.com-Infocom Network Ltd, 2019 - 2020 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, TradeIndia is one of the largest B2B classified platforms with over 20 Million registered SME’s next to IndiaMart. TI is a profitable entity founded by Bikky Khosla (brother of Vinod Khosla) which has been market leader for over 30 yrs now. Roles and Responsibilities: + Headed the product engineering for eB2B wing of TradeIndia - building B2B wholesale commerce for the retailer ecosystem and empowering distributors through productivity apps. + Built full-stack payments platform for B2B retailers and distributors for instant money transfer. + Built classification pipeline using machine learning for RFQ's at scale over 1 Million a day. + Built hyper-local buying experience for retailers on a large scale hybrid cloud infrastructure. + Built logistics and seller-selection micro services - plug and play solution for any B2B needs.

AVP of Engineering at Wooplr, 2017 - 2019 · 2 y, Bangalore, Wooplr is a social commerce platform with over 10 Million users and millions of monthly orders (India’s first social commerce play). Wooplr is a global company, HQ in Bangalore with operations in Hangzhou, China, and 6 other India cities, with over 150+ employees driving a ~$50Mn Annualised GMV run rate. Shutdown in 2019. Had to layoff 100+ employees. Roles and Responsibilities: + Part of leadership team help built social commerce that scaled to over 10 Million users. + Headed product engineering team of 50 folks ensuring deliverables on time. + Optimised, streamlined operations and increased efficiency by over 28%. + Multilingual implementation increasing social commerce by over 30%. + Built Recommendation Engine using AWS Personalise (HRNN machine learning algorithm). + Built Facebook ads performance monitor using the Upper confidence bound algorithm. + Built social commerce architecture, backend and platform implementation ground up holistically in NodeJs, MongoDb, Kafka, Redis on large scale hybrid google cloud platform. + Built BI/Analytics pipeline using MetaBase and Panoply processing millions of events per day. + Setup IVR, NDR, EDD, support ticketing flow and efficient practices for scaling operations. + Implemented SCRUM and agile development to reduce features release cycle.

Founder & CEO at Askmonk, Jul 2015 - Aug 2017 · 2 y 1 mo, Founder

Product Engineer at Goibibo, Aug 2013 - Aug 2015 · 2 y, Gurgaon

Public links

github: https://github.com/vaibhavmagon

medium: https://medium.com/@vaibhavmagon