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title: "Vaibhav Magon - VP of Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Vaibhav Magon, VP Engineering, Acko • 1x Founder • AI & ML • ex-CheQ, Goibibo based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and gemini. Explore public work links including github and medium."
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# Vaibhav Magon on Tal

## Headline

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

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