Aash Dhariya
Email: aash.discover@gmail.com
Mobile: 7838804669
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashdhariya
Blog: https://blog.aashd.me
Github: https://github.com/geeky-sh
Summary
Accomplished Engineering Leader with a 13-year track record of architecting and scaling complex, ground-up platforms. Deep expertise in designing cloud-native, distributed systems that balance immediate product needs with long-term extensibility. For the past six years, I have led engineering organizations of 10–15 staff, cultivating a culture of best practices, reducing technical debt, and delivering operationally excellent solutions that simplify complex business problems.
Leadership Skills
  • Strategy & Planning - Define requirements, scope, and quarterly roadmaps. Provide accurate estimates and align engineering efforts with product goals
  • Technical Delivery - Lead solution design and architecture , draft technical specifications, and manage delivery timelines across cross-functional teams.
  • Team Development - Built and managed high-performing teams of 10–15 engineers. Develop individual growth plans and offer constructive feedback to foster team motivation and trust.
  • Excellence & Quality - Lead engineering best practices and processes. Drive operational improvements to ensure we have a scalable, modular, and long-term system.
Technical Skills
  • Programming Languages: Python, Golang, Elixir, Ruby, Kotlin
  • Storage Technologies: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
  • Frameworks: Django, DjangoREST, Ruby on Rails
  • Infrastructure: Docker, AWS ECS, S3, EC2, Lambda, CDN, SQS, Kinesis, AWS Copilot
  • Others: Github, Gitlab, Jira, Shortcut, Notion
Professional Experience
Engineering Manager - Yubi, Bangalore, March 2024 - Present
  • Led the foundational development of the LoanOS platform from inception. With a team of 15 members, architected a scalable product that processed 3 crore in daily disbursements within one month of launch
  • Optimized operational excellence metrics (MTTD/MTTR), improving team efficiency and deployment frequency by 2X
  • Drove predictable and high-quality delivery by executing detailed quarterly roadmaps, managing sprint plans, and regularly leading design reviews.
Senior Software Engineer - Inspirit, Remote, Dec 2021 - Nov 2023 ( 2 years )
  • Having joined as an early engineer, I built the core architecture of the product and developed pivotal features that improved sales growth.
  • Authored technical specification documents along with UML diagrams, conducted timeline estimations, performed task allocations, and coordinated stakeholder communications throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Mentored team-members, introduced code review framework, deployment strategy and added IaC (Infrastructure as Code) capabilities to backend systems (backend, unleash.io, metabase).
Engineering Manager - Paytm, Remote, July 2020 - Sep 2021 ( 1 year )
  • Led a cross-functional team of 15 to build the Insurance product from scratch (0 -> 1). Designed a fault-tolerant streaming pipeline that captured detailed user activities, enabling data-driven product iterations
  • Planned and led an independent initiative to build the streaming pipeline for capturing detailed user activities which helped in building secondary product features quickly and in a fault-tolerant manner.
Senior Backend Engineer - Realport, Mumbai, July 2019 - July 2020 ( 1 year )
  • Architected, defined the core processes involved in onboarding institutional investors which brought a lot of structure and clarity on how different components work and interact with each other.
  • Built third-party packages to interact with vendors like Docusign, Solaris, IDNow to enable Identity and AML (Anti-money Laundering) checks within the product
Technical Lead - Coverfox, Mumbai, Oct 2015 - July 2019 ( 4 years )
  • Architected and executed a nuanced migration from monolith to microservices, reducing operational processing time by 94% (2 hours to 7 minutes).
  • Defined technical specifications and mentored 10 engineers to ensure high-quality delivery
Senior Software Engineer - TargetingMantra, Gurgaon, June 2014 - Sep 2015 ( 1 year )
  • Automated the integration process of the clients
  • Responsible for designing, building and implementing new features and ensuring consistent uptime of the website.
Product Engineer - AlmaConnect, Gurgaon, May 2012 - May 2014 ( 2 years )
  • Developed all the features that required search and filter capabilities using Elasticsearch
  • Built an asynchronous email notification service that sends aggregated activity emails to thousands of users in a day
  • Optimised the app server response time by 6­-7 s
Education
B.E. in ICT (Information and communication technology), DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, 2012
Interests
Play Tabla, Reading, Running