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
I have 13 years of experience in building consumer-facing products from scratch & scaling them. My forte lies in understanding business problems in detail and architecting solutions that closely align with product goals. I believe in designing simple but long-term solutions to problems.
In addition, I have been in leadership positions for ~6 years and have built and managed a team of 10-15 engineers, guided and helped them hone their skills. Lastly, I have led the team to build scalable, modular and extensible products within stipulated timelines.
Leadership Skills
  • Planning - Define requirements, scope, and iterations; provide estimates; align stakeholders.
  • Execution - Design solutions, draft technical specifications and UML diagrams, allocate tasks, manage delivery timelines.
  • Culture - Develop growth plans, conduct regular one-on-ones, offer constructive feedback to foster team motivation, trust, and confidence.
  • Excellence - Guide, empower, and influence the team to embrace engineering best practices and processes.
Technical Skills
  • Programming Languages: Golang, Python, 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
  • Architected the core LoanOS platform, leading a 12-member team to drive an average of ₹3 crore in daily loan disbursements within a month of launch.
  • Improved MTTD, MTTR and team efficiency by implementing better engineering processes across teams.
  • 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 )
  • Set up the Insurance product from scratch, built the core architecture, defined user & process flow, add detailed technical documentation, led a 15-member team to deliver a successful product.
  • 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 )
  • Migrated from monolith to microservice-based architecture in an iterative manner, improving the efficiency of the operations team from 2 hours to 7 minutes.
  • Collaborated with the product team to define requirements, wrote technical specifications, managed delivery timelines, and led a 7-member team.
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