VP / SVP / CTO / Director — Technology · Platform Engineering, GCC & COE Leadership, Digital Transformation
With over 15 years of experience across fintech, e-commerce, travel, and hospitality, Ashok is a tech leader at the forefront of Agentic AI and intelligent operations — building autonomous, self-healing systems that reduce toil and accelerate delivery at scale. He architects end-to-end AIOps pipelines that harness AI for predictive incident detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Ashok's approach to DevSecOps is deeply proactive — embedding security as an AI-augmented layer across the entire CI/CD lifecycle, from code commit to production. Recognised for blending MLOps, observability, and autonomous decision-making into scalable cloud-native platforms — consistently bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI capabilities and tangible business outcomes. Regularly the senior-most technical voice in board, investor, and C-level conversations.
Director Engineering · Delhi / NCR, India
Industry recognition for leadership in DevOps, AI, automation and developer experience.
Recognised for outstanding DevOps leadership in the Financial Services sector. Regular speaker at India DevOps Show and cybersecurity panels.
Recognised for innovation in Developer Experience through AI and automation — driving platform engineering transformation and intelligent workflows.
Recognised as a top DevOps leader for driving AI-led automation, Agentic DevOps adoption, and self-healing cloud operations at enterprise scale.
Combining deep technical architecture with board-level financial acumen — a rare profile that bridges engineering and business leadership.
Full P&L accountability for annual technology budgets — cloud infrastructure, tooling, vendor contracts and headcount — with consistent cost optimisation at scale.
Reduced operational headcount from 50 to 20 through Agentic AI and automation — improving reliability while dramatically lowering cost-to-serve.
Drove cloud cost reduction through consolidation, right-sizing, reserved capacity planning and shared infrastructure — saving significantly while scaling the customer base.
Deep command of MRR, ARR, LTV, CAC, Churn and unit economics — enabling data-led investment decisions at both engineering and business leadership levels.
Built and scaled Global Capability Centre operations and a Centre of Excellence for cloud platform engineering across multiple geographies and regulated FinTech/Banking products.
Regularly the senior-most technical voice in board, investor and C-level conversations — translating platform strategy, architecture trade-offs and cloud economics into business outcomes.
Stays actively involved in architecture, solution design and technical reviews — deep in Kubernetes/CNCF, API/integration platforms (Kong, Kafka, Redis) and cloud-native engineering.
Pioneered Agentic DevOps and AIOps — deploying AI agents to autonomously handle incident detection, self-healing, alert triage and routine CloudOps tasks.
Track record of building platform teams from the ground up, growing engineers into senior practitioners and reshaping org structure around AI-augmented ways of working.
Owns end-to-end security posture — WAF, RBAC/IAM, DevSecOps, SAST/DAST — driving SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS and GDPR readiness across global multi-tenant platforms.
Hands-on builder and architect of AI-powered platforms — from Agentic workflows to data intelligence systems that changed company fortunes.
Built production-grade Agentic AI apps using LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines and multi-agent frameworks. Transformed legacy monoliths into AI-native platforms.
Landmark data intelligence platform delivering product usage, marketing and account health insights — praised by C-suite, investors and board members. Changed company strategic direction.
AIOps practices with DORA metrics and AI-assisted observability. ML-driven anomaly detection for proactive incident prevention and SLI/SLO-driven reliability reporting.
Led monolith-to-microservices transformation with GenAI augmentation — LLMs in developer workflows, automated code review, intelligent CI/CD and self-healing pipelines.
Built BI platforms integrating AI for predictive analytics, executive dashboards, SaaS metrics (MRR, ARR, LTV, CAC, Churn) and revenue forecasting aligned to P&L goals.
AI into security posture management — automated SOC2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR compliance using intelligent policy-as-code, SAST/DAST and AI-assisted vulnerability remediation.
Translating cloud, data and AI investments into quantifiable outcomes that matter at board level.
Designed and delivered an AI-powered data and insights platform that provided the company's C-suite with unprecedented visibility into product usage patterns, marketing performance, and account health metrics. The insights generated were credited by executive leadership — including board members and investors — with changing the company's strategic direction: directly influencing revenue growth, client retention and go-to-market decisions.
Pioneered zero-downtime build and deployment pipelines across multi-cloud environments — blue-green deployments, canary releases and fully automated rollback. Concurrently architected AI-based infrastructure auto-provisioning and intelligent auto-scaling using ML-driven demand forecasting — enabling infrastructure to self-heal and scale in real time without human intervention.
15+ years of progressive leadership across Engineering, Cloud, DevOps, Data and Executive Technology.
Multi-cloud, multi-tool engineering leader spanning AI, data, DevOps and infrastructure.
Open to VP / SVP / CTO / Director-level conversations around Platform Engineering, GCC/COE Leadership, AI and Cloud strategy.
Phone
+91-9971040466Location
Delhi / NCR, India (Open to Relocation / 30–40% Travel)I partner with organisations looking to harness AI, Cloud and Data to create competitive advantage — whether setting up a GCC/COE, building a platform from scratch, achieving zero-downtime deployments, turning data into strategic insight, or implementing AI-driven infrastructure auto-provisioning and intelligent auto-scaling.
Target Roles: VP · SVP · CTO · Director Technology | FinTech · SaaS · Travel · Hospitality · E-commerce