Ashwini Kumar

Senior Engineering Manager building calm, high-leverage teams for travel at scale.

I currently lead Omio’s Asia expansion and global Ferries engineering from Bengaluru. Before that I built products and teams at PayU Finance, MPL, Hotstar, InCred, 1mg, Oracle, and Trimble.

Current roleSenior Engineering Manager, Omio

FocusLeadership, engineering for scale, AI-native teams

LocationBengaluru

Open toMentoring, conversations, thoughtful ideas

I’m not actively looking right now, but I’m always happy to connect.

Current Scope

  • Leading engineering for Omio’s Asia expansion.
  • Owning the global Ferries business across provider integrations and booking flows.
  • Building AI-native workflows around specs, review automation, and guardrails that are useful in practice.

Recognition

  • Google Developer Expert in Firebase.
  • Mentor at Scaler.
  • CKA and CKAD certified.

Core Stack

  • Java, Kotlin, Spring, Android
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, GitHub Actions
  • AI agents, MCP workflows, n8n, LangFuse

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager, Omio

Bengaluru · Jan 2025 - Present

  • Leading Omio’s push into Asia with multi-modal travel products including Japan Rail Pass and Travel Planner.
  • Owning the Ferries engineering surface end to end: provider integrations, search, booking, and ticketing.
  • Built the India team from scratch, including hiring loops, career growth, and on-call habits.
  • Introducing AI-native ways of working through specs, automated reviews, n8n pipelines, and LangFuse tracing.

Director of Engineering, PayU Finance (LazyPay & PaySense)

Bengaluru · Apr 2021 - Dec 2024

  • Led a 30+ person engineering org across backend, Android, iOS, and web, shipping BillPay, Xpress Loans, VideoKYC, 2FA, and a FinTech marketplace.
  • Reworked backend architecture, cut infra cost by 60%, and introduced Reactor, Jetpack Compose, SwiftUI, and micro-frontends.
  • Modernized delivery with zero-touch deployments, experimentation, controlled rollouts, and automated CI/CD.

Senior Engineering Manager, MPL

Bengaluru · Apr 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Led a 20-engineer team focused on product expansion toward 100M users.
  • Rebuilt the mobile app architecture and developed in-house libraries designed for scale.
  • Delivered ForgeRock-based SSO for 85M+ customers along with network and performance improvements.

AVP Engineering, InCred Finance

Bengaluru · Jul 2019 - Mar 2021

  • Rewrote the Android app in Kotlin with MVVM, Jetpack, and Dagger 2 while growing test coverage from 0 to 80%.
  • Automated CI/CD with Fastlane and GitHub Actions, and designed backend-for-frontend APIs for clean client separation.
  • Improved app ratings from 2.5 to 4.2+ stars, and was recognized with Tech Star of the Month and a top appraisal in 2020-21.

Senior Software Engineer, Hotstar

Bengaluru · Oct 2017 - Jul 2019

  • Rebuilt the Android app from scratch for 300M+ users using MVVM, RxJava 2, and Dagger 2.
  • Architected a networking SDK capable of switching API backends without an app release.
  • Shipped Picture-in-Picture, Dark Mode, content caching, App Bundle, and live cricket social features.
  • Recognized as Best Performer (Future Leader) for 2018.

Senior Software Engineer, Tata 1mg

Gurgaon · May 2016 - Sep 2017

  • Redesigned the app using Clean Architecture, MVP, and RxJava.
  • Revamped Pill Reminder and Labs modules while reducing memory and network footprint by 30%.

Applications Engineer, Oracle

Hyderabad · May 2015 - Mar 2016

  • Built data transfer tooling for Oracle Fusion Applications on the HCM Data Loader team.

Software Engineer, Trimble Navigation

Chennai · Jun 2013 - Apr 2015

  • Developed Android apps for laser surveying and GNSS receiver communication.

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science, NIT Tiruchirappalli

Class of 2013

Certifications & Recognition