Summary
Pinak Chakraborty is a seasoned technology and product leader with a decade of experience driving digital payments and banktech platforms across India and Southeast Asia. As CIO at Airtel Payments Bank since 2021, he shapes the engineering strategy to deliver frictionless, always-available, secure financial services at scale, while aligning technology with business goals. His track record spans leadership roles at PayMaya, DBS Digibank, Bank of America's digital payments teams, Amazon, Pegasystems, and Steria, where he built and shipped scalable, cloud-native, microservices-driven systems and P2P/digital wallet innovations. He has led ambitious prototypes in blockchain remittance and smart contracts, and has steered global delivery across India, the UK, and the US. He holds a BE in Computer Science from NIT Silchar, NLP/ML studies at IIIT, and an IIM Calcutta General Management Programme, underscoring a blend of deep technical and strategic business acumen. Based in Hyderabad, he blends hands-on engineering with executive leadership to turn complex regulatory and security requirements into reliable, customer-centric financial technology solutions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Silchar
General Management Programme, General Management, General Management Programme, General Management at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Post Graduate Student Status Program - Computer Science and Engineering, (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning), Post Graduate Student Status Program - Computer Science and Engineering, (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning) at International Institute of Information Technology
Bengali, Hindi, French, English