Summary
Akash Gupta is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience designing and shipping scalable payment and commerce systems at Amazon, now based in Seattle. He has owned platforms spanning Instant Bank Discount, No Cost EMI, Cashback, Coupons and the Cart Building & Consolidation platform, and led global launches like Multi Quantity Discounts across US, EU, JP and IN. Akash pairs product-facing delivery work with cost-to-serve optimizations, building WW recommendation and messaging APIs that reduce delivery and operational spend. He also led critical payments initiatives in India—Card on File Tokenization and PAPG compliance—bringing security, compliance and business continuity together. Known for mentoring teams on re-architecture and scaling, he combines deep domain expertise in payments with a knack for finding leakage and efficiency opportunities that aren’t obvious from surface metrics.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate Physics Chemistry Maths Computer Science, Intermediate Physics Chemistry Maths Computer Science at DAV Public School, Bistupur, Jamshedpur
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
Hindi, English