Akshay Hegade
Director - Engineering, Special Projects Group at Visa
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkshay Hegade is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams and delivering production-grade software across cybersecurity and payments. Currently Director of Engineering in Visa’s Special Projects Group, he blends deep full-stack technical acumen with people-first leadership cultivated at Visa, McAfee, and Symantec. He focuses on GenAI and secure, scalable systems, driving innovation while simplifying processes and enabling teams to ship reliably. Akshay pairs technical depth (M.Tech. in Computer Science) with recent executive management training from IIM Bangalore, giving him both strategic and operational fluency. Colleagues describe him as empathetic and pragmatic—equally comfortable mentoring engineers as he is shaping product and architecture decisions. He often surfaces hidden bottlenecks in delivery pipelines and turns them into opportunities for team growth and measurable velocity gains.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
karnataka Education Board, DharwadExecutive General Management Program, Executive General Management Program at Indian Institute of Management BangaloreMaster of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science at S D M College of Engg. & Technology, DHARWAD
Kannada, Hindi, Sanskrit, English
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Github Skills (3)
jersey-client6
cxf6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Akshayhegade/contactmanager
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Akshayhegade/SortAndShuffle
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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