Arnav Garg
Product Manager - Payments & Merchant Acquisition at IDFC FIRST Bank
India
Summary
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Top SchoolArnav Garg is a product manager with 8 years of experience who blends hands-on backend engineering with strategic product delivery, currently owning POS merchant onboarding and payments at IDFC FIRST Bank. He has a strong technical foundation from roles at Gaana, Times Internet and NEC, where he built and optimized APIs, worked on payments flows, and contributed to the open-source CKAN data management project. Arnav pairs data-driven decision making—building Tableau program dashboards and reconciling data integrity—with operational rigor to reduce turnaround time through automation and compliance-aligned workflows. He has led small engineering teams and cross-functional initiatives to improve ROI on merchant acquisition campaigns while balancing risk and governance. A university ranker in Computer Science who holds an MBA from IIM Visakhapatnam, he brings both product strategy and implementation chops. Notably, his past work includes dramatic API optimizations (6x faster) and dependency upgrades/documentation contributions to a well-known open-source DMS.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Indian Institute of Management VisakhapatnamBachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science, 86.4% (University Ranker), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science, 86.4% (University Ranker) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
English, French, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
postgresql10
sqlalchemy10
python10
validators9
catalog9
api9
documentation8
data-set7
data-model7
user-data7
ckan7
open-data7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 10 PRs, 52 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Arnav primarily contributed to the CKAN project by fixing grammatical and typo errors in documentation and code comments. They also upgraded dependencies like SQLAlchemy and implemented validator functions, demonstrating an understanding of the backend logic and system configuration. Furthermore, the user updated installation documentation and test files, exhibiting skills in maintaining and improving the overall project structure.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
iamarnavgarg/ckanarnav
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers datahub.io, catalog.data.gov and europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset among many other sites.
Contributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
portalsdatadata-catalogdbpediametadata
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