Asad Palekar
Senior Director - Commercialization And GTM Lead For VGS - CEMEA
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAsad Palekar is a seasoned software leader with 11+ years of experience building and commercializing scalable digital products across fintech, healthcare, pharma and industrial domains. Currently Senior Director leading Commercialization and GTM for Visa’s VGS CEMEA business, he combines hands‑on full‑stack fluency (mobile, NodeJS APIs, .NET and modern JavaScript MVVM frameworks) with strategic solution architecture for large government and enterprise programs. He has a proven track record bridging pre‑sales, delivery readiness and talent building—authoring implementation frameworks and scaling regional solution architecture teams. Comfortable switching between prototype‑first innovation (mobile/web POCs leveraging AI and device APIs) and production governance, he’s equally at home sketching UX flows and validating architecture narratives for executive stakeholders. Based in Dubai, he’s known for translating ambiguous, high‑stakes government requirements into pragmatic commercial solutions while maintaining a steady upward career trajectory.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduation Diploma in Advanced Computing, Computer Science, Post Graduation Diploma in Advanced Computing, Computer Science at CDAC - ACTS PuneBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Instrumentation Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Instrumentation Technology/Technician at Vishwakarma Institute Of TechnologyAbu Dhabi Indian School
Hindi
Stackoverflow
301reputation
13kreached
22answers
2questions
Github Skills (34)
ios10
react-native10
android10
react10
cross-platform9
redux-middleware9
mobile9
persist9
redux-persist8
redux8
mobile-development8
storage7
app-framework7
phonegap-plugin7
redux-store7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
assyme/EstimoteLocation
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
assyme/HeroSpin
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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