Summary
Ashish Khapre is a seasoned software engineer based in Fremont, CA, with two decades of experience designing and delivering high-volume, resilient distributed systems for messaging, banking, insurance, and personalization platforms. He has led engineering efforts for industry-leading messaging surfaces like Messenger, Instagram Direct, and WhatsApp, blending expertise in batch, streaming, cloud, messaging, and web technologies to build scalable, secure products across web, mobile, voice, and messaging form factors. His career spans leadership roles at Facebook and Wells Fargo and current engineering work at Cruise, demonstrating a rare mix of enterprise-grade architecture and hands-on implementation. Known for driving customer-focused outcomes, he excels at cross-functional collaboration with product, partners, and operations to deliver award-winning, on-time transformations. A pragmatic technologist, he often pairs modern streaming and messaging patterns with legacy modernization to unlock measurable business value.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College