Summary
Ashish Sharda is an experienced engineering leader and founder based in Austin with over a decade of hands-on experience building products, teams, and technical strategy across CRM, AI, robotics, and mobile domains. He has held senior engineering and architecture roles at companies including LendingTree, Apple, Salesforce, and Yahoo, and now leads engineering efforts at ANRA Technologies while founding Brane Browser and mentoring startups through Techstars and ACP. Ashish blends deep technical chops—authoring a published npm security library and tools like a Playwright Recorder extension—with a track record of hiring, leadership development, and delivery in fast-moving environments. He’s equally at home shipping full-stack developer tools and designing AI-driven consumer experiences, often focusing on practical solutions that remove developer friction. A serial builder and mentor, he leverages both startup founder instincts and enterprise-scale engineering discipline to move ideas into production.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur
Master of Business Administration - MBA Accounting and Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA Accounting and Finance at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Engineering Management, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Engineering Management at California State University - East Bay
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Project Management, Project Management at Stanford University