Summary
Ashish Shekhar is a global technology executive and infrastructure specialist with over a decade of experience modernizing large financial institutions, currently serving as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Technology Platforms at Danske Bank in Copenhagen. He has led industry-leading cloud and mainframe transformations—delivering migrations five times faster than benchmarks while cutting manual effort and costs dramatically—and runs infrastructure with independently benchmarked efficiency gains. Previously at ANZ he built cloud-native data platforms, led a $100M single customer view and a $50M analytics platform, and executed large-scale application rationalization and migrations. Ashish combines deep hands-on experience across networks, compute, storage, virtualization, containers and mainframes with strategic program delivery and SRE scaling. He blends engineering pragmatism with executive-level strategy, regulatory engagement and cost-driven optimization. An MIT Digital Business Transformation alum with a background in computer engineering, he’s known for turning complex legacy estates into agile, automated platforms at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MIT Digital Business Transformation Program, MIT Digital Business Transformation Program at MIT Sloan Executive Education
B.Tech., Computer Engineering, B.Tech., Computer Engineering at Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences