Ashish Virmani
Engineering Lead For Payroll Product at Gusto
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAshish Virmani is an experienced engineering leader with 13 years building and scaling payments, commerce, and payroll systems, currently leading Gusto’s Core Payroll engineering team in San Francisco. He has a strong track record from product- and revenue-driving roles at Twitter—where he led API, developer experience, and in-timeline commerce initiatives—to foundational platform work at Microsoft and Amazon. Ashish combines hands-on full‑stack technical leadership with people management, hiring and coaching high-performing, distributed teams across multiple locations. He has moved ideas from prototype to production—shipping features that enabled in-timeline purchases and creative ad formats—and continues to hire aggressively for engineering manager and senior full-stack roles. With an MEng in Computer Science from Cornell and early startup founder experience, he blends academic rigor, product intuition, and entrepreneurial grit. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who focuses on real customer problems and measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor Of Technology, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Information TechnologyModel School RohtakMEng, CS, MEng, CS at Cornell University
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Github Skills (10)
uploader8
finagle6
windows-phone6
rest6
scala6
android5
pandora1
chrome1
rdio1
chrome-extension1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
virmani/MealsOnWheels
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
virmani/patient-tracker
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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