Ditesh Shashikant is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 17 years of experience building and scaling real-time, AI/ML-powered platforms and consumer products for hundreds of millions of users. He has led large, geographically distributed engineering organizations—most notably growing Grab’s tech bench and R&D footprint across Southeast Asia and now leading Superbank—delivering high-throughput systems in transport, payments, lending and superapp experiences. Deeply versed in cloud-native architectures (AWS), performance optimization, data science and VOIP, he blends product-oriented engineering with operational rigor to reliably ship mobile and web experiences. He is passionate about developing leaders and healthy teams, and has a track record of launching multiple R&D centers and driving cross-border technology scale-up. Notably, his background includes national standards work and grassroots open-source community leadership, reflecting an uncommon combination of industry, public standards, and community impact.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Fintech Revolution: Transformative Financial Services and Strategies, Fintech Revolution: Transformative Financial Services and Strategies at Wharton Executive Education
Executive Leadership Program, Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School Online
Masters in Computer Science, Computer Science, Masters in Computer Science, Computer Science at Universiti Malaya
Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Multimedia University
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