Summary
Gazal Garg is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 16 years of experience building scalable, reliable platforms, currently driving Open Banking infrastructure at Upswing in Bengaluru. She scaled Zilingo’s engineering organization from its founding to over 70 engineers and led consumer-facing systems that supported 7 geographies, multi-currency commerce and peaks of 50K orders/day. Gazal combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with product-minded ownership—having led teams across search, checkout, payments, OMS/WMS, and a BNPL fintech initiative. Her engineering approach emphasizes operational resilience and measurable business impact, demonstrated by leading cloud infrastructure and growth-stage platform scaling. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, she brings a blend of startup founding-engineer grit and senior leadership discipline. Outside the obvious metrics, she has repeatedly transformed small cross-functional teams into dependable engines for new revenue-driving products.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate Science, Intermediate Science at St. Paul's School
Bachelor of Technology - BTech (Dual Degree with MTech) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech (Dual Degree with MTech) Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur