Summary
Pinak Chakraborty is a hands-on technology leader and CIO at Airtel Payments Bank with over a decade of experience building highly available, low-latency, and fault-tolerant digital banking platforms. He has led engineering and product teams across Asia—from DBS Digibank and PayMaya to Amazon and Bank of America delivery centers—driving cloud-native microservices, personalization, and real-time payments innovations. Known for translating business imperatives into scalable technical strategy, he focuses on frictionless, always-on, and secure customer experiences for mass-market finance. His background includes prototyping cutting-edge payments solutions (tokenization, blockchain-led remittance, and device-originated payments) and contributing to patentable ideas, reflecting a blend of practical delivery and experimentation. Based in Hyderabad, he pairs technical depth in distributed systems with management training from IIM Calcutta and research in NLP/ML, an uncommon mix that informs both product vision and engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Silchar
General Management Programme, General Management, General Management Programme, General Management at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Post Graduate Student Status Program - Computer Science and Engineering, (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning), Post Graduate Student Status Program - Computer Science and Engineering, (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning) at International Institute of Information Technology
Bengali, Hindi, French, English