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Ayush Varshney

Verified Expert in Project Management

Project Manager

Location

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Toptal Member Since

December 14, 2018

Ayush's success as an Agile project manager can be viewed from the large number of projects that he delivered successfully during his two startups, where he handled planning, hiring, mentoring, QA, design, development, and release management. His experience as a developer, project manager, scrum master, and team leader gives him a unique holistic perspective of the product development lifecycle. Ayush is also listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list 2018.

Project Highlights

Trading Exchange

Led a very lean team in creating a trading exchange that contains multiple assets and multiple currencies in a record time of four months.

Content Discovery Platform App Like Snapchat Stories

Android app was selected by Google for the very first Launchpad Accelerator Program.

Boeing Autonomous Vehicle Project

Led the entire algorithm team for the project. The project ended up creating a great prototype for Boeing to base it's large scale implementation on.

Expertise

Agile Project Management CTO Finance Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)Product Management Product Strategy Startups Web

Work Experience

Chief Technology Officer

2018 - 2023

Testbook

Led the entire technology vertical for one of the fastest-growing edtech startups in India, with more than 10 mn users with large-scale use of ML, AI, and GenAI for content recommendations, user segmentation, lead generation, and content creation.
Handled infrastructure scalability, back-end architecture, developer hiring, project plan, and Agile delivery.
Built cutting-edge live class technology, in-house video streaming, scalable AI-based assessment platform, and machine learning-driven recommendations.
Used major infra components and languages, such as Kubernetes, Go, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, Airflow, OpenAI, Vertex AI, Keras, TensorFlow, Python, Node.js, Angular, React, Kotlin, Android, iOS, Swift, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Java.

CTO | Co-founder

2016 - 2018

Nash Ventures

Selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Finance Segment, Nash Ventures created products in blockchain, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.
Developed 10+ projects and delivered them to clients as the agile project manager.
Handled all staffing and team management for the projects.
Managed project delivery planning and development schedules and supervised developers.

CTO | Co-founder

2012 - 2016

Bluegape Lifestyle Pvt Ltd

Started while in college and created the entire 1st version of the tech alone.
Led the development of an eCommerce website, news app, and blogging platform as the project manager and tech lead.
Led a team of 20+ highly experienced developers and designers across 10+ products on different platforms.
Created web, Android, and iOS apps, led all three teams, and handled project management for the entire set.
Contributed to development and project management for the website, Android, and iOS app.

Project History

Trading Exchange

Led a very lean team in creating a trading exchange that contains multiple assets and multiple currencies in a record time of four months.

The exchange had all features for placing buy/sell/market orders and margin trading. It contained a web-based and Android-based portal with very high-security considerations, including financial compliance.

Virtual Reality Jewellery Store

Created the world's first live virtual reality jewelry store using HTC Vive for one of the biggest brands in the country.

The project involved people experiencing and shopping for jewelry in the virtual reality 3D environment. It uses the best of VR and eCommerce to make it possible to sell a large inventory without having that in-house.

Content Discovery Platform App Like Snapchat Stories

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/murmur-app

Android app was selected by Google for the very first Launchpad Accelerator Program.

The app curates content from popular blogs and news sites and serves them in bursts of 10 pieces. The content was used to blend photos, videos, GIFs, news, blogs, etc., and was showcased as a headline in a visual layout with links to the source.

Boeing Autonomous Vehicle Project

Led the entire algorithm team for the project. The project ended up creating a great prototype for Boeing to base it's large scale implementation on.

Designed an autonomous vehicle capable of traversing successfully on rough terrain in an unknown environment, equipped with suitable sensors that can detect the oncoming surface irregularities, able to perform all kinds of mechanical motions, including a frog-like-jump, able to execute the jump over an obstacle of height 1ft or over a crater of diameter 1ft without any functionality issues.

Required devices like an inertial measurement unit (IMU) for control feedback, Kinect for 3D mapping, Arduino boards for navigation, and an onboard processor on a Pandaboard.

Education

2010 - 2014

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, India

Certifications

APRIL 2018 - PRESENT

Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018

Forbes

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