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Ashwini Kumar

Hi 👋, I'm Ashwini Kumar

Engineering Leader · Scaling Travel Tech Across Asia · Building AI-Native Teams

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🚀 What I'm Building Now at Omio

  • 🌏 Asia Expansion — Leading Omio's expansion across Asia, building the multi-modal travel experience spanning Japan and South East Asia — bringing trains, bus, air, and ferries into a single seamless journey, backed by an engineering team I'm growing in India.
  • ⛴️ Ferries — Leading engineering for Omio's worldwide Ferries business end-to-end — from provider integrations to the booking flows travelers depend on across the globe.

🧭 Engineering Leadership & Strategy

I lead engineering the way I'd want to be led — clear mandate, high ownership, sharp focus on outcomes over output. As a Senior Engineering Manager at Omio, I turn ambiguous business goals into shipped, scalable systems and grow the people who build them.

  • 📈 Strategy & Scale — I translate company-level goals into technical roadmaps, set the architectural direction for systems serving millions of travelers, and make the build-vs-buy, now-vs-later calls that keep delivery fast without mortgaging the future.
  • 👥 People & Engineering Management — I grew an engineering team in India from the ground up, hiring, mentoring, and creating the career frameworks, feedback loops, and on-call practices that help engineers do their best work.
  • ⚙️ Engineering Excellence — I raise the floor and the ceiling: spec-driven development, strong review culture, observability, and rollback-first delivery so the team ships confidently and recovers gracefully.
  • 🌐 Cross-functional Delivery — Aligning product, design, and business stakeholders across time zones and verticals to deliver coherent, on-time outcomes.

🤖 Building an AI-Native Engineering Team

I'm working to make my team AI-native — not just by adding tools, but by rethinking how we build so AI compounds developer leverage at every stage of the SDLC. The goal: faster product development, higher quality, less toil.

  • ⚡ Developer Productivity — Embedding AI copilots and agents into daily workflows so engineers spend time on judgment, not boilerplate.
  • 🔁 AI-Powered Code Reviews — Automated first-pass reviews that catch bugs, security issues, and style drift before a human reviewer steps in — so reviewers focus on design, not nitpicks.
  • 📝 Spec-Driven Development — A standardized spec.md as the single source of truth — goals, non-goals, acceptance criteria, observability, and rollback — driving both implementation and AI-assisted testing.
  • 🛠️ Workflow Automation — Orchestrating n8n pipelines and agentic workflows to automate ops, reporting, and glue work across the engineering toolchain.
  • 🚢 One-Touch Deployments — AI-assisted release pipelines that make shipping to production a single, safe, observable action.
  • 📊 Observability for AI — Tracing and evaluating LLM-powered features and dev tooling with LangFuse, so AI in the loop stays measurable and trustworthy.

Philosophy: AI doesn't replace engineering judgment — it amplifies it. My job is to build the guardrails, culture, and tooling that let a small team ship like a large one.


👨‍💻 About Me

With 10+ years building customer-facing applications, I specialize in architecting highly scalable systems across FinTech, Gaming, Entertainment, Healthcare, and eCommerce — a breadth that shapes a holistic approach to technical leadership. Before Omio, I led a high-performing team at PayU Finance.

  • 🏅 Google Developer Expert in Firebase — real-time, cloud-based solutions in consumer apps at scale.
  • 🎓 Mentor at Scaler — guiding the next generation of engineers.
  • 🏛️ Alumnus of NIT Tiruchirappalli — with leadership roles at Disney+ Hotstar, Mobile Premier League, InCred, 1mg, and Oracle.
  • 🎲 Off the clock: board games like Monopoly and Life, and reading up on emerging tech.

💬 Always open to connecting with like-minded builders. Let's build the future together!


🛠️ Tech & Tools

Java Spring Kotlin Android Firebase

Kubernetes Docker Helm GitHub Actions

Codex MCP n8n LangFuse


🌐 Apps Built for Scale

Omio · LazyPay · Disney+ Hotstar · MPL · Tata 1mg · InCred · PaySense


💫 Featured Arena


📓 Latest Musings

Articles publish first on my own blog ✨ (also on Medium).

→ Explore the full collection of blogs 🏃‍♂️


🎓 Certifications

CKA: Certified Kubernetes AdministratorThe Linux Foundation, Apr 2024

System Administration · Logging & Troubleshooting · Security Policies · Services · Scheduling · SRE

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application DeveloperThe Linux Foundation, Feb 2024

Container Orchestration · Kubernetes Architecture · App Deployment · Cloud Native · Docker · Helm


🤝 Connect with Me

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