Ashwini Kumar

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.

Leadership & Strategy

🧭 Engineering Leadership & Strategy

I lead engineering the way I’d want to be led — clear mandate, high ownership, and a sharp focus on outcomes over output. I translate company-level goals into technical roadmaps and set the architectural direction for systems serving millions of travelers.

👥 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 at Scale

Spec-driven development, a strong review culture, deep observability, and rollback-first delivery — so the team ships confidently and recovers gracefully.

🤖 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.
📝 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 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

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
🎓 Mentor at Scaler
🏛️ Alumnus of NIT Tiruchirappalli — with leadership roles at Disney+ Hotstar, MPL, InCred, 1mg, and Oracle.