Amit Kataria
Vice President Engineering @ Airtel Digital
- Role
- VP Engineering - Payments and Financial Services at Airtel Digital
- Location
- Gurugram, HR, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amit Kataria
Engineering leader with 20 years of experience building and scaling large technology platforms across telecom, fintech and AI systems. Previously led engineering organizations of up to 150+ engineers and owned platforms serving 90M+ monthly active Airtel users and 40M+ financial services users across payments, lending and digital onboarding systems. At Airtel, led architecture and delivery across payments, lending, customer acquisition and workforce platforms, combining strong system design with hands-on execution.Built and scaled fintech platforms supporting ₹600 Cr/day lending and launched financial products such as gold loans and fixed deposits for Airtel’s 90M user base. Developed Airtel’s workforce SaaS platform used by 150K users processing 450K operational orders daily, and scaled telecom onboarding infrastructure to 350K customer activations per day. Currently co-founder of a Legal AI platform, building systems for legal knowledge extraction, hybrid retrieval and AI-assisted legal drafting. Known for owning critical platforms, building strong engineering teams and delivering reliable systems at scale.
Experience
VP Engineering - Payments and Financial Services
Jun 2023 — Present
Leading Payments and Financial Services in Airtel.1. Building financial products such as Co-branded Credit Cards and Personal Loans for 350M Airtel Customers2. Restructured core platform so that new lenders can be onboarded in 15 Days3. Leading Payments stack used for online recharges on Airtel Thanks App4. Also leading DevOps and TechOps practices for Airtel Digital vertical
Education
Punjab Engineering College
BE, Computer Science & Engineering
2000 — 2004
GMSSS - Sector 19
12th, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
1998 — 2000
Skills
- Resource Estimation
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Apache Spark
- Phonegap
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Integration
- Enterprise Architecture
- Cloudant
- Apache Kafka
- Worklight
- Node.js
- Pre-Sales
- Maven
- Html5
- Websphere
- Jms
- Couchdb
- Websphere Message Broker
- Nosql
- Restful Architecture
- Redis
- Spring
- Couchbase
- Websphere Portal
- Ibm Infosphere Streams
- Angularjs
- Websphere Process Server
- Solution Architecture
- Eclipse
- Performance Tuning
- Agile Methodologies
- Apache Activemq
- Servlets
- Spring Framework
- Xml
- Apache Camel
- Web Services
- Hibernate
- Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
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