Ashish Vikram | Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
SpiceJet

Ashish is a software industry veteran, that has created and led several high productivity software development teams and created multiple products and platforms in many different domains. Ashish went to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, where he received a degree in engineering. He subsequently got his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in the United States. Ashish started his career in Silicon Valley in 1989 with a startup, Rational Software that was building Software Engineering tools. He moved to Bangalore in 1993 and set up a development center for Rational Software as Managing Director. This was one of the first product development centers set up in India.  Ashish grew Rational India into a high productivity software lab and also started the sales team for Rational in India. Rational was acquired by IBM in 2003 post which Ashish continued to lead the Rational group within IBM as General Manager. Ashish then started two more software development organizations in India from scratch and grew and nurtured them into highly productive software development labs until eventual acquisition. The first of these was OAT Systems, in the RFID space and then Kalido which was in the agile data warehousing space. Ashish subsequently joined Yahoo, Bangalore as VP Engineering, as the leader for Yahoo's data and Advertising platform teams. Subsequently Ashish joined Flipkart as VP of Engineering, where he led the creation of Flipkart's digital advertising platform. This platform has quickly become India's 3rd largest digital ad revenue platform after Google and Facebook. The time spent at both Yahoo and Flipkart gave Ashish good experience in building and running AI based internet platforms used by millions of customers. Ashish Joined SpiceJet in 2019 as its Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, with the vision of transforming SpiceJet into a technology led Company. SpiceTech has since used AI and data analytics to create several innovative products that are being used by SpiceJet but that can also provide value to other airlines.