Rakesh Gupta

Rakesh Gupta is an accomplished Senior Engineering Manager at Grab since April 2018, specializing in building ecosystems for lending products and managing the complete merchant journey, including data, transactional pricing, and settlement. Rakesh previously led engineering teams in merchant settlement and reconciliation at Grab Financial Group and developed key backend features such as a pricing engine. Prior roles include Principal Engineer at Tablehero, where Rakesh architected a distributed backend for restaurant data aggregation, and Software Development Engineer II at Ola, focusing on low-latency systems for real-time information. Rakesh also contributed to travel search developments at Yahoo and worked at various other tech companies, starting with a research internship at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology. Educational qualifications include an executive program from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a B.Tech in Bioinformatics from the Vellore Institute of Technology.