About — Vijay Bambhaniya
Staff Engineer & Engineering Lead | Bangalore, India 12+ years building distributed systems, leading teams, and shipping products that scale. Currently at Acko Insurance as a Staff Engineer, growing from individual lead → Engineering Manager → technical direction setter across multiple product lines. Acko Insurance — Lead → EM → Staff Engineer July 2022 – Present Built Acko’s travel insurance platform from scratch — domestic & international coverage, real-time flight tracking, and automated claims processing Led an AI processing pipeline for the travel pass platform — from email classification to information extraction — and achieved CASA certification Built B2B partner onboarding tooling that cut onboarding time by ~70% Shipped Onboarding 2.0 — a cross-domain customer onboarding platform with cross-sell couponing — deadline-driven, went live the day before a major sales event Introduced Domain Driven Design organisation-wide; reduced dev time ~15% and improved code quality ~25% Integrated GitHub Copilot into team workflows, boosting engineer productivity ~20% Grew from leading individual projects → engineering managing a team → Staff Engineer owning technical direction across multiple product lines Unacademy Group (Mastree) — Engineering Lead Dec 2020 – Jun 2022 ...