Ashish Kulkarni
Distinguished Engineer at SimplePay
Thane, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAshish Kulkarni is a Distinguished Engineer with 19 years of experience leading development and R&D across fintech and risk-technology startups and scale-ups, currently driving engineering at SimplePay. He co-founded AdvaRisk and previously led development at CARE Kalypto, combining hands-on systems engineering with product-focused leadership. Comfortable in backend and build systems, he contributes to notable open-source work such as wkhtmltopdf—improving its build process, Windows support, and release/versioning mechanics. Based in Thane, India, he blends deep telecom and electronics foundations with practical software craftsmanship, often tackling low-level build and compilation challenges that quietly keep products shipping.
19 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Electronics, Diploma, Electronics at St. Xavier's Polytechnic CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Telecommunications Engineering at K. J. Somaiya Institute Of Engineering and Information Technology
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
build-automation10
qt9
git9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf
Dec 2013 - Jun 2022
Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 15 reviews, 489 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ashish primarily focused on improving the wkhtmltopdf project's build process and incorporating new features. Their contributions included removing dependencies, adding version information, and fixing build issues. The user also worked on integrating a hash for the latest commit as part of the version and adding a build script for Windows. Additionally, the user made code adjustments to address compilation errors and crashes related to specific functionalities.
html-to-pdfqtwebkitwebkit
teamsimplepay/hstore_accessor
May 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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