Aashna Jain
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About

The systems I've built. The story so far.

I grew up curious about how invisible things work: money, markets, software, the quiet infrastructure behind everyday life.

An engineering degree, an MBA, and ten years across fintech and media platforms in India, Europe and the Gulf. I have spent that decade shipping the systems most people only read about.

Unpacked With Aashna is the thing I kept looking for and never found: an insider explaining how the machinery actually works, without the jargon and without the sales pitch.

An open passport with three market stamps: India, Europe, The Gulf
  • India
  • Europe
  • The Gulf

Three markets. One passport.

Experience

  1. 2015 to 2017

    Software Developer

    Publicis Sapient

    Java developer on State Street's hedge-fund platform. Where I learned how financial software actually gets built.

  2. 2017 to 2019

    Product Consultant

    Publicis Sapient, for State Street, Boston

    Onboarding and adoption on State Street's institutional investor platform - 47% YoY growth, two consecutive relationship awards.

  3. 2019 to 2021

    MBA

    IMT Ghaziabad

    Product internship at Tata Consumer Products; a pre-placement offer.

  4. 2021 to 2023

    Product Manager

    JioCinema (Viacom18 Media), OTT

    Part of the team behind JioCinema's first subscription paywall - 0→1 on an ads-only platform - and the payment rails that powered it.

    50M+
  5. 2023 to 2025

    Product Manager

    Wise, Tallinn, Estonia

    Owned global KYC verification for a listed fintech serving 20M+ customers. £5M+ a year in shipped improvements.

    £5M+
    ↳ lived in Estonia, the most digital country on Earth
  6. 2025 to 2026

    Senior Product Manager

    Paytm

    Built the UAE acquiring platform from scratch - licensing, risk, partnerships, a $3B TPV ecosystem.

  7. 2026 to now

    Founder and Host

    Unpacked With Aashna

    Explaining the systems I spent a career building. The most fun I've ever had at work.

Education & extras

Education & extras.

B.Tech, Computer Science

Bharati Vidyapeeth, GGSIPU Delhi

MBA

IMT Ghaziabad

Published AI researcher

Neural-network cancer cell detection · cited by 15+ peer-reviewed papers (Elsevier, Springer, IEEE).

Why Unpacked.

There is a wide gap between how these systems are reported and how they actually work. The reporting is fine; the architecture is where the interesting decisions live.

Understanding architecture is power. If you can see the shape of a system, you can see where it will bend, where it will break, and where it will pay you.

· Aashna Jain

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