Mr. Vinayak Hegde serves as Advisor at Simple. He served as Chief Technology Officer at Zoomcar. He serves as Volunteer at IETF. He also served as Vice President, Engineering at Helpshift. He also served as Lead Architect / Manager at InMobi. He has worked across different domains such as Embedded Systems, Content Delivery Networks, Ad Technology and CRM software and has more than 16 years of experience in the software industry. Through his career, he has worked in various capacities, spanning from individual contributor roles to senior leadership roles. He also founded his own startup which consulted with various growth-stage startups and helped them scale their tech stacks as well as their teams. He graduated from Mumbai University with a Computer Science degree.