About

Arif Amirani is a highly experienced and accomplished Chief Technology Officer with over 16 years of experience leading end-to-end development of highly scalable products. He has a thorough understanding of product development and has demonstrated the ability to plan and deliver complex solutions through all stages of the product development life cycle, using formal development and project management methodologies with clean architecture and clean code. Arif has a proven track record of building highly motivated and independent teams, managing remote teams, and working with global teams across geographies. He has established multiple team topologies such as technology teams, matrix teams, product teams, and self-managed product teams. He has a unique blend of experience working with established highly scaled companies and bootstrapped startups delivering end-to-end products. Arif is an innovative, inspiring, decisive, and boundary-less leader with big picture thinking at the same time detail-oriented. He is a good influencer, consensus builder, customer-obsessed, delivery-focused, and role modeling learn fast & adapt. He is a hands-on technologist and a certified Solutions Architect (AWS). Arif has a strong track record in delivering software products and services from concept to market across domains. He has built teams from scratch and has won several awards, including CRM Startup of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C01), Grand Prize Winner - Sequoia Capital Hackathon, and one of the top 5 projects at TechCrunch India Hackathon. Currently, Arif is the Chief Technology Officer at CashFlo, a B2B SaaS fintech startup that he helped build from scratch. He is responsible for leading the technology team, product ideation/stakeholder management, team building, and scaling the product. Before joining CashFlo, Arif co-founded India Critical Resources Network (ICRN), a NPO think-tank that performs research and advocacy on technology for social reach. During Covid wave 2, ICRN was pivotal in helping the citizens find beds, plasma, oxygen providers, etc across the country. Arif rapidly built a PWA based platform from scratch and scaled it to 20 million+ users in 4 weeks (peak of Wave 2) across the country. Arif has also co-founded Envolto, where he helps startups ideate and refine their vision. He invests in early-stage startups, provides guidance and advice to CEO/CTO cadre, and offers corporate training for niche