Venture with Grace Adil Ajmal - CTO @Fandom (Ex-LendingHome CTO, Amazon VP) Media/Gaming
Adil Ajmal is the Chief Technology Officer at Fandom, the world’s largest fan platform in entertainment and gaming. With over two decades of leadership across high-growth startups and tech giants, he has led engineering, product, and data teams through multiple successful exits. Before Fandom, he served as CTO of LendingHome (now Kiavi), where he scaled its fintech infrastructure to support billions in mortgage volume. Earlier, Ajmal was Vice President of Engineering at Amazon following its acquisition of TenMarks, where he helped expand Amazon's edtech initiatives. He also held senior engineering leadership roles at Intuit (post-Homestead acquisition) and was VP of Engineering at Posterous, acquired by Twitter. Throughout his career, Ajmal has built and scaled engineering organizations from early-stage to post-acquisition, bringing a product- and people-first philosophy to every company he’s led.Topics:
- Building high-performing engineering teams from startup to scale
- How fan engagement is evolving in the gaming and media ecosystems
- Lessons on leadership and product strategy from Amazon, Intuit, and Fandom
#MediaTech #GamingIndustry #EngineeringLeadership #ProductStrategy #StartupToScale