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Darshan Bildikar

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Senior Director of Engineering at Expedia Group
📍 Greater Seattle Area, United States

Darshan is a Senior Director of Engineering at Expedia, with a background from Stripe, Amazon, and SQUIRE. He has extensive experience leading large global teams, driving AI-first transformations, and scaling products into multi-billion dollar businesses. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Bangalore University.

Outside of his executive roles, Darshan is a family man who is passionate about raising awareness for Williams syndrome, a rare genetic condition his son has. He has a creative side, having developed his own mobile word puzzle game, and is curious about diverse entrepreneurial cultures like barbering.

He built his own iOS game from scratch simply because he was annoyed with the number of ads in other games.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Senior Director of Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
Greater Seattle Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Darshan shows up

Persuasive & Assertive
Hard To Convince
Friendly Yet Blunt

They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting proof as well as information. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Priorities

Topics Darshan cares about

AI Transformation
He led a strategic AI-first transformation at SQUIRE, with 40% of the product roadmap refocused on AI capabilities for business automation and customer interaction.
Scaling Businesses
At Amazon, he was pivotal in growing the Sponsored Brands business from a multi-million to a multi-billion dollar enterprise by leading engineering, product, and data teams.
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Career

Work history

2-2026
Senior Director of Engineering
Expedia Group
4-2025 - 2-2026
VP of Engineering
SQUIRE
11-2023 - 2-2025
Head of Engineering - Stripe Subscriptions and Invoicing
Stripe
4-2020 - 11-2023
Head of Engineering, Product, Data - Sponsored Brands Creative Experience
Amazon
1-2019 - 4-2020
Director of Engineering
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Education
1996 - 2000
Bachelor of Engineering
Bangalore University
1982 - 1994
Education details unavailable
Sri Aurobindo Memorial School
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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