Amit’s story

Grab Trust and Safety: Deploying Facial Verification and Abuse Prevention

Led product strategy for trust and safety at Grab, deploying facial verification and real-time abuse prevention across Southeast Asia.

Amit Ranjan

Co-Founder at Potli

PPotli
VVoizo
EElectricPe
UUolo.com
CCareem
15+ years of experience

From their time as

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Lead Product Manager

Grab β€’ 2018 - 2019

Overview

Amit led product for trust and safety at Grab, covering the systems that protected both riders and the platform from fraud, impersonation, and abuse.

The Story

Amit led product for trust and safety at Grab, covering the systems that protected both riders and the platform from fraud, impersonation, and abuse.

The work spanned three areas. First, he deployed facial verification with liveness detection for users, a capability that reduced crime and impersonation on the platform. Second, he developed vehicle telematics and NLP capabilities that improved customers' safety perception. Third, he built real-time promo and payment abuse prevention features that saved meaningful bottom-line losses.

The role required operating across multiple Southeast Asian markets, each with different regulatory environments and user behaviors, while maintaining a consistent safety standard across the platform.