Ankit Singhal

CTO

Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan15 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led global teams in building scalable backend systems.
Achieved 99.99% availability in cloud solutions.
Expert in AWS and distributed systems architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure expert in SaaS and Telecommunications.

Contact

ankit.jhil@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)LeadershipKubernetesTeam LeadershipDistributed SystemsCore Java

Other Skills

Amazon VPCApache KafkaCloud ComputingCloud StorageCloud-Native ArchitectureCoachingData StructuresISDN User Part (ISUP)MultithreadingPL/SQLPeople ManagementPublic SpeakingSession Initiation Protocol (SIP)Spring FrameworkTeam Building

About

At SmartNews, my focus has been on leading a global team to build scalable, resilient, and secure backend infrastructure, ensuring our SaaS layer meets the rigorous demands of product development. Our systems consistently handle thousands of requests per second, demonstrating our commitment to reliability and performance. My tenure as an Group Head fortified my expertise in cloud administration, specifically with AWS, and in architecting solutions that guarantee 99.99% availability. We thrive on creating systems that not only meet strict SLAs but do so cost-effectively, embodying a philosophy that balances innovation with pragmatic engineering practices.

Experience

Smartnews

2 roles

Group Head - Core Infrastructure

Promoted

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Distributed SystemsKubernetesLeadershipPeople ManagementCloud-Native Architecture

Engineering Manager - Infrastructure Services

Apr 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Managing a global team of highly skilled engineers across China and Japan with expertise in building scalable, resilient and secure distributed backend infrastructure systems to provide stable SaaS layer to feature and product development teams.
Also serving as a technical architect for designing resilient systems meeting strict SLAs without compromising cost and performance.
Leading a gamut of product platforms :
Push Platform
Location Platform
API Platform
A/B Test Platform
Account Platform
Configuration Platform
Payments Platform
These systems are serving multi thousand requests per second to millions of end users with high reliability and availablity.

KubernetesTeam LeadershipTeam ManagementTeam CoordinationCoachingTeam Mentoring+2

Paytm

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2020 – Apr 2021 · 5 mos

Disrupting the fintech industry by building highly scalable and stable payment platform and working as a lead architect for Ant Financial Platform for designing the system to
scale for multi-thousand payments per second while maintaining 99.99% availability.

Apache KafkaPeople ManagementTeam ManagementDistributed Systems

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

Building India's most scalable payments platform capable of handling multi thousand transactions per second.
Responsible for designing new features, increase the scalability of core payment engine, ensuring the stability of platform, building, nurturing and coaching the development team.

Senior Technical Lead

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs

Agnity, inc

Technical Lead

Feb 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida

Worked as a lead developer responsible for the end to end designing and development of the NGIN applications with core emphasis on performance and user experience. Various applications were synthesized by the team during this period.
Developed and deployed 911 Emergency Application @ Mexico.
Developed and deployed IZZI Routing service @Mexico.
Developed Call Screening application, VPN application etc.

Snapdeal

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2015 – Feb 2016 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

Creation of one-stop shop platform for world famous brands to showcase their products and let users buy those products from authorized sellers of those brands.

Team LeadershipTeam BuildingSession Initiation Protocol (SIP)ISDN User Part (ISUP)Core JavaPL/SQL

Oracle india pvt ltd

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Mar 2015 · 8 mos · Noida Area, India

Enhancing Oracle Web Services Security Manager which provides a policy framework to manage and secure Web services. Worked on various security standards like OAuth, SAML, and WS-*.

Distributed SystemsCore JavaMultithreading

Agnity, inc

Senior Member Technical Staff

Jul 2010 – Jul 2014 · 4 yrs · Noida Area, India

1. Working as a lead developer (SME) in ACONYX(R) FlexYcharge application for some of the top clients worldwide.
2. Traveled Japan multiple times during this tenure for Deployment of whole system at SoftBank Telecom Corp.
3. Successfully migrated the Aconyx® FlexYcharge project, handling the live Prepaid and Postpaid traffic for International and Domestic SoftBank Mobile and Landline customers.
4. Worked in SBTM Production (NOC) and Lab systems for deployment and support of Agnity’s Service Node product that itself is composed of complex products ranging from SIP platform, NGIN applications to FlexYcharge Applications.