Pankaj Kumar Sharma

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in managing large engineering teams.
  • Hands-on experience in distributed systems and big data.
  • Expertise in automating complex engineering processes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with extensive experience in E-commerce and Data Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringEngineering ManagementTechnical Staff Management

Other Skills

AerospikeAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApache CamelApache DruidApache KafkaApache SparkArchitecture ReviewsCC#C++C/C++ STLCloud ApplicationsCore JavaData Structures

About

Experienced engineering leader with a proven track record in the internet industry. Expertise in managing large engineering teams and hands-on technical experience in distributed systems and big data. Strong background with a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Computer Science from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Experience

Urban company

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • In addition to Partner onboarding and supply core, started handling product business including Native brand

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managing 2 teams comprising of 16-17 engineers including 2 engineering managers
  • 1. Partner onboarding : Handling end-to-end partner onboarding starting from lead acquisition. Automated and made the whole process self-serve from largely operations driven.
  • 2. Training platform : Conducting any training including performance related, new onboarding etc. Managing all the training infrastructure, trainers and partners calendars etc. Make sure of newly onboarded partners quality via various interventions.
  • 3. Supply core & international: Handling partner apps (Android and iOS) as well as supply core systems and international (UAE, Singapore, KSA etc) engineering.
Data EngineeringPerformance ManagementEngineering ManagementArchitecture ReviewsEngineering Leadership

Flipkart

5 roles

Technical Lead

Jul 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Supervised two teams, comprising over 10 full-time engineers and 5 interns, over separate 6-month periods
  • 1. Product selection team (Size: 5 full time engineers): Team goal was to make sure Flipkart has right selection.This involved customer query & accompanying result analysis, competitor analysis. Helping sellers improve their catalog etc
  • 2. Seller growth team (Size: 5 full time engineers): Helping sellers grow by rewarding and incentivising them for good behaviour. Helping them increase their sales by providing proper pricing of the products etc
  • 3. MRP fraud detection (Size: 5 interns): Stopping MRP frauds using various methodologies like OCR product images, analyse customer reviews, historical price variations etc
  • 4. Analytics (Size: 5 interns) : Various small projects across teams
Data EngineeringEngineering ManagementArchitecture ReviewsTechnical Staff Management

Software Development Engineer 4

Jul 2019Jun 2020 · 11 mos

  • Guided team on multiple projects. Highlighting the major once below
  • 1. Actioning framework. Worked on high level design and guiding in execution of a generic seller actioning framework which had complex rules and worked on hundred of GBs of data. This is used to take corrective actions for defaulting e.g. on quality metric like higher seller attributable returns
  • Major technologies : Drools, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Java, MySQL
  • 2. Revamping seller ranking system. Sellers are ranked depending upon their overall performance and awarded accordingly. Worked on revamping the system from grounds-up to simplify as well as make it extensible.
  • Major technologies : Hive, Java, MySQL
Data Engineering

Software Development Engineer 3

Promoted

Jul 2017Jun 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Worked with multiple teams and projects simultaneously, major once mentioned below:
  • 1. Owned and launched seller score as lead developer. This is shown on each product page on Flipkart page and help customers in decisioning.
  • Major technologies : Java, Dropwizard, Maven
  • 2. Seller metrics page with low latency and huge amount of data. Drove from requirement gathering till delivery. Evaluated multiple data storage for unique requirement of low latency for huge amount of data with real time slice-dice use-case.
  • Major technologies : Apache Druid, Kafka, Spark, Scala
  • 3. Owned and made major enhancements to fAssured tag and other internal quality projects like listing quality score
  • Major technologies : Apache Camel, Hive, Spark, Kafka
  • 4. Brand regulations. Solutioning and guide for many enhancements for brand regulations.
  • Major technologies : Activiti BPMN, drools, OCR, Java, MySQL
Data Engineering

Software Development Engineer 2

Promoted

Jan 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Jan-June 2016
  • Worked on seller creditor workflows and made multiple enhancements in the system.
  • Major technologies involved: Java, MySQL
  • July-Dec 2016
  • Lead seller payment reporting system (Codenamed Lynx) and made the system live while mentoring newer members in the team.
  • Major technologies involved: Java, Hive, MySQL
  • Jan-June 2017
  • Worked as lead developer on near real time seller payments reporting system contributing in high level and low level design of the system including tech choices.
  • Major technologies involved: Spark streaming, Apache Camel, Apache Kafka, Drools, ElasticSearch, Scala
Data Engineering

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • July-Dec 2014
  • Worked on customer accounting system which mostly involved dev-ops work. Quickly became single point-of-contact for any issues and enhancements for the system.
  • Major technologies involved: Ruby, Padrino framework, MySQL
  • Jan-July 2015
  • Ironed out issues in debtor reconciliation system (including 3rd party logistics and banks as debtors) and made it live mostly independently within a short duration. Was recognised for the same from senior team member for the same.
  • Major technologies involved: Java, DropWizard framework, Google Guice, MySQL, Jenkins
  • July-Dec 2015
  • Part of founding team for lending growth capital which facilitates loans to sellers. Owned 2 micro-services and worked on multiple micro-services helping in launch in short span of few months from conceptualisation to delivery.
  • Major technologies involved: Java, Activiti BPMN / workflow, MySQL

Iiit hyderabad

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2013Dec 2013 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Was teaching assistant for Advanced Problem Solving course which focused on enhancing problem solving skills using C++ programming language. Was involved in setting up and running the lab, setting up server for programming contest for assessments and correcting answer sheets

Microsoft

Intern (Software Development Engineer in Test )

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Interned in Azure-Workflow team. Developed an automation tool for doing RCA (Root cause analysis) in case of any alerts from the system, this removed the manual intervention and decreased the time of finding the root cause significantly.

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2014

SKIT Jaipur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Birla School ,Pilani

SSCE — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2007

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