Ankit Shah

CEO

Redmond, Washington, United States27 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 22+ years in software engineering leadership roles.
  • Proven track record in transforming engineering roadmaps.
  • Passionate about AI and distributed systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on AI and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipDistributed SystemsMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)Google Cloud Platform (gcp)Amazon S3Software EngineeringCloud Storage

Other Skills

Agile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsC++Cloud ComputingCross-functional Team LeadershipCryptocurrency TradingData EngineeringData StreamingE-CommerceEngineeringEngineering ManagementEnterprise SoftwareGo (Programming Language)Google BigQuery

About

22+ years in software engineering including leadership roles at Amazon, Coinbase and Google, focusing on delivering engineering roadmap transforming businesses. I am passionate about mentoring teams, delivering impactful technical initiatives, and shaping the future of AI-powered distributed systems. Proven track record of delivery engineering roadmaps that have transformed customers. In my next chapter, I am passionate about applying my software engineering and AI/machine learning skills to transform businesses. I am currently leading distributed backend infrastructure engineering teams to solve critical challenges in distributed systems and incorporate AI capabilities at the infrastructure layer.

Experience

Mixpanel

Senior Engineering Management Leader

May 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Leading infrastructure engineering teams at Mixpanel to enhance to deliver trillions of data analytics events in real time while integrating AI capabilities.
  • Directed engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions for critical distributed systems challenges.
  • Executed a strategic roadmap for AI-native backend features, improving overall system efficiency.
  • Reduced cloud infrastructure costs for key analytics customers through advanced AI implementations.
Technical LeadershipStorage ArchitectureDistributed SystemsQuery OptimizationData StreamingEngineering Management+6

Coinbase

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

  • Built and managed multiple crypto asset engineering teams, accelerating asset integration speed by 10X through automation and API self-service offerings.
  • Translated crypto asset engineering mission and strategy into a multi-quarter roadmap for engineering delivery.
  • Collaborated with engineering leadership and product stakeholders to define and execute long-term technical strategies.
C++Amazon Web Services (AWS)Test AutomationPeople ManagementJavaCross-functional Team Leadership+6

Google

Engineering Leadership

Apr 2017Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area · On-site

  • Lead GCP Cloud Deployment Manager and Big Query as part of engineering leadership for Google cloud platform.
C++Go (Programming Language)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cross-functional Team LeadershipTechnical LeadershipDistributed Systems+4

Amazon

Engineering leadership

Dec 2014Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Lead AWS Simple Storage Services [S3] engineering initiatives delivering multiple ground breaking features for S3 object blob store.
Software ManagementE-CommerceEngineering ManagementAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Distributed Systems+2

Symantec

Principal Software Engineer

Oct 2005Sep 2014 · 8 yrs 11 mos · United States · On-site

  • Led cloud-based information management program and File system workloads program as technical lead.
  • Designed and developed automatic image replication capabilities for Symantec’s Netbackup enterprise product.
  • Incepted new storage paradigm by integrating on-premise data backup products with cloud storage.
Cloud StorageStorage ArchitectureDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringC++Java+1

Perficient

Software Engineer

Sep 2004Sep 2005 · 1 yr

  • Technical lead for designing and developing healthcare software in Java.

Ibm server technology

Software Engineer

May 2002Sep 2004 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Designed and developed IBM's iSeries server socket communication protocol using C/C++.

The ohio state university - networking research lab

Research Assistant

Nov 1999May 2002 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Responsible for research on ‘voice over IP’ protocol. Research funded by National science foundation.
  • The project ‘voice over IP’ was a major breakthrough in voice and video transfer over internet (TCP/IP networks) in effectively utilizing bandwidth and delay.Currently ‘voice over IP’ is widely utilized and commercialized by voice over IP providers/companies.

Gold vision electronics

CEO and Founder

Apr 1997Apr 1999 · 2 yrs · India

  • Founder and CEO of gold vision electronics - Startup in manufacturing DIY kits for monochrome Smart Televisions for mass market.

Education

Stanford University

Artificial Intelligence professional program — Artificial Intelligence professional program

Jul 2025Jan 2026

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Product leadership program

Jan 2019Jan 2019

University of Minnesota

Master's degree — MBA

Jan 2008Jan 2012

The Ohio State University

B.S. — computer science and computer engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2001

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