Ankit Gomkale

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built a collaborative care platform for chronic patients.
  • Led development of a Transport Management System acquired for $1.5B.
  • Created a priority-based allocation engine optimizing business parameters.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Telecom expert with strong capabilities in product management and software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementArchitectureBusiness StrategyProduct DevelopmentData ManagementDistributed SystemsFraud PreventionCustomer GrowthSoftware DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentCustomer EngagementPerformance OptimizationTelecom Engineering

Other Skills

Agile PracticesAlgorithmsApache KafkaAutomation TestingCC++CDCChange Data CaptureCustomer Growth and LoyaltyData StructuresDecision-MakingDesign PatternsEntrepreneurshipFraud ReductionGeo-Fencing

About

Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience in building (and breaking) things. Love building products from 0 to 1 and scaling them from 1 to N. Known for getting into trenches and getting my hands dirty. Prefer working in a fast-paced and challenging environment. Passionate about distributed systems, problem-solving, and life overall.

Experience

13 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Google

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Goto group

3 roles

Principal Engineer

Mar 2023Oct 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Lead cross-team initiatives for complex projects.
  • Work closely with Product/Business and engineering team to refine requirements, identify risks early, create an engineering roadmap, and manage the backlog.
  • Participate in architectural discussions of the org-wide initiatives and shape the architecture of the large-scale systems.
  • Mentorship and training of the junior engineers to maintain the engineering edge of the team
  • Created a priority-based allocation engine that allows business owners to optimize for parameters such as GMV, SLA, Conversion-Rate, and BCR (Booking Completion Rate), reducing burn while increasing gross take value.
Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentArchitectureDistributed Systems

Technical Lead

Promoted

Aug 2021Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Led a small team of 5 experience developers
  • Led the development of the Transport Management System (TMS) for FM/LM conventional deliveries. Successfully convinced the leadership to invest more time in building a separate ecosystem, rather than extending existing services. The conventional delivery system that we built was later acquired by Bytedance (along with Tokopedia for $1.5B).
  • Driven org-wide initiatives such as GCP Infrastructure Migration, Cost cutting initiatives, etc.
Product ManagementArchitectureDistributed Systems

Senior Product Engineer

Jul 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Gojek is a Jakarta based on-demand multi-service platform and digital payment technology group. I work with the Logistics team which handles GoSend (on-demand delivery) across Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand with more than 10 million orders per month.
  • Significant Contributions:
  • 1. Change Data Capture: Developed a fully distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly reliable service which guarantees 100% ordered delivery of change event logs in Kafka. This project allowed us to have better governance over the data quality, to do real-time data analysis, and to integrate the data with other products offered by GoJek.
  • 2. Fraud Reduction: Worked on various projects such as Geo-Fencing, OTP verification on order reversal, Proof of pickup/delivery, etc which aim to save $1M/year.
  • 3. Customer Growth and Loyalty: Worked on GoClub - customer loyalty program by GoJek, which is a part of the initiative to increase the order volume by 30%.
Change Data CaptureFraud ReductionCustomer Growth and LoyaltyProduct DevelopmentData Management

Bankbazaar

Senior Software Developer

Dec 2017Jun 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • BankBazaar.com is an online marketplace that gives paperless access to financial products such as Credit Cards, Loans, Insurance, etc.
  • Achievements:
  • 1. Implemented Call Verification feature which is expected to reduce customer drop by 15-20% and increase overall conversion by 10%
  • 2. Implemented Customer Review feature for Credit Tracker. This feature is expected to give SEO boost to Bankbazaar website and, in turn, give a huge advantage over competitors.
  • 3. Implemented a security feature which stops any CSRF attacks on the website.
  • Roles:
  • 1. Member of the Credit Tracker Team. Credit Tracker is the most popular feature on Bankbazaar website with millions of unique users visiting every month.
  • 2. Member of Website Restructuring Team which works on the scalability aspect of the website. The team is responsible for identifying performance bottlenecks, re-architecting problematic codes, migrating old frameworks to newer frameworks.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. End-to-end software designing and timely delivering with accurate estimations.
  • 2. Reviewing architecture and codes of peers. Providing feedbacks and enforcing high coding standards.
  • 3. Handling critical production issues and providing fixes in time constrained situations
  • 4. On-Call activities, Bug-Bashing, Monitoring performance metrics, setting relevant alerts, etc.
Software DevelopmentSecurity FeaturesWebsite ScalabilityWeb Development

Betterconnectplus (formerly smarterclinics)

Co-Founder & CTO

Feb 2016Nov 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • BetterConnect+ is a goal based collaborative care platform for chronic patients. Our platform allows doctors, patients, and care-managers to collaborate and stay connected throughout the recovery procedure. BetterConnect+ is backed by Dalmia Group & Microsoft Ventures.
  • Achievements:
  • 1. Successfully built the product and piloted it with 5000+ patients
  • 2. Raised seed funding from Dalmia Group, Holostics, and Microsoft Ventures
  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • 1. Collecting user requirements & defining architecture of the system
  • 2. Server-side coding & schema designing
  • 3. REST API development, maintenance & documentation
  • 4. Managing a small team of developers & facilitating collaboration among them
  • 5. Adopting Agile practices, setting coding standards, & performing acceptance testing
Product DevelopmentREST API DevelopmentAgile PracticesProduct ManagementSoftware Development

C-dot- centre for development of telematics, telecom r&d center of indian government

Research Engineer

Aug 2012Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Center for Development of Telematics [C-DoT] is a telecom technology development center. Here I worked on Self-Organizing Network module in 4G technology. My side project was on developing automation tool to reduce testing-cycle time.
  • Achievement:
  • Developed an automation testing tool for load and regression testing. This tool reduced the testing time by 40% and completely obviated the need to manual test-report generation.
  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • 1. Handover algorithm optimization for SON (Self Organizing Networks) module in 4G
  • 2. Designed the user interface of OAM (Operation & Maintenance) module for telecom operators
  • 3. Played crucial role in integrating SON & OAM modules in the complete 4G protocol stack
  • 4. Developed an automation tool which reduced the burden of manual testing
  • 5. Trained two junior research engineers in my telecom domain (SON & OAM)
Automation TestingTelecom TechnologyTelecom EngineeringSoftware Development

Education

NIT Nagpur

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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