Ashish Shukla

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17 years of diverse engineering leadership experience.
  • Successfully built and scaled teams from scratch.
  • Expert in managing complex engineering projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering leader in EdTech and Transportation sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSoftware DevelopmentMicroservicesTeam LeadershipSearch SystemsInformation Retrieval

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidBackend DevelopmentCC#C++Cloud ComputingComputer ScienceCore JavaData StructuresDebuggingDistributed SystemsE-commerce

About

A Seasoned Engineering Leader with 17 years of experience in a wide range of technology companies, from networks and file system development to eCommerce, transportation, and ed-tech. Grew teams from scratch while setting the right culture and processes, and consistently achieving business results.

Experience

Paytm

Associate Vice President

Feb 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Byju's

2 roles

Senior Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2022Feb 2023 · 11 mos

  • Byju's is the largest ed-tech company in the world with over 100M downloads. I lead two separate product charters `Byju's Tuition Centre` and `Devices Engineering`. Started both of them from scratch.
  • My contributions included ideating, releasing MVPs of the product, hiring and structuring the teams, settings the engineering processes, roadmap setting, etc.
Engineering ManagementSoftware Development

Director Of Engineering

Dec 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Headed Byjus Tuition Centre
  • BYJU’S Tuition Centre is a network of tech-enabled classroom centers spread throughout the country. There are 200+ centers already and slated to be 1000 centers at full scale. I bootstrapped the team by pulling engineers from the devices division and delivered the MVP in Dec 2021, and gradually built a team of 40+ engineers. The team creates various tools and portals to make the whole ecosystem run smoothly. We cater to 50K students currently and consistently increasing, with a target of 1 million students. Multiple microservices support student management (enrollment, attendance, etc), tutor management, and class management (batches, timetable, etc).
  • Headed Devices Engineering Charter
  • Started the Devices engineering team at Byju's in Early 2020, when I joined. Built the team from scratch to over 40 engineers working across Android, AOSP/BSP, and the backend and MDM(mobile device management). Ideated the 'LearnStation' [Byju's 1st in-house device] through phases of beta testing, early release, and stabilizing. The Learnstation ecosystem includes services for identity management(across byjus apps), backend device controls, device setup, and monitoring. I was also instrumental in creating processes around device logistics, return handling, support processes, on-call, etc.
Engineering ManagementSoftware Development

Grab

Engineering Manager

Jun 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Singapore

  • Lead the Driver Backend team.
  • Owned multiple(10+) microservices related to drivers, handling drivers data, login, trip flow completion, receipts, tipping, etc.
  • managed 13 developers team.
  • Launched multiple features and new services including automated ERP, tipping, Driver profile, Driver Benefits, Discovery Hub, Driver earning overview, multiple vehicle support, vehicle entity, etc.
MicroservicesTeam Leadership

Ola (ani technologies pvt ltd)

Engineering Manager

Jan 2017Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading Ola Share team,
  • Owned multiple critical services related to Share, including matching engine, orchestrator service, trackride etc.
  • These services are multi-tenant, distributed, scalable, highly available, fault tolerant and low latency high throughput systems.
  • Had a team of 12 developers.
MicroservicesTeam Leadership

Walmart labs

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2013Jan 2017 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Search team (@Labs)
  • Autocomplete for Walmart.com and later launched it for other tenants like samsclub.com, asda.com etc.
  • Item badges infrastructure setup. Added best seller, top-rated, few left badges for items in search results.
  • user feedback-driven department prediction.
  • Indexing/Signal pipeline Optimizations
  • Information retrieval, relevance and ranking, Java, hadoop, mapreduce, solr, search system etc
Search SystemsInformation Retrieval

Microsoft

SDE II

Dec 2011Nov 2012 · 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Worked on Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Netapp

MTS 2

Jan 2008Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked in Storage Efficiency Group on following projects :
  • WAFL
  • Dedupe
  • File Level FlexClone
  • C in unix environment

Alcatel-lucent

MTS

Jul 2006Dec 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Strong Networking Knowledge at L2/L3 Layer.
  • Vlan membership management/Filter Table updation algorithms.
  • 15K Series and RS switches/router of Riverstone Networks.
  • C in Unix environment.

Calance

Summer Intern

May 2005Jun 2005 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • 2 months internship during summer vacation

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

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

Jan 2002Jan 2006

Harvard Business School

Certificate of Completion — Leadership Principles

Jan 2019Jan 2019

Vivekanand School

Class 12

Jan 2000Jan 2002

Holy Angel School

Class 10th

Jan 1990Jan 2000

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