Ankit Agrawal

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Gurgaon, Haryana, India17 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Led development of a loyalty platform for 300+ million users.
Innovative solutions in e-commerce and payments domains.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack architect in E-commerce and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Architecture DesigningService Oriented ArchitectureFull Stack DevelopmentSystem DesignSoftware Development

Other Skills

AJAXAntApache KafkaApplication DevelopmentBarcode System DesignCCassandraData Ingestion IntegrationEclipseElasticSearchFinancial ServicesFramework ImplementationHTML5 Mobile ApplicationsHibernateInventory Management

About

Software Architect and a Technology Leader with close to 12 years of experience in ideation, requirement analysis, architecture, design, development and successful deployment of new product initiatives. Lead teams in managing product specifications, technology selection, product development & integration. - Expertise in developing Highly Scalable Distributed Systems in e-commerce, healthcare and payments domains. -Highly innovative and creative with sharp business acumen - guaranteeing world class execution. Deep understanding on how to successfully build and manage large and infinitely scalable e-commerce enterprise products and solutions utilizing cutting-edge technologies like big data, NoSQL, distributed solutions, virtualization techniques. - Setting up industry best practices for SDLC processes including requirements gathering, use-case analysis, data modelling, implementation, unit testing, deployment, production support and mentoring. - Building SOA architecture with high scalability, realtime services and adopting new open source technologies. Extensive experience for low latency delivery of static and dynamic content. Specialties: • Architecture designing and delivery management • Service Oriented Architecture • Big Data Technology - Cassandra, Elastic Search, SOLR, SPARK and Kafka etc • R&D, Engineering and SDLCs - Agile - Scrum

Experience

Info edge india ltd

Senior Technical Architect

Apr 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

Times internet

Technology Lead

Oct 2016 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

Works closely with CTO on some of the Business Critical Technology Initiatives at Times Internet.
Defined vision and direction for loyalty & rewards platform – leading the development
(design/architecture and coding) of scalable, and robust Loyalty Rules Engine (Realtime and Batch).
Built the product from scratch (a highly performant and low latent system that rewards 300+ million users on their engagement in near real time based on several algorithms)
Evolved promotions platform by delivering several new innovations (Bundles, Targeted user offers, Affordability constructs, Product exchange) to increase customer engagement / retention.
Worked with internal client teams for integrations with data ingestion platforms and helped with technical guidance/best practices.

Loyalty Rules EngineScalable SystemsReal-time ProcessingData Ingestion IntegrationArchitecture designingService Oriented Architecture

Paytm

Technology Lead

Feb 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Noida

Building and maintaining web-services responsible for managing and securing 100+ million users with millions of queries an hour. Ensuring end-to-end availability and performance of complete platform.
Driving rapid product innovation and leading full stack development efforts with a core team of 7 engineers.
Scaling features and platform to enable all paytm products (including wallet, payments, recharges, marketplace etc.) and third party merchants leverage a standardised central authentication and user management system.
Integration with a plethora of micro services across the organization.

Web ServicesUser ManagementMicroservices IntegrationService Oriented ArchitectureFull Stack Development

Healthkart

Sr. Software Engineer

Jun 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

Designed and code a system for item level bar-coding where each item has been given a unique identity which allows a complete tracking of a particular item.
Inventory Health check – It’s a heart of WMS system which do complete health check- up of inventory and accordingly take order of desired quantity and makes product in- Stock and out-of- stock.
Booking Engine – Analogous to railway booking system where each item has been booked with order placement and can be tracked at any time till its delivery.
Gateway Integration – Setting up a citrus/EBS/ICICI as other gateway for payment option and distributing traffic at run time on availability and success rates for them.

Inventory ManagementPayment Gateway IntegrationBarcode System DesignSystem DesignSoftware Development

Itaas, inc

Software Engineer

May 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

Contributed towards the common framework (configuration, exception Handling, logging) implementation.
Created many HTML5 mobile applications for iPad & Android with complete ownership for the design, development and testing of the applications.

HTML5 Mobile ApplicationsFramework ImplementationSoftware Development

Infosys technologies ltd

System Engineer

Feb 2009 – Apr 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bhubaneshwar

Key responsibilities included Design and development of vertical modules for Financial services ICD code migrations.
Contributing in setting up application development environment, evaluating technologies and requirement gathering.

Application DevelopmentFinancial ServicesSoftware Development