Anshu Kumar

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San Francisco, California, United States14 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • Engineering leader with 10+ years at Uber.
  • Expert in building scalable mobility solutions.
  • Passionate about AI integration in product development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobility Solutions Architect with expertise in scalable product development and AI integration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentEngineering LeadershipAi IntegrationTeam LeadershipClient ManagementIntegrated Booking ExperienceSupply Ecosystem ManagementApi IntegrationsVehicle TrackingShipping SolutionsDynamic Plugin DevelopmentWeb Software DevelopmentWeb Portal EnhancementWeb Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Banking SolutionsCC++Carrier RoutingConfiguration ManagementData StructuresDistributed SystemsDriver ExperienceDroolsEclipseEnd-to-End SolutionsFantasy Sports DevelopmentFleet Management

About

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling products at Uber. Passionate about growing high-impact teams and using technology to shape the future of mobility.

Experience

14 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Uber

6 roles

Engineering Leader - Segment Expansion

Promoted

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Driving growth for Uber for Business (U4B) by identifying and building solutions for new and underserved customer segments. We built and launched new products for
  • Delegate Bookings - through which executives and care-receivers and delegate their profiles to their EAs and caregivers who can book and manage rides on behalf of the delegated user. Learn more at > https://www.uber.com/en-IN/blog/executive-travel/
  • Reserve for guests - providing functionality for the users to be able to reserve trips for their guests.
  • We are currently building AI agents to empower U4B coordinators to book and manage trips for their customers more seamlessly and effortlessly.
Engineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentAI Integration

Engineering Manager - Vouchers and Gift Cards

Feb 2022Feb 2024 · 2 yrs

  • Leading the vouchers and gift cards engineering teams where we provide an end to end solution to external organizations ranging from small startups all the way to Fortune 500 companies to subsidize transportation and meals for their employees, guests and customers on Uber.
  • Read more on >
  • Vouchers: https://www.uber.com/in/en/business/products/vouchers/
  • Gift cards: https://www.uber.com/in/en/business/features/gift-cards/
Team LeadershipEnd-to-End SolutionsClient Management

Engineering Manager - MicroMobility

Nov 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • MicroMobility is the next big thing in Mobility domain which aims to provide riders an alternate low cost and environment friendly transportation option while also decongesting cities. My team is focussed on building an integrated booking experience used by riders to rent e-bikes, e-scooters, e-mopeds etc. in the core rider app through a scalable platform for our MicroMobility partners around the world to easily integrate with Uber.
Integrated Booking ExperienceScalable PlatformsMicroMobility Solutions

Engineering Manager - High Capacity Vehicles (UberBus) - Supply Team

Promoted

Jul 2019Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • High Capacity Vehicle is the next opportunity for Uber for growing the rider base to the “Next Billion Users”. Uber is very committed to reach out to these next billion users who are yet to experience the comfort and convenience of an Uber ride and are waiting to enjoy that experience at a price point which makes economic sense for them.
  • My team’s charter is to scale the ‘Supply’ for HCV while providing a seamless and consistent experience to the drivers, Uber operations and fleet managers. We own the end to end supply ecosystem with solutions ranging from efficient bus-stops/route creation, fleet management and driver assignment on these routes, driver app experience etc.
Supply Ecosystem ManagementFleet ManagementDriver Experience

Senior Software Engineer - Vehicle Solutions (Rentals)

Aug 2017Jul 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Tech lead for the Rentals charter of Vehicle Solutions org. We built the driver-partner onboarding flows and drove the third party integrations with rental companies to create a vehicle marketplace for drivers who want to drive on Uber platform but can't afford to buy a vehicle.
  • As part of this team, I drove the API integrations with multiple large scale rental companies across the world and architected the Rentals Platform which provides a generic API toolkit using which any rental company can integrate their rentals operations with Uber in a seamless and efficient way.
API IntegrationsMarketplace DevelopmentOnboarding Flows

Software Engineer - Vehicle Tracking and Telematics

Jan 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Founding engineer for Uber Bangalore Engineering centre and kickstarted the efforts for Vehicle tracking and telematics platform. Developed the software ecosystem around tracking and real time monitoring of the vehicles using GPS and telematics signals to ensure the compliance and safety for riders and drivers using these vehicles. This ecosystem also played a crucial role to alert Uber operations team for any possible frauds and violations happening on the ground.
  • We created scalable data ingestion, processing and analytics pipeline which was build using multiple open source technologies like Samza, Kafka, Oozie, Spark, HIVE etc.
Vehicle TrackingTelematicsReal-Time Monitoring

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2013Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Part of the Global Transportation Services team which builds solutions for providing the shipping capabilities to the packages travelling in the Amazon network. We owned a fleet of scalable, real-time services related to Carrier Routing, Manifesting and Labeling of the packages, of which most are tier-1 to the transportation operations. These softwares are based on SOA and use multiple cutting edge technologies related to storage, messaging, analytics, rules engine etc.
Shipping SolutionsReal-Time ServicesCarrier Routing

Google summer of code

[Google Summer of Code '12] Make all plugins dynamic for DrizzleDB

May 2012Aug 2012 · 3 mos

  • This project was a part of Google Summer of Code '12 for Drizzle and it involved making a majority of Drizzle plugins dynamic. Earlier, the plugins were designed in a way that if a change in configuration is needed, the server has to be restarted with the updated configuration. The scope of this project was to change the behavior of the Drizzle plugins, so that the configurations can be changed dynamically and it any change in options/variable/configuration is required, server has not to be restarted.
  • Project Blog: https://anshsays.wordpress.com/
Dynamic Plugin DevelopmentConfiguration Management

Ibm

The Great Mind Challenge 2010, IBM Academic Initiative

Sep 2010Mar 2011 · 6 mos

  • The application developed was a web software for Internet Banking Solutions. It is a service as offered by all the banks today. The aim was to lessen the efforts of customers for all required tasks. The system was available to all the customers having a valid login ID and password. Customers can avail facilities such as viewing their balance & account statements; transferring funds from one account to another; request for cheque book, stop payments of cheques, bill payments and many more. The system was integrated with SMS and Email on all transactions as well as an IVRS facilities which was done using Ribbit API (a subsidiary of British Telecommunications). A separate portal for administrator was also designed to manage all the admin issues.
Web Software DevelopmentBanking Solutions

Infogile technologies

Software Internship

May 2010Jun 2010 · 1 mo · Gurgaon

  • Involved in enhancement of a fantasy sports league web portal. Added some features and also made some critical bug check-in. The experience was very good working there as the whole system was live with a lot of customers. Was also involved in design and development of J2ME based mobile applications.
  • Technologies Used- ASP.NET, MS SQL, MS Visual SourceSafe.
Fantasy Sports DevelopmentWeb Portal Enhancement

Ibm

The Great Mind Challenge 2009, IBM Academic Initiative

Sep 2009Feb 2010 · 5 mos

  • The product was a web based software to "Manage a Group of Hotels". The aim of the project was management of a group of hotels by a central authority to provide complete concoction of solutions to all hotel management problems like financing, accounting, inventory management etc. It also integrated customer services like online and any place booking along with features like central assessment of performance reports by Managing Director. This project was selected for the final round of the contest.
Hotel Management SoftwareWeb Development

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

B. Tech + M. Tech — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2013

Central Academy, Kota

XII — Science (+Mathematics)

Jan 2005Jan 2007

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