Ankit Jain

VP of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India15 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led backend platform organization at Salesforce.
Managed teams in startups and MNCs up to 40 members.
Expert in building scalable distributed systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused leader in SaaS and E-Commerce industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsHigh ScaleSoftware Development Life Cycle (sdlc)Cloud InfrastructureE-commerce Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon AWSAndroid DevelopmentAngularJSArtificial Intelligence (AI)Async ComputeAutomationBackend DevelopmentBusiness-to-Business (B2B)CC++Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Core JavaData MigrationData Structures

About

o Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce with 15+ years of experience in Microsoft, Amazon & Start-ups in various stages. o Experience of setting up and leading large scale Backend platform org. At a scale of 10 Billion+ queries every day and storage capacity of several Tera Bytes. Currently owning 4 scrum teams of Async Compute, Distributed Queue(Kafka), Distributed Cache(Redis) and Search Engine. o 8+ years of experience in managing teams in both start-up and MNCs of org size up to 40 including Managers and Principal engineers. o Experience in building and managing a geographically distributed team. o Experience of working as Head of Engineering in a Series A VC funded start-up.

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Salesforce

2 roles

Senior Director of Software Engineering - Distributed Systems Platform

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

I am leading backend platform org. Owning multiple distributed services such as Distributed Queue(Kafka), Distributed Cache(Redis), Search Engine and Async Compute, with the scale of 10 billion+ requests every day.

Distributed Queue(Kafka)Distributed Cache(Redis)Search EngineAsync ComputeDistributed SystemsHigh Scale

Director of Software Engineering -Distributed Systems Platform

Feb 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

I am leading Distributed System platform org. Owning multiple managed bigdata services such as Kafka, Redis, Elastic Search, with the scale of 10 billion+ requests every day.

Executive-level CommunicationSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Business-to-Business (B2B)Software as a Service (SaaS)Distributed SystemsHigh Scale

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022 · 5 mos

I am leading Password and Payment team in Edge Browser.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Software as a Service (SaaS)

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

I am leading/managing the password and payment engineering team in Edge browser. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge)
Before that, I was the technical lead for the data platform team. Where I l have led a group of data scientists/engineers in architecting big data pipelines for processing telemetry/diagnostic data from around a billion devices.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Castle global, inc.

Engineering Manager

Jan 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

Working on backend infrastructure of highly scalable Enterprise and Consumer apps.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Business-to-Business (B2B)Software as a Service (SaaS)

Curo healthcare

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

I am building and leading engineering team at Curo.

Executive-level CommunicationSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Software as a Service (SaaS)

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Nov 2015 – Dec 2015 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Software as a Service (SaaS)

Mobolt, inc

Founding Team Member (Senior Software Engineer) - Acquired by Indeed

Jan 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Being an early employee, I set-up Tech Infrastructure, which involves setting up of cloud infrastructure on Amazon AWS services and integrating various 3rd party services for monitoring/notification/tracking e.t.c. I also undertook designing and implementing a framework to facilitate quick development of robust backend code for each company.
The goals were to minimize the coding required for adding a new client, remove the nuances of the underlying technologies, control over the load, reporting etc. I am also actively involved in Team Building and hired close to a dozen Software Engineer at various levels.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Complete Ownership of Assisted Ordering Application of Amazon Webstore.(http://webstore.amazon.com/)
Assisted Ordering Application consists of agent assisted ordering feature through phone or merchants store agents.
Architecture design for huge data migration of 2 big Amazon merchants. Number of customers were in millions.
Automation of Huge data extraction relevant to E-Commerce domain for big enterprise using (Oracle, SQL, ETL).
Wrote Automation Tool from scratch for Data Validation, QA, Encryption and other post extraction processes using Java.
Rewrote complete back-end for 2 big Amazon merchants using new Address and Payment Apis.
Seamless redirection of customers from one architecture (perl mason) to another (Java), without asking customers for re-authentication.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)