Yashas Shankar

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 8 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams to achieve 20× growth.
  • Delivered multi-million savings through innovative platforms.
  • Scaled tech stack to handle 6,000 orders/min.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce engineering leader with a strong focus on scalability and efficiency.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct StrategyEngineering EfficiencySoftware DevelopmentProduct InnovationSaas DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Other Skills

AI-driven code generationArchitecture OptimizationAutomationCC++Data PlatformsData-driven platform evolutionE-commerceGovernanceHigh-availability systemsJavaLinuxLogisticsOperating SystemsPerformance Management

About

Engineering Leader who has had the opportunity in building world-class engineering organizations and solving complex business and technology problems. Leading a talented team in building highly-scalable/robust compute platforms. Invented proven performance, growth, and SDLC frameworks to optimize engineering efficiency.

Experience

Atlassian

Head of Engineering

Feb 2024Oct 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dunzo

Head of Engineering

Mar 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Owned the end-to-end product and engineering strategy, scaling Dunzo Daily from zero to 20× growth with full P&L responsibility. Led a 100+ people cross-functional org across Engineering, Product, and Program Management.
  • Highlights:
  • Built and executed roadmap across logistics, supply chain, catalog, and data platforms.
  • Delivered $multi-million annual savings via a proprietary intelligent fulfilment platforms
  • Reduced per-order burn by 60%, improved CX by 50%, and cut operational costs by 30%.
  • Scaled org from 20 → 120+ with strong leadership layers (Directors, EMs, TPMs).
  • Drove 40%+ engineering efficiency using AI-driven code generation and automated releases.
  • Built 70% of the tech stack from scratch, scaling throughput from 500 → 6,000 orders/min.
  • Reduced infrastructure cost by 60% through architecture optimization and platform re-engineering.
Engineering LeadershipProduct Strategy

Myntra

Director Of Engineering

Apr 2018Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Led engineering for Revenue and Supply Chain Platforms spanning Pricing, Promotions, Catalog, Procurement, and Seller Experience — driving both product innovation and platform scale.
  • Delivered $multi-million incremental revenue, 50% higher sell-through, and 40% improvement in Seller NPS through data-driven platform evolution.
  • Built high-availability systems (80K QPS, 99.99% uptime), enhancing scalability by 60% and reliability by 40%.
  • Reduced commit-to-deploy latency by 75% and MTTR by 50% via precision engineering and automation.
  • Institutionalised robust governance frameworks, achieving 95%+ on-time releases.
  • Scaled and mentored 70+ engineers and senior managers, fostering accountability, innovation, and leadership depth.
  • Conceptualised and implemented performance and competency frameworks across Myntra, elevating manager effectiveness from 60% to 85%.
  • Drove the leadership learning forum across engineering to aid conceptualisation and adoption of best practices for performance management, hiring right, onboarding guide for leaders, and people management frameworks.
  • Worked with the Talent Acquisition team to ideate frameworks to improve candidate experience and joining probabilities.
Engineering LeadershipProduct Innovation

Jabong

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2015Jan 2016 · 6 mos

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2015Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Built global SaaS platforms and scaled multi-region tech for fashion e-commerce
  • Spearheaded SaaS platform delivery across 4 Global Fashion Group brands; delivered $25M+ in
  • revenue gains and resulting in 400% infrastructure cost savings
  • Led a 30+ engineering team to design and deliver next-generation Pricing, Promotions, Competitive Intelligence, and Order & Rewards Management platforms for Jabong and the Global Fashion Group (GFG)
  • Led post-acquisition tech convergence between Myntra and Jabong.
SaaS DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Netapp

Member Technical Staff 3

Aug 2012Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Was responsible for building the next-generation virtual storage platform.
  • Part of the multi-tenancy infrastructure group where we built solutions to support multi-tenancy across virtual storage namespaces.
  • Helped build a scalability automation engine which helped the company onboard this bot to the CI pipelines and catch any scalability issues during daily continuous integration runs.
  • Drove the cultural and technology forums across the vertical.

Eci telecom

Software Engineer II

Dec 2009Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Was instrumental in building the next generation packet/optical edge routers
  • Lead engineer to interface with the teams in Israel (involved frequent travel)) to aid seamless integration between the application ad the packet/optical boxes.
  • The capabilities built to support the configuration of the packet-optical routers were: Fault Management, Cross Connects, Fiber Connectivity, Equipment Management, and Ports and interfaces.

Florida state university

2 roles

Instructor - Young Scholars Program

May 2008Jul 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos · Tallahassee, Florida Area

  • Worked as an instructor for the ‘Intermediate and Advanced Computer Science Training’ course in the Young Scholars program (http://bio.fsu.edu/ysp/) for 2 summers, an initiative by the Florida State University to train very bright high school students from Florida in advanced computer science and programming. Was the only instructor to represent the computer science department in FSU for this initiative.

Teaching Assistant/Instructor

Aug 2007Aug 2009 · 2 yrs · Tallahassee, Florida Area

  • Worked as a Teaching Assistant for the Database Systems course. Taught the course ‘Introduction to Computer Programming - (COP3502)’ in Fall 2008. I had been given the full responsibility of the design, instruction and grading of this course.

Tracs florida / fsu

Software Developer

May 2008Aug 2008 · 3 mos · Tallahassee, Florida Area

  • Key contributor in the development of the TraCS Software Development Kit. I was involved in the automation of the collection and reporting of crash data across all the counties in Florida.

Cognizant technology solutions

Software Engineer

Jul 2006Jun 2007 · 11 mos

Education

Florida State University

MS — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Visvesvaraya Technological University

BE — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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