Abhishek Agarwal

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Drove 6x revenue growth through innovative ad features.
  • Managed platforms with peak traffic of 200K+ QPS.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AdTech and E-commerce with expertise in scalable engineering solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipAd Tech

Other Skills

AdvertisingAlgorithmsAndroidBluetoothCC++ConnectivityData StructuresE-CommerceEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded SystemsEngineering ManagementIOTJ2MEJava

About

16+ years of progressive experience with 6+ years of leadership experience in driving engineering strategy and delivering complex, high-scale distributed systems in AdTech and E-commerce domain. A proven leader with the ability to manage large teams and align complex engineering goals directly with core business objectives, delivering superior performance and accelerated growth. Key Expertise & Impact: Scalability & Architecture: Led the development of large-scale, multi-component distributed systems and Microservices, real time stream and batch event processing systems. Successfully managed platforms handling peak traffic of 200K+ Queries Per Second (QPS), requiring sub-200ms low latency. Business Impact: Drove significant revenue growth (6x in last 5 years) by conceptualizing and launching high-impact ad features, real-time targeting capabilities and platform monetization strategies. Engineering Leadership: Scaled and mentored high-performing engineering teams (up to 30+ members across multiple teams). Established process improvements and AI adoption that resulted in 25% increase in engineering velocity. Strategize and stakeholder partnership: Established active, results-oriented partnership with Product, Business and leaders in strategizing future roadmaps, defining long-term technical vision, and ensuring engineering delivery aligns with ambitious business objectives

Experience

Flipkart

5 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Building advertising platforms at scale, handling high traffic with low latencies, building complex capabilities and platforms. Active partnership with stakeholders in strategizing for the future, aligning engineering goals with business objectives.
  • Leading multiple teams for Flipkart Ads serving ecosystem across multiple ad formats
  • Lead cross team collaboration to build and deliver complex scalable user path features
  • Mentored the team for optimizing the performance and scaling the systems to handle 200K+ RPS during Big Billion Days
  • Lead design and architecture for newer capabilities
  • Came up with multi-year roadmap for the team, proposed platformisation to increase reusability and maintainability
  • Established process improvements and AI adoption that resulted in 25% increase in engineering velocity
  • Active brainstorming with product to shape up requirements and product roadmap
Team LeadershipLeadershipAd TechAdvertisingE-CommerceEngineering Management+2

Engineering Manager

Apr 2022Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • leading multiple pods, collaboration with business, brainstorming and collaborating with product to define product roadmap, solving and building capabilities and features to bring in ads revenue

Tech Lead - SDE 4

Promoted

Apr 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Leading a team of 10+ people solving and building ad products for flipkart ecommerce.

SDE 3

Promoted

Jul 2018Apr 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Solving problems in ad and merchandising and designing solution and services for the same. Handled flows related to demand on-boarding, entity modelling, preprocessing the demand using distributed streaming platforms like storm

SDE 2

Feb 2016Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Samsung r&d india bangalore

3 roles

Chief Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2015Jan 2016 · 10 mos

  • 1. Designing IoT solutions for B2B & B2C use cases.
  • 2. Lead IoT Solution Development

Technical Lead

Mar 2014Feb 2015 · 11 mos

  • 1. Contributed in IoT solutions design for B2C Use cases
  • 2. Lead IoT solution development, implemented key framework modules
  • 3. Guided teammates on IoT modules development, reviewing their code and ensuring quality of the code

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2008Feb 2014 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • 1. Worked extensively on JSR82 Bluetooth solution development and commercialization across multiple BT stacks and Mobile Platforms. Designed and developed JSR82 bluetooth solutions over CSR & Qualcomm BT stacks from scratch. Solution involved designing and developing all the layers from Application interface(J2ME) till interacting with BT stacks. Received ‘Perfectionist’ award for my work on JSR82 Bluetooth solution development & stabilization. Successfully stabilized and commercialized JSR82 Bluetooth solutions over Broadcom & Ericsson BT stacks across multiple platforms.
  • 2. Development and commercialization of Android ChatON Messenger
  • 3. Have designed and developed multiple JSRs across multiple platforms. Commercialized Application Management System & J2ME framework across multiple devices.

Hewlett-packard rnd

Intern

Jun 2007Jul 2007 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Did a study in ‘Improving correctness of state-based systems using Referential Transparency’

Education

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

South Point High School

Science

Jan 1988Jan 2004

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