Pankaj Bhatia

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 11 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in technology leadership.
  • Expert in AI, machine learning, and data analytics.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology executive specializing in E-commerce and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Technology ManagementCross-functional Team Leadership

Other Skills

Agile Project ManagementAlgorithmsAngularJSArchitectureArchitecturesCore JavaDecision-MakingDesign PatternsHadoopJavaMachine LearningMapReduceNLPOOPProgram Management

About

Results-driven technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and developing innovative, scalable solutions for fast-growing businesses. Proven expertise in aligning technology roadmaps with business goals, fostering collaboration between engineering and product teams, and leveraging cutting-edge advancements in AI, machine learning, and data analytics. Adept at building high-performing teams, driving organizational change, and delivering reliable, cost-effective systems. Passionate about mentoring leaders and advising early-stage startups and mid-sized companies to navigate complex challenges and achieve sustainable growth. Skilled in balancing strategic vision with hands-on execution in rapidly evolving industries.

Experience

Eudia

Head of Engineering, India.

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Confetti consulting

Technology & Strategy Consulting

Apr 2024Jan 2025 · 9 mos · Remote · Hybrid

  • In April, I transitioned from full-time employment to a career break, prioritizing my family's well-being. Since then, I've gradually taken on consulting assignments, serving as a technology advisor for mid-sized companies. In this capacity, I provide comprehensive technology guidance, helping these organizations streamline their organizational design, technology infrastructure, engineering processes, and product strategy.

Amazon

Director of Engineering, Amazon Advertising (Ad Trust, Moderation, Applied Science & GenAI)

Aug 2022Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • In the dynamic realm of advertising, my role as an engineering leader is both challenging and exhilarating. I lead advertising moderation, to scrutinise millions of diverse ads by merging engineering expertise with applied science. My responsibilities include crafting effective moderation strategies aligned with intricate global Ad Policies, utilizing cost-effective ML models, and overseeing highly scalable engineering infrastructure. With recent AIGen advancements, I play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of Language Model Moderation (LLM) within our advertising framework.
Decision-MakingCross-functional Team LeadershipTechnology ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Flipkart

5 roles

Sr Director & Head of Engineering - Alternate Commerce

Nov 2021Aug 2022 · 9 mos

  • Leading Multiple Initiatives in Alternate Commerce domain
  • Shopsy [ Reseller Commerce ]
  • Partner Platforms [ Influencer & Affiliate Platform for Social/Video commerce ]
  • Re-Commerce [Sell back, Exchange, Liquidation ]
  • Social Commerce [ Group Buying, Community Buying]
  • Stitching all these commerce philosophies with common platforms like Incentivisation, Targeted discounts, Personalisation, Partner Ecosystem.
Decision-MakingCross-functional Team LeadershipTechnology Management

Sr. Director of Engineering, Flipkart Wholesale

Sep 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Responsible for Complete Demand, Discovery and Shopping experience Engineering at Flipkart Wholesale Business.
  • Build this team and many platforms ground up in a record time of 6 months. Post MVP launch, We built many new functionalities around User Engagement, Organic/Inorganic growth platforms (Search, Reco, Merchandise etc)
  • Also got opportunity to Lead and Mentor Senior Engineering leaders of whole FKW Engineering.
Decision-MakingCross-functional Team LeadershipTechnology Management

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2018Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Head of Customer experience Engineering. Responsible for developing resilient in-house CRM ecosystem to serve millions of customers. These platforms are capable of sustaining Flipkart’s festive season traffic for many years.
  • + Launched Flipkart’s First Chat/Email & Voice Bots and Interactive help centre.
  • + Build a versatile workflow orchestrator and work management platform
  • + Many innovative capabilities like proactive issue management, Customer intent predictions
  • + Onboarded other Flipkart Groups on this Platform
  • Responsible for scaling and Manage the org to deliver long term vision. Proudly led a highly efficient and motivated fun team.
Cross-functional Team LeadershipTechnology Management

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Leading a couple of Initiatives to Improve Customer Experience.
  • Responsible for
  • Core CRM, Highly scalable & Intelligent tools for Customer Interaction.
  • Analysis of Customer-Agent behaviour using Machine Learning/NLP and other custom in-house tools.
Technology Management

Engineering Manager

Mar 2015Dec 2015 · 9 mos

  • Building some cool, intelligent, state-of-the-art Platforms with awesome people in Flipkart.
  • #NLP #ML #Scale #Performance #Social #CustomerExperience.
Technology Management

Vmware

Manager R&D

Nov 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Build extensible Cloud Automation provisioning and continuous integration framework, that helps developers to automate their dev -> test -> deploy cycles for large set of existing CI tools.
Technology Management

Clickable

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Jun 2012Jul 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • [Acquired by Syncapse]
  • Ownership of Social Applications & Analytics platform
  • Social Apps & intelligence platform is a center stage solution for hosting social campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube and process data for insights, analysis and recommendations. The platform serves competitive insights, consumer lifecycle patterns and help brands in aligning their marketing strategies.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Design and prototyping of multi-tier application & analytics framework
  • Modeling of multi-dimensional data and development of aggregation map-reduce jobs
  • Ensure timely & high quality technical Deliverables
  • Enabling and Mentoring team to be highly successful
Technology Management

Tech Lead, Ads Data Platform

Aug 2010May 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Design and Development of dependable, Efficient, Scalable ad network data platform. End to End ownership of Network Data layer, Real time data processing, mining and reporting.
  • Expertise :
  • Hadoop Ecosystem
  • Data Transformation
  • NoSQL
  • Technical Leadership
Technology Management

Microsoft coporation

Software Design Engineer

Aug 2006Aug 2010 · 4 yrs

  • 1) IE Plug-in to analyze history patterns and share Urls - A secure IE plug-in that trace user’s browsing and visualize the patterns on start page
  • Analyzing patterns, prioritizing URLs based on various matrices (time spent, hit rate)
  • History Search on Entity and Tag extraction basis
  • 2) Web service engine to process XML based service metrics (SLANG). It is used for monitoring, auditing and logging the service performance.
  • 3) Research prototype for SLA based capacity planning for data centers
  • Analysis of work done in the field of capacity planning and scope for improvement
  • Integrating SLA framework monitoring and proactive analysis capabilities
  • 4) Participation in European Union Scientific Research Projects (on behalf of Microsoft)
  • 5) Contributed to Event Flow Debugger for Microsoft’s CEP Engine StreamInsight™
  • Writing high throughput query interpretation & visualisation tools
  • Owner of code quality and testing methodologies in the team

Inria / irisa rennes

Research Intern [Thesis]

Jan 2006Jun 2006 · 5 mos · Rennes, Brittany, France

  • Received grant for research work on "Generation of Domain Specific Graphical Modeling Editors" under guidance of Prof Pierre-Alain. The topic was specialized area under Model Driven Engineering.

Ace associated compiler experts bv. , amsterdam

Research Intern

Aug 2005Nov 2005 · 3 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

  • Worked on Compiler optimization techniques for CoSy compiler.

Quark

Software Engineer

Jan 2002Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

  • Design and Implementation of
  • DOM support for QuarkXPress™
  • XPath Interface APIs
  • Implementing of XSL based automated documentation generator for XPress Schema

Education

RWTH Aachen University

Master's Degree

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Kurukshetra University

B.Tech (Hons.) — Computer Science

Jan 1997Jan 2001

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