ankit bansal

CTO

Dubai, United Arab Emirates20 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expert in building scalable microservices and N-tier systems.
Proven track record of increasing revenue in Adtech.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Adtech Engineering Leader with extensive experience in scalable systems.

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About

A result-oriented Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience in building large scale systems.Exposure to building microservices and service-oriented architecture. Proficient in architecting highly scalable real-time N-tier systems, Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, Infrastructure alerting & Monitoring. Led large global teams across multiple geographies. Worked across multiple domains like food tech , gaming, hospitality, e-commerce, job portals, etc.

Experience

Wio bank

2 roles

Deputy CTO

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Head of Engineering

Jan 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Leading a team of 120 Engineers spread across Europe , UAE , India .
10 direct reports .
Looking after the below products for WIO Bank :
1. Lending
2. Core Banking .
3. Accounts / Cards
4. Frontend Applications .
5. Stock Investment /Wealth Management
6. Customer Engagement .
7. Onboarding .

Zomato

VP Engineering (Adtech)

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs

Leading the Advertisement vertical in Zomato (ADtech) . Increased revenue increased 3-4x in last 1 year . Working with CXO’s so as to ensure Advertisement revenue becomes a key driver in Zomato’s road to profitability .
Helped big Restaurant Chains increase there market share by building various advertisement products like :
User cohorts targeting . Improving share in lean hours . Competition targeting .
Improved CTR’s for ad slots .

Playstation

Asst. Director of Engineering

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

Oyo

2 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

Responsible for the B2B segment of OYO (travel agent portal , corporate
bookings , reward platforms) .
Work with Business leader to create Tech & Product Roadmap .
Scaled the product to the 20+ geographies .
Build a sophisticated auditing platform for auditing any kind of Real estate
Operations .
Reduced the organisation’s reliance on ground teams by automation and
system improvements .
Successfully executed complex international product integrations (Saudi Govt.)
in a very limited timeframe .

Myntra jabong

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, India

Principal Engineer

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, India

Worked on Big Billion Day(a massive online sales event) . Scaled the inventory
system to 2-2.5 million RPM .
Improved user experience by removing delays in discounting system , so as to
have consistent experience during high traffic of Big Billion Days
Worked on various backend ares or ecommerce like :Cart & Item shortlisting ,
Exchange / Return /Cancellation ,Logistics Integrations & flow , Inventory
Management System . (avoided overselling )
Improved conversion by 2% through Personalisation on Search .
Created a tenant model for running the different tech stacks of Jabong /Myntra
through one .

Monster

Engineering Manager

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 · 4 yrs · Noida Area, India

My role in Monster is a mix of individual coding + team management( 5 team members) .
I am looking after the whole of seeker section in Monster India , SG , MY , GULF , PH , HK etc .
My Job here involves :
1. Code reviews
2. Roll out of new products.
3. implementation of newer technologies to help reduce load .
4. Improve SEO on pages
5. Various types of Branding on site . (text and images)
6. Improve revenue through Google Ads .
My Prime motto : "The fun is when you use the current architecture and infrastructure to run Double the traffic what you can handle right now ".