Ankit Saxena

Senior Software Engineer

Terrell, Texas, United States6 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led high-impact projects at DraftKings, enhancing user engagement.
Developed ACA compliance solutions, reducing support cases by 90%.
Created automation frameworks, optimizing testing cycles by 85%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Gaming and Compliance Engineering.

Contact

asankitsaxena007@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentUi DesignAnalyticsWeb DevelopmentDatabase ManagementCompliance EngineeringAutomation EngineeringBackend Development

Other Skills

KotlinJetpack ComposeFirebase Realtime DatabaseNew RelicEvent TrackingAgile MethodologiesAngularTypeScriptSQLGolangSCSSBootstrapAmazon QuickSightPythonDjango

About

Software engineer with 3 years of experience, currently pursuing my graduate studies in Computer Science at Northeastern University, Boston.

Experience

Draftkings inc.

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2026 – Present · 1 mo

Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Casino Native Engineering - Android
Leadership & Ownership: Owned end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects, including:
Jackpot Widget Opt-in & Play → significantly improved jackpot opt-in rates.
Daily Login PPW Widget & Multijackpot integration into Now Games (half-screen) → boosted user retention rates.
Directed technical design, implementation, and testing while mentoring teammates and conducting technical interviews.
Multijackpot Overhaul: Drove a complete redesign of the jackpot feature, contributing on nearly all new UI components in Jetpack Compose and using Redux Architecture, designing and implementing foundational Firebase Realtime Database event logic (state updates, pot changes, wins/losses, and game match/unmatch flows) powering the system. Built robust error handling and delivered a cross-platform Event Tracking Dashboard (iOS & Android) in New Relic, strengthening reliability and analytics.
Quality & Delivery: Consistently recognized as a top sprint performer, resolving critical P1 defects within 1 day and driving rapid stabilization of new features.
Optimized real-time event batching and concurrency handling (Kotlin Coroutines + Flows) to eliminate ANRs, cutting crash rates and generating ~$20K/month in infrastructure cost savings.
Reusable Components: Built shared UI elements (jackpot cells, toast UI, banners/footers among others) using Jetpack Compose adopted across projects, increasing development velocity and design consistency.
Next Gen Lobby UI: Enhanced the lobby with search functionality, “Recently Played,” and “Games” carousels, plus the Personal Promotion Widget (PPW). Delivered reusable game cells and upgraded PPW with new reward/credits cards and carousel layouts.

KotlinJetpack ComposeFirebase Realtime DatabaseNew RelicEvent TrackingAndroid Development+2

Examity

Software engineer Co-op

Jun 2022 – Dec 2022 · 6 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Built a new application with Angular (TypeScript) and SQL and Golang to register our Clients with the Caveon testing platform.
Worked with Rest APIs in Golang to create new web services and to communicate with existing ones.
Created responsive user interfaces using SCSS, PrimeNG and Bootstrap.
Created dashboards to analyze daily and weekly exam proctoring sessions using SQL and Amazon QuickSight.

AngularTypeScriptSQLGolangSCSSBootstrap+3

Zenefits

Software Engineer

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Lead engineer for the ACA(Affordable Care Act or Obama Care) compliance application, used Python, Django and JavaScript.
Built feature for Rehired employees in ACA which included tracking hours, insurance coverage and generating 1095C
forms for rehired employees thus cutting down support cases for these employees by 90%.
Proposed, planned and prototyped ACA filing automation via A2A channel with SOAP APIs to reduce time and effort required for manual filing.
Presented an upgrade to the product dubbed ACA V2 by introducing multiyear status tracking for employees.
Added the ability to generate Validation reports in EDI with renewal files by integrating data from multiple sources in
the Zenefits system, resulting in a 50% reduction in manual work.

PythonDjangoJavaScriptSOAP APIsEDIData Integration+2

Lemnisk

Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Designed and Developed Automation frameworks using Java, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Jenkins to break and test complex back-end systems of a Marketing Automation System.
Created RESTful Web Services with Java, Spring Boot as part of the automation framework to reduce reliance on vendor APIs for testing.
Worked on a report generation tool to generate detailed success/failure reports for each system being tested.
Optimized regression testing cycle time in the company by up to 85% using automation.

JavaKafkaRedisMySQLJenkinsSpring Boot+2