Ankur Sial

Director of Engineering

Delhi, India11 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team of 45+ engineers at Urban Company.
Achieved 43% increase in booking volume.
Designed a Translation Framework for Fortune 500 clients.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in scalable systems and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipEngineering LeadershipMicroservices

Other Skills

LeadershipEnvisioningCommunicationOverseeing ProjectsMongoDBTeam LeadershipSoftware Development MethodologiesSystem ArchitectureSprint PlanningNode.jsJavaAlgorithmsMicrosoft OfficePythonC++

About

Strategic and hands-on Senior Engineering Manager with 10+ years of experience leading high-performance backend and platform teams to build scalable, distributed systems, owning reliability, performance, and maintainability in mission-critical platforms. At Urban Company, scaled and coached 45+ engineers to deliver IPO-critical platforms, driving a 43% increase in booking volume. At Adobe, designed a Translation Framework adopted by Fortune 500 clients, reducing multilingual delivery effort by 60%. Known for defining technical vision, shaping long-term architecture, influencing cross-functional strategy, and fostering inclusive, high-performing teams while aligning engineering execution with business and product objectives at scale.

Experience

11 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Urban company

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

◦ Spearheaded the Customer Journey, Order Management, and Service Subscription verticals, leading a 16-member team and coordinating across 5 EMs and 45+ engineers to deliver scalable, cloud-native, distributed SaaS platforms powering high-quality customer experiences.
◦ Led architecture and delivery of UC’s IPO-critical Business Platform, unifying 6+ legacy systems into a modular, async-first cloud architecture driving 43% increase in bookings, enabling revenue growth.
◦ Defined multi-year technical vision and platform roadmap, translating strategy into OKRs, strengthening alignment with business priorities, and improving roadmap delivery accuracy by 20% quarter-on-quarter.
◦ Shaped engineering standards and best practices adopted across multiple teams, influencing platform strategy, scalability, and reliability at an organizational level.
◦ Drove hiring, mentorship, and team growth, onboarding senior engineers and promoting 3 team leads
internally, fostering a high-performance engineering culture and accelerating delivery velocity.

LeadershipEnvisioningTechnical LeadershipCommunicationOverseeing ProjectsMongoDB+4

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

SDE3

May 2021 – Dec 2021 · 7 mos

Adobe

3 roles

Computer Scientist

Promoted

Feb 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Worked on Adobe Experience Manager and responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining Translation Platform and Workflows for the same.

Microservices

Senior Member of the Technical Staff

Feb 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Emc

Summer Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Banglore

Designed and developed an end to end Comprehensive Primary Healthcare Management System.
Developed an OpenMRS based hospital platform for managing daily tasks including OPD, patient registration, labtests etc. and generating reports.

Indraprastha institute of information technology, delhi

Student Instructor

Dec 2013 – Dec 2013 · 0 mo · Greater Delhi Area

Co-Instructed Introduction to C module offered during winter 2013.
Worked on creating and conducting lab sessions, video lectures in addition to design, delivery and conduct of the course conducted during summer.

Hisp india info systems private limited

Intern

Aug 2013 – Jan 2014 · 5 mos

Developed Operation Theatre OpenMRS Module for HISP India.

Indraprastha institute of information technology, delhi

2 roles

Student Intern

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos

Did an internship in training in OpenMRS module development.

Summer course instructor, Introduction to C

May 2013 – Jun 2013 · 1 mo

Co-Teaching Refresher C Summer Course to batch of 60 students.
In-charge for the conduct of the course from start to the end.
Planned week-wise content delivery. Designed, and evaluated assignments, quizzes, and exam.