Ankur Pratik

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Gurgaon, Haryana, India13 yrs 8 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams through successful IPO journey.
  • Established enterprise-grade security compliance at RDash.
  • Built AI-native SaaS solutions for construction industry.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in AI-driven solutions and enterprise security.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai Software DevelopmentEngineering LeadershipData ManagementWeb Services SecurityArtificial IntelligenceEngineering ManagementBackend DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

PythonLangGraphAI RoutersMCPPostgreSQLAzureOpenAI APIsDjangoData VisualizationPerformance MetricsISO 27001SOC 2Information SecurityAI AgentsModel Context Protocol

About

Working on becoming a global thought leader, who delivers transfromational value in the area of organizational leadership, high performance and personal reinventions. Engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling SaaS platforms, from Samsung's flagship Android devices to Unicommerce's journey to IPO, and now RDash, an AI-native construction SAAS backed by Y Combinator (W22). At RDash, I lead Engineering and serve as Acting CISO, owning the full technology stack (Django, FastAPI, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Qdrant, LangGraph) alongside our enterprise security posture (ISO 27001:2022 certified, SOC 2 in progress, CERT-In aligned). My focus is shipping production-grade agentic systems that turn construction project data into operational intelligence for India's largest builders and infrastructure firms. Previously at Unicommerce, I grew from Senior Engineer to Director of Engineering over 7+ years, leading 45–50 engineers across OMS, WMS, App, UniReco, and Turbo through the company's path to public listing. Before that, I built last-mile logistics infrastructure at Snapdeal and shipped features on Samsung's Galaxy Note and Tab series in collaboration with Samsung HQ in South Korea. I write occasionally about engineering, AI, and product on Medium. Always happy to talk to founders, engineering leaders, and anyone working on agentic systems in B2B SaaS.

Experience

13 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Rdash

Vice President of Engineering

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram · On-site

  • Tech Stack: Python, LangGraph, AI Routers, MCP, PostgreSQL, Azure, OpenAI APIs, Pinecone, Django
  • Established comprehensive internal dashboards enabling data-driven decision-making across engineering operations with real-time visibility into key performance metrics
  • Spearheaded enterprise-grade security posture leading information security stream toward VAPT compliance, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification, positioning RDash as enterprise-ready platform
  • Designed and implemented reusable engineering frameworks reducing development cycles by 40% while maintaining architectural consistency and code quality
  • Built AI-led engineering capabilities by creating sophisticated multi-agent systems for clients using LangGraph, AI routers, and Model Context Protocol (MCP), establishing competitive differentiation
  • Executed high-impact initiatives including systematic onboarding time reduction (50% improvement) and established predictable release cycles with 95% on-time delivery
  • Positioned engineering organization at forefront of AI/ML capabilities with production-grade agentic systems delivering tangible client value
PythonLangGraphAI RoutersMCPPostgreSQLAzure+4

Unicommerce

5 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr

  • Headed engineering for OMS, WMS, App, UniReco, and Turbo product lines, 45–50 engineers across backend, frontend, QA, and Android. Owned quarterly planning and business alignment, scrum operations, roadmap prioritization, and engineering cost control. Drove the platform's technical readiness through Unicommerce's path to public listing on NSE/BSE in 2024.
Engineering Management

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Led the Order Management (OMS) and Warehouse Management (WMS) engineering teams through a phase of rapid scale and rising enterprise expectations. Conceived and incubated UniReco — Unicommerce's reconciliation product — alongside multiple new platform capabilities that expanded the company's product surface area.
  • What I owned:
  • Reliability & operational excellence: Established proactive alerting and incident-response processes across OMS and WMS, with quarterly SLAs governing defect resolution, time-to-detect, time-to-recover, and P0 RCA turnaround. Set the engineering rhythm that brought predictability to on-call and outage management.
  • Performance & availability: Held latency and availability baselines (sub-100ms p50, 99.9% availability) while introducing a stricter availability definition and modernized tracking. Drove API latency and failure-rate improvements through targeted optimization cycles.
  • Planning & delivery discipline: Built a quarterly planning cadence with measurable estimate-vs-actual deviation targets, progressively tightening from quarter to quarter. Ensured 90%+ hard-commitment delivery on business-critical milestones, including new product launches.
  • Cost ownership: Owned annual people and infrastructure cost targets with quarterly tracking — driving cost-aware architecture and capacity decisions across the platform.
  • Compliance & data privacy: Led the engineering implementation of India's DPDP Act across OMS and WMS — gating PII access behind admin permissions, enforcing encryption at rest, and masking sensitive data across APIs and web integrations.
  • Platform hygiene: Drove a sustained "hygiene" workstream addressing latency hotspots, lock contention, and observability gaps — including a Kibana setup that materially improved debuggability for the engineering team.
Engineering Management

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Created and ramped up the Order Management (OMS) team from the ground up, scaling it to meet rising customer demand and enterprise SLAs. Owned several ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives — including the reduction of unfulfillable orders and real-time inventory sync — that required deep collaboration with product, operations, and customer teams.
  • Beyond people and delivery, stayed close to the system: introduced Kibana-based observability to surface performance bottlenecks and launched a dedicated stream focused on improving overall system efficiency.
Engineering Management

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2018Mar 2021 · 3 yrs

  • Backend lead on platform-wide initiatives:
  • MySQL data archival: Architected and executed the archival strategy for high-volume historical data, reclaiming significant database headroom and improving query performance on hot tables.
  • Cost-optimized observability stack: Built an observability layer that enabled dynamic server provisioning based on real-time API QPS — reducing CPU usage by ~50% and meaningfully cutting infrastructure cost.
  • Performance optimization: Drove targeted code-level improvements that reduced memory footprint and CPU utilization across hot paths in the OMS.
Backend Development

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2017Mar 2018 · 6 mos

  • Joined Unicommerce — India's largest multi-channel SaaS order fulfillment and inventory management platform — early in its scaling journey, working directly with the founders to ramp the team and harden the product.
  • Built foundational components of the Unicommerce platform from scratch, including the core web application, Warehouse application, and Logistics platform.
Software Development

Snapdeal

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2016Sep 2017 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

  • Joined Snapdeal as part of the Unicommerce acquisition and was embedded into a new internal startup — OLP (Open Logistics Platform) — built from scratch to solve last-mile delivery at scale.
  • OLP managed the full lifecycle of a consignment: from first arrival at a warehouse, through multi-hub transit between warehouses, to final assignment to the warehouse nearest the customer — and ultimately to a rider for doorstep delivery. The platform handled real-time rider location tracking and telemetry, runtime pickup assignment to riders based on live signals, and in-app COD payment collection directly on the rider's phone at the point of delivery.
  • Built on a microservices architecture, the system was designed to scale horizontally across geographies and consignment volume. I worked full-stack across the platform — API design and integration, multi-language (RTL) support, analytics instrumentation, and the observability stack that kept the operations team in the loop on rider, hub, and consignment health in real time.
Software Development

Unicommerce

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2015Oct 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

  • Unicommerce is India’s largest online multi-channel SaaS Order Fulfillment/Inventory Management Platform, which enables E-commerce merchants of all sizes to sell more.
  • I worked with the co-founders to ramp up the team, making the product more & more configurable, building monitoring infrastructure & meeting the scaling challenges.
  • As an experienced technical team member, I worked from scratch on the Unicommerce application, Warehouse application, and Logistic platform for delivery.
  • Code designing of android application, with integration of maps, google printing, scanning, gcm/fcm, gps, bluetooth adapters, mqtt, otto, sqlite, dagger, logger etc in android projects.
Software Development

Samsung electronics

Software Engineer

Jun 2012Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Android developer on Samsung's flagship mobile portfolio — Galaxy Note series, S3/S4/S5, Tab2/Tab3, and several mid-range and entry-level devices. Collaborated directly with Samsung HQ in South Korea on the SPlanner application for the Note 4 and Tab 2/3.
  • Selected work:
  • End-to-end implementation of the RTL (right-to-left) feature in Samsung's native applications for the MEA region.
  • Facebook contact sync, calendar invitations via mail, and alerts.
  • Application launch-time optimization and multi-resolution UI design.
  • Module ownership in SPlanner; sub-PL on the S4 project upgrade; mentor to incoming engineers.
Software Development

Education

National Institute of Technology Durgapur

Bachelor's degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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