Ankit Mahajan

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable advertising technology platforms.
  • Proven leadership in mentoring engineers and driving technical strategy.
  • Strong background in cloud-native architecture and data-driven solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech expert with a strong focus on cloud-native systems and data-driven advertising solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ad Tech PlatformsCloud-native PlatformsData Ingestion PipelinesApisApi-driven Solutions

Other Skills

ArchitectureData & StreamingProgrammingCloud & DevOpsLeadershipEmerging TechAudience ingestionCookie syncMetadata platformsETLIngestion pipelinesCross-platform usabilitySprint velocity improvementKafkaTypeScript

About

I’m a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce working on digital marketing technologies. My experience includes building and evolving advertising and marketing technology platforms, designing distributed services, and developing data-driven capabilities that support campaign management, advertiser integrations, and targeting systems. I’m particularly interested in platform architecture, cloud-native systems, and data pipelines, as well as applying AI/GenAI to improve how marketing platforms operate and scale. I enjoy solving complex engineering problems, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful products, and mentoring engineers as they grow into strong technical leaders. ⸻ Skills & Expertise Ad Tech Platforms: Campaign management, booking & activation, advertiser integrations, targeting & metadata systems Architecture: Cloud-native platforms, microservices, event-driven systems, data ingestion pipelines, observability Data & Streaming: Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, Aurora/Postgres, SQL Server, Hive Programming: Kotlin, Java, TypeScript/Node.js, Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, API Gateway Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines Leadership: Technical strategy, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring engineers, engineering best practices Emerging Tech: GenAI, AI/ML applications in marketing and advertising platforms

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Salesforce

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Ad Tech PlatformsArchitectureData & StreamingProgrammingCloud & DevOpsLeadership+2

Cardlytics

2 roles

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2025Feb 2026 · 10 mos

Principal Software Engineer

Mar 2022Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Yahoo

3 roles

Principal Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2021Mar 2022 · 8 mos

  • Technical Lead for Yahoo Ads DMP and Targeting Ingestion Systems, delivering scalable audience ingestion, cookie sync, and metadata platforms powering Yahoo DSP, Native, and Supply Ads. Built and optimized large-scale ingestion pipelines powering precision ad targeting for thousands of advertisers and billions of daily events. Owned APIs and ETL for audience, pixel, and location metadata with 99.9%+ availability and sub-second latency, while streamlining deployments to cut release cycles by ~30% and strengthen platform resiliency.
Audience ingestionCookie syncMetadata platformsAPIsETLIngestion pipelines+1

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2019Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Software Development Engineer

Oct 2016Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Accenture

4 roles

Lead Developer / Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2014Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Delivered the next-gen CSOS platform, replacing a legacy Applet-based system with a modern, API-driven solution adopted by thousands of pharmacy users. Integrated Axway APIs and federated SSO for seamless partner access, enabled cross-platform usability, and improved sprint velocity by ~20% while reducing defects by ~15%.
API-driven solutionsCross-platform usabilitySprint velocity improvement

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2013Jan 2014 · 10 mos

Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2010Sep 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

Education

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Information Technology

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