Ankita Sharma

Director of Engineering

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands13 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

14 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expertise in building customer-centric products.
Proven track record in managing large-scale operations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Fintech and Data-driven product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic LeadershipArchitectural DesignProject ManagementStakeholder Management

Other Skills

Active LearningAdobe BridgeAfter EffectsAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceCC#C++CSSChange ManagementCommercial AwrenessData StructuresFuzzy LogicHTMLHTML 5

About

Authentic and inclusive leader with over 14 years of industry experience in building customer-centric, innovative and resilient products and platforms, with a proven track record of leading successful engineering organisations. Domain experience in several industries like Data, FinTech, payments, e-commerce, travel, text analytics & processing, machine learning, metadata and video post-production workflows.

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Booking.com

4 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Leading the Application & Data Services organisation in the Data & Machine Learning Platform group.
Responsible for all the operational data stores and streaming services at Booking, both on-premise and on public cloud.

Change ManagementStrategic LeadershipStakeholder ManagementArchitectural DesignProject Management

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2019 – Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Worked as a Senior Engineering Manager in FinTech Business Unit at Booking.
Led a cross functional organisation for Partner Payments Product, which is responsible for accurate and timely payouts to over a million partners, as well as their overall experience with our payments product offerings (ex bank transfers, virtual credit cards, stripe etc). We manage a massive scale of operations with billions of euros flowing through our infrastructure on a regular basis.
Prior to this, I led the Finance track which was responsible for developing a scalable and resilient platform for facilitating billing and invoicing for Booking and also building operational tooling for our internal finance teams like Credit Control.

Commercial AwrenessStakeholder ManagementArchitectural DesignChange ManagementProject ManagementOrganizational Design+1

Engineering Manager

Feb 2017 – Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Worked in Payments as a Service Business Unit at Booking as an Engineering Manager across domains and teams. My teams were focussed on building a scalable, resilient and compliant platform for facilitating payments and reporting at Booking. I was responsible for leading the teams working on payout flows to the partner - Payout service team (orchestrator/brain for payouts + bank transfer logic) and VCC (Virtual credit cards) service team.

Software Developer

Sep 2016 – Feb 2017 · 5 mos

Flipkart

Senior Software Development Engineer

Oct 2015 – Aug 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Part of the FSE (Fulfilment Service Eco-System) team at Flipkart

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Dec 2014 – Oct 2015 · 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Search Tenchnology Centre India (Bing)
Part of the Email Extractions and Incubations Team.
The focus of EMail Extractions is to develop intelligent systems to parse user emails and automatically extract relevant information from them that can be used by agents like Cortana to provide rich proactive experiences.
Incubations is focused at innovating and prototyping new product ideas that support the company's vision and mission. This involves the complete cycle of design and development right from brainstorming to first cut delivery.
MSN and ICE (Information and Content Experiences)
Developer in the ICE team at Microsoft which is responsible for delivering MSN and Bing Apps across platforms.
Key contributor to the engineering of the MSN Health and Fitness App and MSN Sports App across various flavors like iOS, Android and Windows devices.

Adobe

Software Engineer

Jun 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Noida Area, India

Key contributor to the Adobe XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) Team under the Media Intelligence initiative, which is responsible for handling all metadata workflows for assets across Adobe products by providing C++ based core APIs.
Part of the DVA (Digital Video and Audio) Group responsible for managing features for creative workflows in the Adobe Products like Prelude, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Story, Media Encoder, Audition and others, that serve as the Industry Standards for Video Post-Production Workflows
Actively involved in the design and development of frameworks, libraries or specification documents that are responsible for standardizing the usage, storage and definition of metadata across a variety of workflows (both within and outside Adobe products).
Key contributor to the free public SDK for XMP Toolkit and Metadata UI technology (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp.html)

National informatics centre

Intern

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos

Studied VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal), a technology used by Bharti Airtel Group in India at NIC (National Informatics Centre)

Defence research and development organisation

Intern

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos

Pursued 6 weeks summer training at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in the ISSA Lab (Institute for System Studies and Analyses) during June 2010-July 2010.
As a part of my project at DRDO, I studied the various efficient Garbage Collection Algorithms and performed basic Disk Cleanup Activity for a UNIX/LINUX system.