Ankur Patankar

CEO

Dubai, United Arab Emirates15 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

15+ years of engineering leadership experience.
Expert in scaling teams and delivering impactful products.
Innovative AI product founder with proven results.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering leader in E-commerce and Automotive sectors, specializing in scalable product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementMicroservicesFrontend DevelopmentBackend Development

Other Skills

Node.jsReactNext.jsGolangCI/CDAutomated TestingPerformance MonitoringAI-driven Developer Productivity ToolsFrontend Best PracticesReact.jsElasticSearchChatbot DevelopmentRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AI

About

I’m Ankur - an engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling high-impact products for millions of users. I’ve led distributed teams of 10+ engineers, overseen complex system overhauls, and shipped mission-critical features for companies like Landmark, Nykaa, and CarDekho. My focus: clarity, speed, and delivering measurable business impact without sacrificing quality. Beyond corporate leadership, I’ve founded and built innovative AI products like Baloon.dev - enabling product teams to ship faster using LLM-driven code automation. This mix of enterprise leadership and startup innovation lets me bridge long-term strategy with hands-on execution. Specialties: Engineering leadership, scaling teams, product innovation, AI/LLM integration, n8n workflows, system architecture, delivery, remote team management, building MVPs in record time.

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Time doctor

Engineering Team Lead

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

Landmark group

Engineering Manager

May 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Led transition from Magento monolith to microservices during Styli’s early stage, managing a 10-member cross-functional team while remaining 60% hands-on (Node.js, React, Next.js, Golang).
Delivered key projects including Product Search & Curation Tool, StoreFront, Referral System, and Catalog Management, improving discovery, performance, and product onboarding speed.
Improved delivery speed and stability through CI/CD, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
Piloted AI-driven developer productivity tools, boosting engineering throughput by 20%+.

Node.jsReactNext.jsGolangCI/CDAutomated Testing+4

Tajawal

Engineering Manager

Jul 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Led the design and delivery of multiple high-traffic frontend projects for Tajawal and Altayyar using React, Next.js, and Node.js.
Managed a team of 5 engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and mentoring to improve delivery speed and code quality.
Architected an in-house content management platform, enabling the marketing and product teams to launch campaigns faster and with fewer engineering dependencies.
Collaborated cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and backend teams to ensure alignment on priorities, timelines, and user experience goals.
Drove adoption of modern frontend best practices, resulting in improved maintainability and performance across core customer-facing applications.

ReactNext.jsNode.jsFrontend Best PracticesFrontend DevelopmentEngineering Management

Nykaa.com

Engineering Manager

Jun 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Leading and managing backend team. Led a team of 4 people and moved the cart section from monolithic Magento to Microservice in NodeJs. Revamped the Frontend - Mobile and Web pages in ReactJs and Node.

Node.jsReact.jsBackend DevelopmentEngineering Management

Cardekho

Technical Architect

May 2013 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

Designed and developed search Apis for Cardekho.com, Gaadi.com, Zigwheels.com and Oto.com using ElasticSearch. These APIs serve appx. million users daily.

ElasticSearchBackend Development