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Ankush Sharma

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in IT and product organizations.
  • Expertise in backend architecture and distributed systems.
  • Proven track record in leading high-performing engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong backend architecture and leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend ArchitectureDistributed SystemsE-commerce SolutionsFull Stack DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentWeb Services

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAmazon S3Amazon SQSApache KafkaBack-End Web DevelopmentBackbone.jsBusiness AcumenBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCSSCloud DeploymentCommunication

About

With a strong foundation in Computer Science and a passion for solving complex problems, I have dedicated my career to building scalable, high-impact software solutions. My academic journey, coupled with my keen interest in technology and leadership, has shaped my ability to drive innovation, optimize processes, and deliver results. Over the years, I have been recognized for my contributions to software architecture, team development, and operational excellence. I have over a decade of experience in the IT industry and product organizations with 6+ years in leadership roles. As an Engineering Manager, I have successfully led high-performing teams, driving end-to-end software development in FinTech and e-commerce domains. My expertise spans backend architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering, with a strong focus on payments, BNPL, and banking solutions. I take pride in fostering a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence, ensuring alignment between engineering execution and business strategy. Looking ahead, I am eager to take on strategic leadership roles that allow me to shape technology roadmaps, drive large-scale system optimizations, and mentor future tech leaders. I am particularly interested in building resilient, scalable financial products that enhance customer experiences. My goal is to contribute to organizations where I can lead engineering efforts that create long-term business impact while nurturing a culture of innovation and growth.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Toast

Engineering Manager II

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Restaurant tech | B2B SaaS | POS, Membership & Payments

Deliveroo

Engineering Manager

Aug 2023Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · India · Remote

  • Fintech Platform | High-Scale Payments | Global Reach

Paypal

Engineering Lead

Sep 2021Aug 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · India · Remote

  • BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) | Multi-tenant SaaS | Regulated Fintech
  • Led a team of 11 members in the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions in the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) fintech domain for various countries.
  • Spearheaded Scrum activities including planning, story breakdown, assignments to the team, and retrospectives.
  • Led the planning, execution, and successful delivery of features, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.
  • Drove the adoption of best practices and new technologies, including the transition to microservices architecture and cloud deployment.
  • Worked directly with key business stakeholders and cross functional team, including product management, QA, and operations to define the scope and implementation of features and ensure seamless delivery of projects and services.
  • Mentored developers, providing guidance and technical direction, and promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement to the remotely and geographically distributed team.
  • Led code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, and conducting performance evaluations for team members.
  • Performed POC to improve tech-driven architecture
JavaSpring BootMicroservicesCloud DeploymentAgile MethodologiesBackend Architecture+1

Solv (standard chartered research & technology)

Founding Lead Engineer

Sep 2019Aug 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

  • B2B E-commerce | BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) Lending | Fintech Platform
  • We at Solv are building one of India’s largest B2B SME platforms. This is one place where SMEs can find everything they are looking for in order to build and grow their business - from customers, suppliers and peers through to financial and business services.
  • Worked as a Team Lead/Architect specialised in Java for B2B E commerce , Buy Now Pay later, Payments and Business Loans Domain.
  • A go getter, developing product from scratch and part of the journey of SOLV from 0 to a world class product.
  • Roles And Responsibilities:-
  • Leading and handling different products.
  • Demonstrating knowledge of company's mission, purpose, goals, and the ability to help team members successfully achieve them.
  • Participating in the full SDLC lifecycle from planning, analysis, design, implementation to maintenance.
  • Developing product from scratch from getting requirements from user and product owner to design the product, database and delivering it to end user.
  • Took full ownership of the product, be it developing, giving KT to peers, resolving PSRs.
  • Developing microservices using Java, Spring boot, Spring data and Spring Reactive.
  • Used Event-Driven Architecture for Asynchronous communication between different services
  • using Apache Kakfa.
  • Producing Restful web services to be used internally.
  • Consuming Restful web services of third parties.
  • Interaction with the third parties for design and issues of the services.
  • Writing JUnit for component testing.
  • Working on DynamoDB, MongoDB and PostgresSQL databases.
  • Working on Amazon Web Services as cloud computing platform.
  • Working in Agile methodology.
  • Introducing prometheus, grafana, sleuth, zipkin and signoz for logs enhancement and error monitoring.
  • Skills : Java, Spring Boot, Spring data, Spring Reactive, Kafka, Amazon SQS, PostgresSql, MongoDB, DynamoDB.
JavaSpring BootMicroservicesKafkaAWSBackend Architecture+1

Fidelity international

Full Stack Senior Java Developer

Jul 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Worked in Fidelity International as a Analyst Programmer with the role of Full Stack Java Developer.
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Developing a customer care product for simplifying the day to day task of employees.
  • Participating in the full SDLC lifecycle from Planning, Getting the requirements from BA, Analysis, Design, Implementation to Maintenance.
  • Producing and consuming SOAP/Restful web services using Java, Spring boot.
  • Writing units tests using Junit and performing component integration testing.
  • Development of front end pages using backbone js.
  • Took complete ownership of the product, be it developing, resolving issues, helping peers.
  • Working on Agile Methodology.
  • Skills : Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, Backbone js, Junit, JavaScript, Kafka, ECache.
JavaSpring BootHibernateBackbone.jsAgile MethodologiesFull Stack Development+1

Tata consultancy services

Java Developer

Jun 2015Jun 2017 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • I worked at Tata Consultancy Services as a Java Developer for one of the leading bank of UK .
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Development of SOAP/REST web services using advance Java, Spring, Hibernate, CXF Framework.
  • JMS Message Queue (MQ) implementation
  • Using Java Persistence API for accessing, persisting and managing data between Java objects
  • and a relational database.
  • Writing BDD stories/scenarios for automated testing using JBehave framework.
  • Writing unit tests using JUnit and performing component integration testing.
  • Working on Agile Methodology.
JavaSpringHibernateJMSAgile MethodologiesBackend Development+1

Education

University, Kerala

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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