Pankaj Sharma — CTO
Engineering leader with over 15 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and building large-scale distributed systems handling thousands of requests per second and millions of daily users. My expertise spans system design, engineering leadership, cost optimization, and GenAI integration to drive real business impact. I’m passionate about transforming engineering teams into outcome-focused, high-performing units, where innovation, ownership, and speed go hand in hand. Over the years, I’ve led migrations from monolith to microservices, improved key business metrics through performance tuning, and implemented AI-driven developer tools that boosted team productivity by up to 40%. As a former startup founder, I bring a builder’s mindset, blending hands-on technical depth with strategic thinking to scale products, people, and processes effectively.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with expertise in distributed systems and team management.
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Experience: 15 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Leadership
- Java Development
Career Highlights
- 15 years of experience in engineering leadership.
- Expert in system design and distributed systems.
- Boosted team productivity by up to 40% with AI-driven tools.
Work Experience
Times Internet
Head of Engineering (1 yr 9 mos)
Paytm
Senior Engineering Manager (2 yrs 6 mos)
RateGain
Senior Engineering Manager (1 yr 5 mos)
Monster India
Tech Lead (1 yr 4 mos)
Spyne
Co-Founder (1 yr 2 mos)
Nagarro
Associate Lead (6 yrs 5 mos)
Tata Consultancy Services
Assistant Systems Engineer (1 yr 3 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Aligarh Muslim University
Intermediete at Senior Secondary School, AMU