Pankaj Sharma

CTO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India15 yrs 10 mos experience

Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with expertise in distributed systems and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipJava Development

Other Skills

AJAXAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsArchitecturesCCode DesignCoding StandardsCore JavaCross-team CollaborationData StructuresDesign PatternsDevelopment ToolsDistributed SystemsE-Commerce

About

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.

Experience

15 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

Times internet

Head of Engineering

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Paytm

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

LeadershipTeam ManagementJava DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureTechnical ExecutionMentoring+10

Rategain

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

LeadershipTeam ManagementJava DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureTechnical ExecutionTravel Technology+6

Monster india

Tech Lead

May 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

LeadershipTeam ManagementJava DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureTeam LeadershipDistributed Systems+3

Spyne

Co-Founder

Mar 2018May 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

LeadershipTeam ManagementJava DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureTechnical ExecutionTeam Leadership+6

Nagarro

Associate Lead

Oct 2011Mar 2018 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

LeadershipJava DevelopmentElasticsearch

Tata consultancy services

Assistant Systems Engineer

Jul 2010Oct 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Java Programming
Java Development

Education

Aligarh Muslim University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2010

Senior Secondary School, AMU

Intermediete — PCM

Jan 2004Jan 2006

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