Anant Bhandarkar

• Leading and managing a team of 23 including engineers, architects, Product and program managers.
• Driving 6 product works steams focused on associate experience portals and walmart campuses.
• Delivered health screening for all store associates utilized by a million associates daily for entry into stores during pandemic.
• Defined and delivered on return to office strategy and products for associates, vendors and visitors at various campuses in India for Walmart Global tech.
• Delivered Datawarehousing and subsequent analysis of all associate experiences on collaboration platforms such Zoom, Slack and Teams and physical spaces such as meeting ,conference and collaboration rooms.
• Defined strategy and vision for various associate facing products on associate experiences around IT, idea collaboration.
• Delivered chat bot based automation solution for associate ticket resolution for associates for commonly faced issues leading reduction in 70% of tickets needing manual intervention.

Built and led the Engineering and Product team at Impact Analytics, which is recognized as one of the fastest growing startups by INC, Forbes, and Deloitte.

• Provided technical leadership and vision, driving multiple agile teams to create a platform for delivering multiple products.
• Hired and managed a team of engineers, architects, product and engineering managers, and developed strategies to attract top talent.
• Evaluated challenges faced by Product and Business teams, and developed plans to mitigate risk.
• Communicated with stakeholders about impact of market and technology changes, and potential effects on engineering.
• Provided solutions that met quality and cost requirements.
• Built cloud-based products that are reliable, highly available, scalable, maintainable, and secure.
• Defined architecture and tech stack for the Smart Suite of products, which forms the platform for other products at the company.
• Delivered multiple serverless products using GCP Google Firebase, AWS Lambda, and BigQuery.
• Envisioned and delivered the RackSmart Android app, which won P&G’s Global AI Innovation Challenge 2018. The app uses on-device Tensorflow lite models to recognize and count products on shelves in local stores and supermarkets.
• Delivered the Jewelry Connector iPad app, which is used in stores to help customers quickly browse through a catalog of available items.
• Managed the DevSecOps practice, which maintains AWS, Google, and Azure cloud deployments.
• Drove compliance with various policies for SOC2 and ISO 27001.
• Currently manages the delivery of multiple products for multiple clients, powered by AI/ML/Datascience algorithms.
• Defined the complete tech stack, which includes React, Angular, Vue on Frontend, NodeJS on the backend, Postgres as DB, Redis for caching, BigQuery, Athena, Redshift, Snowflake for data-warehousing and analytics.
• Defined all processes based on Agile Scrum tasks, utilizing Jira and Trello for workflow management, Bit Bucket as Code repository, Jenkins for CICD, and teraform for infrastructure related deployment automation.

• Worked on iOS and Brew versions of Street Smart Offering.
• Worked on new features development, bug fixing and release of the iOS and Brew App.

• Built the team and Lead the development effort for Mobile Wallet Application Softcard which was eventually acquired by Google.
• Responsible for most of the project management activities such as Sprint planning for the team
• Microsoft Office for Symbian devices at Nokia.

• Defect triaging debugging with image customised images on various Nokia Devices.

• Internet Radio App which was part of Nokia N95 and N96 Devices.