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Ankit Kumar Tekriwal

Bangalore

Summary

Engineering leader with 12+ years of experience leading backend, frontend, and infrastructure teams at organizations like Adobe, Myntra, Gameskraft, and MPL. Proven track record in managing high-performance teams, delivering scalable systems, and aligning technology with business goals. Skilled in building new products from scratch, optimizing systems for scale, and driving cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

  • Tech Architecture & System Design
  • Team Management & Mentoring
  • Microservices & Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
  • Agile Practices & DevOps
  • Roadmap Planning & Execution

Career Highlights

  • Structured and grew Pathbeat into a solid, tech-driven GenAI platform for large-scale audio and video content generation
  • Built and scaled backend systems supporting 60K+ CCU and 200K player tournaments across gaming platforms
  • Delivered high-performance inventory and order systems, processing 100K+ SKUs with sub-200 ms latency
  • Improved system scalability, reliability, and observability by building CRM initiatives, large-scale log aggregation, high-throughput auth systems, and real-time analytics pipelines
  • Mentored engineering managers and built high-performing teams across startups and enterprises

Work History

Co-Founder & CTO

Pathbeat
Bangalore
06.2024 - Current
  • Responsible for the overall technology strategy and execution for a cultural-tech platform using GenAI for audio and video storytelling.
  • Built scalable product architecture, backend systems, apps, and custom CRM to support growth.
  • Established B2B partnerships and led cross-functional initiatives for early revenue traction.

Senior Engineering Manager

Explorex
Bangalore
05.2023 - 05.2024
  • Led backend team of 8 engineers to build and maintain high-performance inventory and order systems.
  • Improved system reliability and observability, reducing incident resolution time by 50%.
  • Supported technical roadmap planning and mentored junior managers to strengthen team capability.

Senior Engineering Manager

Mobile Premier League
Bangalore
11.2021 - 10.2022
  • Led a seven-member team to launch and scale card games, supporting 100K+ concurrent players.
  • Improved gameplay stability and reduced player support ticket/PDAU ratio from 0.8 to 0.2.
  • Enhanced tournament infrastructure to handle large-scale events efficiently.

Engineering Manager

Gameskraft
Bangalore
04.2020 - 08.2021
  • Managed backend game engine systems, scaling CCU from 10K to 60K to support growth.
  • Delivered multi-tenant tournament infrastructure, handling up to 200K players.
  • Improved system stability, reducing live bugs from 50 per day to nearly zero in 8 months.

Earlier Roles

Myntra — CRM tech & log systems | Sigmoid Analytics — Real-time analytics | Adobe — Digital signatures & integrations

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science

Bangalore Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India
05.2013

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