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Ankur Gupta

Ankur Gupta

Head of Engineering
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Energetic Head of Engineering known for taking ownership of dynamic projects to simplify complex business goals into manageable tasks. Creates laser-focused teams united around singular goals. Proficient at leveraging teams know-how and initiative to discover novel methods of engineering to exceed customer and senior leadership expectations.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4

Years of Senior Management experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Coinbase
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2023 - Current

Leading Compliance efforts for International Engineering Team ensuring Coinbase remains compliant in all the operational countires.

Head of Engineering

GoTo Financial
Bangalore, Karnataka
10.2021 - 07.2023

Leading Product Engineering, Quality Assurance and Data Engineering for Merchant Lending for GoTo Financials.

  • Scaled from 1 Product line (GoModal) to 3 Product Lines (GoModal, Settlement Finance and Investment Finance)
  • Scaled Engineering team from 7 engineers to 22 engineers.
  • Optimised Opex for Merchant Lending to achieve 40% reduction in same.
  • Providing Architecture blueprint for key projects and mergers
  • Driving structured growth in Merchant Lending with best engineering practices like OKRs, KPIs, Agile, Automation and IDP's
  • Developing squad goals and strategies along with Product leads and Engineering Manager and ensuring that strategies are executed.
  • Double hat as QA Manager, ensure best QA practices are adopted with taking into account individual development of QA team members
  • Annual budget planning for tech
  • Working with Product counterparts to develop product requirements by giving technical feedback
  • Building and maintaining long-term relations with internal and external stakeholders
  • Implement innovative technologies (Serverless vs with server , microfrontend etc)
  • Report on Engineering activities on a regular basis to the Senior Management team, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of the relevant Key Performance Indicators

Engineering Manager

Paytm
Bangalore, Karnataka
05.2017 - 10.2021

Paytm Lending

  • Built Lending LMS platform to scale of more than 10 Million Users
  • Supported all the lending product offerings by Paytm like Paytm Postpaid, Merchant Cash Advance, Personal Loans, EMIs
  • Leading a team of over 22 Engineers to build and support Lending LMS Platform

Paytm News

  • Built News aggregator service for Paytm to support more than 500 qps

Engineering Lead

Citrus Payments (Acquired by PayU)
Bangalore, Karnataka
04.2016 - 05.2017

Lazypay

  • Engineering to Data Science team
  • Built ETL pipelines to churn data across PayU to be used by ML models
  • Data modeling to generate PayU score for users, on which Lazypay is offered to users.

Senior Software Engineer

Akosha (Acquired By Amazon)
Bangalore, Karnataka
May.2015 - Jun.2016

Built Payment service for Helpchat (Mobile App), integrated with PayU as Payment aggregator.

Senior Software Engineer

Zipdial (Acquired By Twitter)
Bangalore, Karnataka
03.2013 - 05.2015
  • Built Platform for user engagements via SMS and IVR
  • Built referral program platform for increasing user engagements

Software Development Engineer in Test

OnMobile Global
Bangalore, Karnataka
Jun.2011 - Feb.2013

Developed Automation Suites for GUI using Selenium

Education

General Management Program - GMITE

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
01.2022 - 02.2023

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Telecommunication Engineering

Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg
03.2007 - 03.2011

Skills

Product development

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Timeline

Engineering Manager - Coinbase
08.2023 - Current
Indian Institute of Management - General Management Program, GMITE
01.2022 - 02.2023
Head of Engineering - GoTo Financial
10.2021 - 07.2023
Engineering Manager - Paytm
05.2017 - 10.2021
Engineering Lead - Citrus Payments (Acquired by PayU)
04.2016 - 05.2017
Senior Software Engineer - Akosha (Acquired By Amazon)
May.2015 - Jun.2016
Senior Software Engineer - Zipdial (Acquired By Twitter)
03.2013 - 05.2015
Software Development Engineer in Test - OnMobile Global
Jun.2011 - Feb.2013
Bhilai Institute of Technology - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics And Telecommunication Engineering
03.2007 - 03.2011
Ankur GuptaHead of Engineering