Ankur Jain
AVP Engineering
Faridabad
Summary
An engineering leader with 14 years of experience building applications and leading organizations and development teams in fast-paced Agile environments. I have a track record of building teams who improve business performance and create real value for customers. Has a great mix of hands-on technical savvy, practical leadership and a focus on clear and measurable outcomes.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
AVP | Engineering(Founding Member)
Wyzard.ai
Gurgaon, India
04.2025 - Current
- Building Wyzard.ai, an AI-driven platform that boosts customer outreach by creating hyper-personalized content and facilitating multi-channel engagement via Email, LinkedIn, and Voice.
Principal Engineering Manager
OLX Indonesia
Gurugram, Haryana
01.2024 - 03.2025
- Established and led a 35-member team to lay a good foundation for engineering projects across various domains Monetisation, Seller and Search.
- Defined roadmap and planned monetization features such as Dealer store, Flash sales, Coupon Service resulting in 14% revenue gain.
Engineering Manager
OLX Group
Gurugram
10.2020 - 12.2023
- Lead multiple teams with 20+ members having cross-functional skills, including backend, mobile, and automation engineers.
- Users: Providing a stable, scalable user management flow, including login/registration, user profile, etc., to enable other services to build their features on top of that with monthly traffic of 300M active users. Also responsible for reducing fraud and increasing trust on the platform.
- Financial Transformation: To scale business and generate insights, concentrate on integrating all financial systems having more than 1 million monthly transactions (Dealer, B2C, and Classifieds) into a single system.
- Play the role of Scrum Master and follow Agile/Scrum methodology for development in sprints.
- Driving the team to achieve Business Objectives and Metrics: SLI/SLO/SLA for the team/code quality metrics
- Play the role of the architect to create scalable and robust services/products.
SE III - (Lead Engineer)
OLX Group
Gurgaon
04.2019 - 09.2020
- Designed and implemented the KYC feature, which enhanced the security and trustworthiness of user interactions on the platform.
- Developed the Lead Management feature in the B2C app, enabling OLX's B2C users to efficiently manage and track inquiries about their inventory, ultimately improving user engagement.
- Implemented a CI/CD pipeline for the OLX app, which streamlined the development process and accelerated the delivery of updates and new features.
- Managing the Users squad, focusing on improving the login and registration funnel, which helped increase user trust and retention on the platform.
- Mentored and guided team members, fostering their professional growth and enhancing team collaboration and effectiveness.
Senior Engineer
OLX Group
Gurgaon, Haryana
04.2017 - 03.2019
- Developed an Advertising SDK that fetches ads from multiple providers, which allows our apps to serve tailored content based on each country's specific requirements.
- Created the OLX B2C app for car dealers from the ground up using Kotlin, incorporating Architectural Components and adhering to Clean Architecture principles, which enhanced the app's performance and maintainability.
Software Engineer
OLX
Gurgaon
10.2015 - 03.2017
- Developed the first user monetization feature, Featured Ads, which generated new revenue streams for OLX and enhanced overall user engagement.
- Revamped the OLX India App by adding key features like Image Selection for posting ads, which improved the user experience significantly.
- Created a Custom Camera functionality, making it easier for users to capture and upload images directly within the app, leading to higher ad quality.
- Integrated Image Transfer in chat, which facilitated smoother communication between users and helped increase transaction efficiency.
- Enhanced user profiles on the OLX India App, helping to build trust and community among users, ultimately driving more interactions on the platform.
Software Engineer
Samsung Electronics
Noida Area
06.2012 - 10.2015
- Developed Android Native Applications, including Contacts, Calendar, and Calculator, which enhanced user experience and engagement across the platform.
- Proposed innovative features for the Calendar application, successfully implementing several ideas that improved functionality and user satisfaction.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
12.2012
BCA - Computer Science
Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak
12.2008
Skills
Leadership Skills: Team building, hiring, mentoring, performance management, cross-functional collaboration
Execution & Delivery: Agile/Scrum, program management, OKRs/KPIs, incident management, operational excellence
Technical expertise: high-traffic architectures, distributed systems, microservices, observability, CI/CD, and API design
Product & Business: Stakeholder communication, cost optimization, data-driven decision making, roadmap creation
Timeline
AVP | Engineering(Founding Member)
Wyzard.ai
04.2025 - Current
Principal Engineering Manager
OLX Indonesia
01.2024 - 03.2025
Engineering Manager
OLX Group
10.2020 - 12.2023
SE III - (Lead Engineer)
OLX Group
04.2019 - 09.2020
Senior Engineer
OLX Group
04.2017 - 03.2019
Software Engineer
OLX
10.2015 - 03.2017
Software Engineer
Samsung Electronics
06.2012 - 10.2015
BCA - Computer Science
Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra