Ankur Goel

Senior Engineering Manager at BrowserStack
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Experience

    • Ireland
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Engineering Manager
      • Apr 2023 - Present

      Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    • Engineering Manager
      • Aug 2021 - Apr 2023

      Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Working with the Mobile Platform team to create developer tools ecosystem for the internet. - Leading Smart-TV vertical to make infrastructure for TVs like FireTV, Nvidia Shield and Apple TV. - Leading Mobile Platform to create infra and services for all products of BrowserStack. - Working on a stealth product to make performance testing easier!

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Engineering Manager
      • Mar 2019 - Aug 2021

      Mumbai Area, India - Headed technology and leadership to raise Series A, B and C round by Accel and Sequoia. - Launched digital assets - Digital Acquisition and Onboarding workflows, Customer web and mobile applications, high traffic engagement products. - Revamped our core data intelligence pieces from background workers to distributed message queues with calculable throughputs using RabbitMQ. This helped us in drastically bringing down infra cost, add reliable queueing and prioritisation in our jobs and… Show more - Headed technology and leadership to raise Series A, B and C round by Accel and Sequoia. - Launched digital assets - Digital Acquisition and Onboarding workflows, Customer web and mobile applications, high traffic engagement products. - Revamped our core data intelligence pieces from background workers to distributed message queues with calculable throughputs using RabbitMQ. This helped us in drastically bringing down infra cost, add reliable queueing and prioritisation in our jobs and to scale in real time. - Managed 4 engineering squads across different Drip's product verticals. Responsible for tech hiring and on-boarding new talent. Setup the on-boarding tracks to get people upto speed. - Worked very closely with Product teams and business stakeholders to drive tech iterations and deliverables.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      • Aug 2017 - Mar 2019

      Mumbai Area, India - Part of founding team. - Built tech function. Wrote core financing, customer onboarding, risk underwriting, data pipeline components and evolved them to meet business demands. - Wrote robust and fault tolerant banking integrations, making it easier to onboard new commercials banks (like SVB, Leumi, JP Morgan) and timely remit capital to exporters. This completely removed human involvement, brought down error rate to 0% and reduced the TaT from hours to minutes. - Built… Show more - Part of founding team. - Built tech function. Wrote core financing, customer onboarding, risk underwriting, data pipeline components and evolved them to meet business demands. - Wrote robust and fault tolerant banking integrations, making it easier to onboard new commercials banks (like SVB, Leumi, JP Morgan) and timely remit capital to exporters. This completely removed human involvement, brought down error rate to 0% and reduced the TaT from hours to minutes. - Built infrastructure for legal documents generation and E-Signatures. This digitalised the various customer journeys and significantly reduced manual interventions. - Introduced monitoring stack built on Influx, Telegraf, Chronograf and Kapacitor to measure and alert health and uptime of systems and various services. - Drip successfully raised Series A with Sequoia and Accel Partners.

    • Ireland
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Team Lead
      • May 2017 - Aug 2017

      Mumbai Area, India - Made platform and services to enable automation on real iOS devices. - Worked with distributed systems and high throughput services working across different geographical regions. - Strived for 4 9s of stability and uptime. - Contributed heavily to MicroMDM project for iOS mobile device management. Added new features to lock device, remove profiles. Implemented pub-sub for messaging on payload acknowledgments from mobile. This solved a major… Show more - Made platform and services to enable automation on real iOS devices. - Worked with distributed systems and high throughput services working across different geographical regions. - Strived for 4 9s of stability and uptime. - Contributed heavily to MicroMDM project for iOS mobile device management. Added new features to lock device, remove profiles. Implemented pub-sub for messaging on payload acknowledgments from mobile. This solved a major problem of interaction with devices without jailbreaking them. - Mentored new hires and got them to speed in contribution. Actively took regular interviews to expand the teams. - Worked more closely with Product teams and other stakeholders to drive tech iterations and deliverables.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      • Oct 2015 - May 2017

      Mumbai Area, India - Member of BrowserStack Automate team - Worked extensively in performance, scaling, architecture and deployment processes for different components in Live and Automate. Achieved SLAs for stability and uptime of 99.99% - Carried out Redis Sentinel HA on live distributed system(us-east-1, eu-west-1, us-east-2) with no downtime. - Revamped screenshot product and improved queuing time and success rate. Queue time was reduced from 14s to less than 2s in 90th percentile without scaling… Show more - Member of BrowserStack Automate team - Worked extensively in performance, scaling, architecture and deployment processes for different components in Live and Automate. Achieved SLAs for stability and uptime of 99.99% - Carried out Redis Sentinel HA on live distributed system(us-east-1, eu-west-1, us-east-2) with no downtime. - Revamped screenshot product and improved queuing time and success rate. Queue time was reduced from 14s to less than 2s in 90th percentile without scaling hardware. - Was involved in restructuring codebase enabling every product team to move at it's own pace. - Responsible for managing production systems, product uptime and code hygiene . - Responsible for taking interviews and onboarding of new engineers at BrowserStack. Technologies Covered: Node.js, WebRTC, Ruby on Rails, Selenium, AWS

    • Software Engineer
      • Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

      Mumbai Area, India - Created new pricing version for BrowserStack. Integrated with Stripe APIs, webhooks, wire transfer and resellers. - Revamped Browserstack Local-testing workflow which enables seamless integration with local servers. - Shipped redesigned BrowserStack Live. The new product is highly appreciated by customers and gained lot of positive feedback.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Google Summer of Code 2013
      • May 2013 - Oct 2013

      - Worked with Ruby Science Foundation to write core extensions for Statsample, a statistics library in Ruby. - Wrote modules for TimeSeries like ACF, Pacf, ARIMA, Kalman Filter and Generalized Linear Models etc. - Published active Ruby gems which are immensely helpful to our Ruby community: * StatSample TimeSeries - https://rubygems.org/gems/statsample-timeseries * StatSample GLM - https://rubygems.org/gems/statsample-glm - Blogged at: http://ankurgoel.com… Show more - Worked with Ruby Science Foundation to write core extensions for Statsample, a statistics library in Ruby. - Wrote modules for TimeSeries like ACF, Pacf, ARIMA, Kalman Filter and Generalized Linear Models etc. - Published active Ruby gems which are immensely helpful to our Ruby community: * StatSample TimeSeries - https://rubygems.org/gems/statsample-timeseries * StatSample GLM - https://rubygems.org/gems/statsample-glm - Blogged at: http://ankurgoel.com, http://sciruby.com/blog/2013/11/07/statistics-with-ruby-time-series-and-general-linear-models/ Show less

    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Software Engineer intern
      • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

      Mumbai - At Instamojo, I was responsible to make product's Analytics Dashboard for customers to get insights about their each and every offer. ­- http://blog.instamojo.com/post/58398371940/introducing-advanced-analytics - I primarily worked in Python, Django framework and Javascript. It was a very learning experience to responsibility and work end­-to-­end on a feature. - Also, create URL shortening service in the beginning where customer could directly modify the URL at his will. This also… Show more - At Instamojo, I was responsible to make product's Analytics Dashboard for customers to get insights about their each and every offer. ­- http://blog.instamojo.com/post/58398371940/introducing-advanced-analytics - I primarily worked in Python, Django framework and Javascript. It was a very learning experience to responsibility and work end­-to-­end on a feature. - Also, create URL shortening service in the beginning where customer could directly modify the URL at his will. This also enabled us to prevent losing referring websites insights in Analytics which wouldn't have been possible with external shortening services. - http://blog.instamojo.com/create-your-own-custom-shortlinks/ * Stack​: Python, Django, Celery, Redis, Javascript Show less

    • India
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Developer intern
      • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

      Mumbai Area, India - Worked on Inventory Management system. It replaced traditional SugarCRM and enabled Ola to manage their inventory with right customised controls. - Added much needed validations on their business model logic. Also covered test using RSpec and Capybara. Stack​: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, DataMapper, RSpec

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