Anshu Kandhari
13 Yrs of Experience | Ex-(Facebook, Cred, Uber, Paytm) | CTO | Distinguished Engineer | Startup Founder. Built scalable distributed apps from scratch
13 yrs experience · Bengaluru, Karnataka · 20-30 hrs/week
About
● Conceptualized, Designed, Developed, Deployed, Optimized & Scaled Distributed Web applications ● Founded two startups & successfully raised funds for one of them ● Extensive Fintech, ecommerce & B2B experience ● Built Teams from scratch by hiring in UAE, India and Singapore ● Actively contributing and leading product, business, strategy and financial planning ● Analyzed & streamlined the development process to reduce the time to market for multiple projects.
Skills
Experience
- Software Architect · CRED12-01-2022 – 09-01-2023
CRED Payments Platform ● Architected building modular consumer platform ● Building service maturity charter at CRED ● Building UPI Stack for acquiring transactions ● Setting growth charter, roadmap and personal development plan for the payments ● Hiring New talent, Mentoring & continuous communication with leadership team ● Planning, Architecting, Strategising & Launching Industry defining state of the art solution ● Monitoring App Performance, critical Business metrics etc. with right alerts mechanism
- Staff Engineeer · Facebook04-01-2020 – 12-01-2022
Messenger & Collab Ads Commerce [Hacklang, Golang, Java, React, React-native, nodeJS, GraphQL, Python] ● Leading Business Commerce team of 20+ FTE, 6 FTC and 5 SDETs across Singapore, Canada & USA ● Setting growth charter, roadmap and personal development plan for the team ● Hiring New talent, Mentoring & continuous communication with leadership team ● Planning, Architecting, Strategising & Launching Industry defining state of the art solution to over 24 markets ● Collaborating with cross functional teams, set vision ● Improved Business Commerce Ads performance (ROAS) by 2.6x for SEA ● Aligning multiple orgs within Meta towards coherent architectural for Managed partner ads ● Leading architecture design, development & launching of Collaborative Ads which increased revenue by 1.8x ● Partnering with Product managers, XFNs, design regularly in an agile environment to data backed drive decisions ● Startup Mentorship to 3 startups under Meta accelerator FB start
- Sr. Lead · Careem11-01-2017 – 04-01-2020
● Leading team in creating secure, scalable & compliant digital wallet along with hiring its team from scratch ● Managing & contributing to product management, strategy and financial requirements ● Breaking Goals into OKRs, managing stakeholder reporting via OKR scoring ● Managing a high performing development team of engineers, ensuring good team health, feedback culture, scheduled 1:1s and following Agile development practices ● Partnered with Marketing, Designers,Director & Founders for Careem PAY vision and launch ● Architecting the system, designing business and tech KPIs for the Careem PAY vertical ● Leading the Careem PAY Data Platform team to deliver financial reporting/PnL/Business Reporting ● Launched Careem Pay in 18 countries with 2M daily transaction ● Founded & Presented business idea for handling Cash, implemented it and made it live ● Migrated wallet from an old monolithic architecture to microservices with 0 business downtime ● Established tech culture and processes around IAC, CICD, CDTs & BDD with Extreme Programming (XP) at its core
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