Ankur Shukla

Open to opportunities

Vice President – Full Stack Engineer

AI-First Architecture & Engineering Leadership

About

Technology leader with 12+ years of experience building high-throughput distributed systems and driving AI-first engineering practices at scale.

Currently a VP Full Stack Engineer at Citibank, leading engineering on a large-scale financial services platform. Proven record of growing and mentoring engineering teams, modernizing legacy platforms, and delivering measurable outcomes — from microservices transformations to high-throughput distributed systems.

Targeting Staff / Senior Engineer and Engineering Manager roles — long-term trajectory toward VP Engineering / CTO.

Key Impact

Measurable outcomes across 12+ years

~40%
Faster Feature Delivery
1.5M
Transactions / Minute
30%
System Efficiency Gain
50%
Pipeline Runtime Reduction

Experience

12+ years across fintech, OTT & telecom

Sep 2025 – Present

Citibank · Pune

Vice President – Full Stack Engineer

Trade Services · AI Governance & Agentic Engineering

  • Leading and mentoring a team of engineers on a large-scale financial services platform.
  • Designing and building Java / Spring Boot microservices for core business workflows.
  • Driving engineering best practices, code quality standards, and team delivery across the platform.
  • Collaborating with product, risk, and compliance stakeholders in a Tier-1 bank environment.
JavaSpring BootMicroservicesEngineering Leadership
Nov 2023 – Sep 2025

BNY India · Pune

Vice President – Full Stack Engineer

Debt Instruments & Client Services · Full Stack, BPMN, Cloud

  • Managed and mentored a team of engineers, owning delivery, code quality, and growth.
  • Spearheaded legacy systems modernization, increasing system efficiency by 30%.
  • Built 'Signals' — a full self-service React portal for debt instrument management.
  • Designed BPMN-based workflow automation using Camunda, reducing production bugs by 20%.
ReactReduxCamundaApp EngineEliza AI
Jun 2017 – Nov 2023

Think Analytics India · Pune

Technical Lead → Senior Software Engineer

OTT & Media Platforms

  • Engineered systems supporting 1.5M transactions/minute for live sporting events — zero downtime.
  • Built content-discovery solutions using Lucene APIs across Tier-1 European TV operators.
  • Led migration from Drools to Spring Boot microservices, cutting pipeline runtime by 50%.
  • Led a team as Technical Lead: sprint delivery, technical direction, and hiring.
JavaSpring BootLuceneKafkaAgile

Skills

Technology stack & core competencies

AI Tools & Platforms

Claude CodeDevinGitHub CopilotAnthropic APIEliza (BNY)

Languages & Frameworks

JavaSpring BootSpring KafkaSpring SecurityReactReduxTailwind CSS

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (IAM, S3, RDS, EC2)TerraformAnsibleKafkaCamunda (BPMN)App Engine

Practices

AI-First MicroservicesSpec-Driven DevelopmentEngineering Team LeadershipAgile / ScrumTDDCI/CD

Testing

JUnit5MockitoSpockGroovy

Contact

Let's work together

Open to Staff / Senior Engineer and Engineering Manager roles, as well as consulting opportunities. Drop a message and I'll get back to you.