Ankur Shukla
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
Experience
12+ years across fintech, OTT & telecom
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
Skills
Technology stack & core competencies
AI Tools & Platforms
Languages & Frameworks
Cloud & Infrastructure
Practices
Testing
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.