Hi, I'm

Ankur Shrivastava

Engineering Leader · Building Systems at Scale

Currently leading 90+ engineers across 9 teams at Gojek - systems processing 70,000+ QPS at low latency for 3M+ driver-partners and 27M+ monthly users across Southeast Asia. 15+ years driving technical excellence from startups to scale - still hands-on with code, building AI developer agents, and shipping production systems.

About Me

I’m an Engineering Leader with 15+ years building systems at scale. Currently at Gojek, I lead 90+ engineers across 9 teams in 3 countries, architecting platforms that process 70,000+ requests per second at low latency for 3M+ driver-partners and 27M+ monthly users across Southeast Asia.

My path through Amazon, Flipkart, Carousell, Skyscanner, and Gojek has been about solving hard problems - from early Kubernetes adoption (2016) to marketplace matching at scale, and now org-wide AI developer agents. I’m equally passionate about growing engineers as I am about growing systems.

Linux user since 2004 — I still maintain my dotfiles. My open source Go frameworks: ColdBrew at Gojek and Orion at Carousell. I run a 100+ core home lab with local LLM inference, all managed through Terraform and containers.

Core Competencies:
  • Distributed Systems & Platform Architecture
  • Engineering Leadership & Team Building
  • Marketplace & Real-Time Systems
  • AI Platforms & Developer Agents
  • Cloud Native & Kubernetes
  • Technical Strategy & Execution
  • Multi-Region Teams (Singapore, Indonesia, India, UK, China)

Experience

Head of Engineering - Fulfillment & Driver Platform - Gojek
September 2020 - Present

Leading 9 teams with 90+ engineers across Singapore, Indonesia, and India. Multiple 70K+ QPS systems at low latency, supporting 3M+ driver-partners and 27M+ monthly users across Southeast Asia.

  • Personally designed and built ColdBrew, an open-source Go microservice framework now powering 100+ Gojek services
  • Hands-on building an org-wide AI developer agent platform - chat-driven, GitLab CI as the execution harness; ships PRs, manages Jira, reviews code
  • Built the operational analytics platform (55TB queryable in <100ms) serving engineering, ground operations, and customer support
  • Built a real-time VRP solver (OR-Tools) and rebuilt pricing engine with COIN-OR LP for sub-100ms decisions at scale
  • Personally replaced Redis with in-memory R-tree spatial index, cutting driver-availability lookups by 92%
Principal Software Engineer / Architect - Skyscanner
March 2019 - September 2020

Technical leadership across 11 squads in China, Singapore, and UK with 80+ engineers.

  • Pioneered direct booking platform opening new revenue stream beyond referral model
  • Architected cross-tribe technical strategy spanning flights and hotels
  • Led platform modernization enabling real-time inventory management at global scale
Principal Software Engineer / Team Lead - Carousell
July 2016 - March 2019

Led Systems Engineering team through hypergrowth as company scaled from 18 to 120 engineers.

  • Personally designed and built Orion, an open-source Go microservices framework now powering all Carousell services
  • Pioneered early Kubernetes adoption in production (2016)
  • Drove reliability improvements from 98% to 99.9% uptime
  • Established infrastructure foundation enabling 10x traffic growth
Software Development Engineer 2 - Flipkart
March 2015 - July 2016

Order Management & Orchestration Platform team.

  • Delivered 100% uptime during Big Billion Day processing $450M in sales at 10x normal traffic
  • Rebuilt entire Order Management System from ground up for massive scale events
  • Architected and launched CHORE (Change Order), orchestrating all order-lifecycle modifications from customers, support agents, and operations
Software Development Engineer - Amazon
November 2013 - August 2014
Launched Junglee.com mobile with 4M+ downloads, building complete mobile platform from scratch.
Senior Software Engineer - Zynga
July 2011 - November 2013
Champion Award recipient for CastleVille platform migration to Zynga network.

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I’m always interested in connecting with fellow engineers, discussing distributed systems challenges, or exploring new opportunities. Feel free to reach out!
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