Abhishek Agarwal
Senior Engineering Manager at Flipkart with 16+ years of experience in Building Scalable Distributed Systems | Ex Samsung
- Role
- Senior Engineering Manager at Flipkart
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Abhishek Agarwal
16+ years of progressive experience with 6+ years of leadership experience in driving engineering strategy and delivering complex, high-scale distributed systems in AdTech and E-commerce domain. A proven leader with the ability to manage large teams and align complex engineering goals directly with core business objectives, delivering superior performance and accelerated growth. Key Expertise & Impact: Scalability & Architecture: Led the development of large-scale, multi-component distributed systems and Microservices, real time stream and batch event processing systems. Successfully managed platforms handling peak traffic of 200K+ Queries Per Second (QPS), requiring sub-200ms low latency. Business Impact: Drove significant revenue growth (6x in last 5 years) by conceptualizing and launching high-impact ad features, real-time targeting capabilities and platform monetization strategies. Engineering Leadership: Scaled and mentored high-performing engineering teams (up to 30+ members across multiple teams). Established process improvements and AI adoption that resulted in 25% increase in engineering velocity. Strategize and stakeholder partnership: Established active, results-oriented partnership with Product, Business and leaders in strategizing future roadmaps, defining long-term technical vision, and ensuring engineering delivery aligns with ambitious business objectives
Experience
Senior Engineering Manager
Jul 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Building advertising platforms at scale, handling high traffic with low latencies, building complex capabilities and platforms. Active partnership with stakeholders in strategizing for the future, aligning engineering goals with business objectives. Leading multiple teams for Flipkart Ads serving ecosystem across multiple ad formatsLead cross team collaboration to build and deliver complex scalable user path featuresMentored the team for optimizing the performance and scaling the systems to handle 200K+ RPS during Big Billion DaysLead design and architecture for newer capabilitiesCame up with multi-year roadmap for the team, proposed platformisation to increase reusability and maintainabilityEstablished process improvements and AI adoption that resulted in 25% increase in engineering velocityActive brainstorming with product to shape up requirements and product roadmap
Education
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur
B.Tech, Computer Science
2004 — 2008
South Point High School
Science
1988 — 2004
Skills
- J2me
- Data Structures
- C
- C++
- Bluetooth
- Mobile Software
- Mobile Platforms
- Android
- Java
- Embedded Systems
- Connectivity
- Iot
- Algorithms
- Embedded Software
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