About

Anand Shankar is a Senior Software Engineer at GoTo (Gojek) with over 9 years of experience in product engineering, project management, cost and quality optimizations. He is a chameleon who can don multiple hats with ease and is adept at critical thinking. Anand is a catalyst for growth at product-centric companies and has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions. At Gojek, Anand is responsible for the SDLC of cross-service and cross-team features/projects. He has built a deployment orchestrator service that caters to over 80% of Gojek's k8s deployments and mitigated Redis connection bottlenecks with a scalable Envoy proxy layer. Anand has also reduced account takeovers by approximately 75% by evaluating the riskiness of a login and decreased the time to login from over 40 seconds to under 5 seconds with a Silent login mechanism. He spearheaded the reliability initiative to achieve 99.99% steady-state availability and 99.9% availability SLO on the primary authentication service. Anand also led the infra cost optimization team that delivered annual savings of $3M+ and delivered a managed Redis cluster as an internal SAAS offering. He standardized logging and monitoring practices across all services within the team, resulting in an MTTR reduction of approximately 75%. Prior to Gojek, Anand worked as a Product Engineer at SoStronk, where he translated business logic into idiomatic Go code for a $1.2M funded eSports platform catering to 140,000 users and serving clients in 4 continents. He contributed to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including planning, technical design, construction, peer reviews, documentation, testing, and deployment in an agile environment. Anand also improved regional network coverage by 26% at less than 30ms latencies using Mixpanel and cut infra costs by 40% via optimization and aggressive vendor management. Anand has a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University College of Engineering and completed high school at Delhi Private School, Sharjah. His tech stack includes software engineering, Redis, infra, and test. Anand's relevant experience is 9.61 years.