About

Anshul Goyal is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineering Manager currently working at Microsoft in the ODSP org. With nearly 11 years of relevant experience, Anshul has a proven track record of delivering exceptional results and solving complex engineering problems. Anshul's career began at FourKites, where he was one of the early engineers and played a crucial role in scaling the company from 0 to $40M ARR and a $0.5B valuation, with over 500+ employees. During his tenure at FourKites, Anshul implemented multiple systems that became core components as the company grew. He moved the system from Heroku to AWS in 2015 and then scaled AWS-based infrastructure, handling performance, reliability, scalability, and security concerns over the years. He implemented early versions of multiple features, including scheduled tracking, capacity-marketplace, phone-tracking, predictive ETA, among others. Anshul also handled appsec for the first SOC certification. Later, he moved to an Engineering Manager role and led a high-performing team of senior engineers called "Systems Engineering" to solve complex engineering problems at FourKites. Some of the problems he solved include service decomposition for the core-service, moving to no-SQL DB (Cassandra) for the largest most crucial DB (locations), building a highly (and quickly) scalable event bus, and initiating SQS->Kafka migration, among others. Anshul developed and promoted engineers to Senior Engineers and Staff Engineers. Anshul's education background includes a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), where he graduated in 2012. Anshul's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, SQL, Big Data, Javascript, Microservices, Azure, Ruby, Golang, Java, Cassandra, Kafka, and infra. With his extensive experience and expertise, Anshul is a highly sought-after professional in the industry.