About

Sundar S Sankaran is a seasoned and decorated techno-functional engineering leader with a passion for delivering significant business outcomes through people and technology. He has extensive experience in building teams from scratch and brings a well-balanced energy across people, process, and product through engineering excellence and execution discipline. With proven communication and leadership skills, Sundar has excelled as a product and engineering leader in entrepreneurial environments. He is a tenacious engineering leader with a proven track record of strategic engagement at multiple levels of the product life cycle from inception to sustenance. He is a keen business leader, actively engaged with all stakeholders to maximize delivery and business results. Sundar takes complete ownership of products across releases, with extensive negotiations on sizing and adept in scoping cross-functional integration. He is inclusive in working with upstream and downstream customers, partner and support ecosystems, across functions and teams. He has transitioned teams to an Agile delivery model with measurable impact and outcome, built on a strong customer-first attitude. Sundar is a focused people leader and cherishes being measured through business outcomes. He is experienced in building a center of excellence and fostering technical and managerial leadership. He has diversified experience across all aspects of engineering leadership and operates beyond functions and boundaries – having wielded the cap of Development, Quality Engineering Excellence, Agile Coach, Product, and Customer Interface. Sundar is an astute professional with a Bachelor's in Engineering from BITS Pilani and a Post Graduate Certificate in Business Management focused on Business Administration and Management from XLRI Jamshedpur. His key organizational influences include revamping employee onboarding experience, conducting hackathons, modernizing technology compensation and benefits structure, establishing execution structure, agile practice orientation, influencing rewards and recognition programs, and campus & lateral hiring plans. Currently, Sundar is the Director of Engineering at Flipkart, where he is part of an extremely talented team that is visioning and building the Core Retail platform for all of Flipkart Group. Previously, he worked as the Director of Engineering, Conversational Commerce at 24/7.ai, where he led the team to top annual awards in HUM'2020 and HUM'2021 under three categories. He has also worked as the Senior Manager, Engineering - Conversational Commerce, Data Platform at 24/7.ai. Sundar's technical expertise includes senior software engineering, AI, integration, ReactJS, Cassandra, Kafka, Spring Boot, microservices, Salesforce, and