Anubhav Gangwal

Engineering Manager/ Technical Leader with 12+ years of experience driving large-scale enterprise product delivery, leading globally distributed Agile teams, and delivering cloud-native, full-stack solutions consistently achieving >95% on-time delivery and high release predictability. Proven people leader with hands-on experience managing and mentoring engineers and QA teams (10+ members), driving team performance, career growth, and retention, while improving delivery outcomes through structured sprint planning, backlog ownership, and data-driven estimation practices (~20% improvement in team velocity). Strong technical background across .NET, C#, Azure, Kubernetes, React, Angular, SQL Server, and API-driven architectures, enabling effective decision-making in system design, cloud modernization, and performance optimization, contributing to scalable, resilient, and secure platforms.

Trusted partner to Product, Architecture, and Business leadership, aligning engineering execution with strategic goals, proactively managing risks and dependencies, and enabling faster decision making leading to ~30% reduction in delivery escalations and improved stakeholder satisfaction. Results-driven leader focused on engineering excellence, implementing CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and governance practices that led to ~40% reduction in production defects, improved deployment frequency, and enhanced system reliability. Champion of Agile, DevOps, and continuous improvement culture, driving process optimization, cross-team collaboration, and data-driven retrospectives-resulting in ~25% reduction in cycle time and improved delivery throughput.

Experienced in enterprise search and data platforms (Lucidworks Fusion, Solr) and cloud ecosystems (Azure DevOps, GitHub, JIRA), enabling efficient data-driven applications, observability, and optimized developer experience.

Technical Manager - IQVIA - Pune

(2022-12)

• Led Agile engineering delivery across multiple full-stack initiatives, managing cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, product, architecture) to deliver roadmap-aligned solutions, achieving >95% on-time delivery and improving release predictability and planning accuracy.
• Implemented Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability using Hugging Face models, retrieving contextual data from Solr and enriching responses through taxonomy-driven augmentation and business definitions to improve semantic relevance, answer accuracy, and knowledge discovery across enterprise search use cases.
• Owned product backlog strategy and execution, partnering with Product Owners and Architects to define priorities, maintain 2+ sprints of ready backlog, and improve delivery efficiency-resulting in ~20% increase in team velocity and reduced sprint spillovers.
• Established strong engineering quality and delivery governance practices, including code reviews, architectural oversight, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines, leading to 40% reduction in production defects and improved system reliability and deployment frequency.
• Built and developed high-performing engineering teams by mentoring, coaching, and providing continuous feedback; fostered a culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration, improving team engagement, retention, and onboarding effectiveness.
• Drove process and operational excellence initiatives, introducing Agile maturity improvements, DevOps practices, and cross-team collaboration models, resulting in ~25% reduction in cycle time and improved delivery throughput.
• Contributed to enterprise architecture and technology strategy, guiding design decisions across systems to enhance scalability, performance, security, and maintainability, while reducing technical debt and improving developer productivity.
• Championed continuous improvement and engineering best practices, leveraging data (metrics, retrospectives, RCA) to optimize delivery processes, enhance product quality, and align engineering outcomes with business goals.

Technical Lead - Mindtree - Pune

(2021-04 - 2022-12)

Client: Microsoft

• Led development and enhancement of Azure DevOps Analytics services, supporting enterprise-scale reporting and insights for global users; improved reporting performance and data reliability, enabling faster decision-making and increasing stakeholder adoption of analytics dashboards.
• Delivered high-impact feature enhancements and critical fixes, improving application usability, accessibility (WCAG compliance), and performance, resulting in reduced user-reported issues and improved customer satisfaction scores.
• Owned and scaled modern front-end architecture using React, Redux, and RTK Query, enabling efficient state management and optimized data fetching, which improved page load performance and reduced API latency impact for end users.
• Acted as DRI for live service operations, managing production health, incident response, and escalations; reduced incident resolution time (MTTR) through proactive monitoring, root cause analysis, and operational excellence practices, ensuring high system availability and customer trust.
• Drove cross-functional collaboration with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams, clarifying requirements, managing delivery expectations, and providing transparent updates like improving delivery predictability and minimizing scope ambiguity and rework.
• Aligned engineering execution with business priorities, ensuring that delivery and system improvements directly contributed to customer value, product adoption, and operational efficiency.

Senior Software Engineer - Emtec Technologies - Pune

(2019-01 - 2021-03)

Client: Puma Energy

• Built Web APIs, Angular interfaces, wrappers, and troubleshooting tools to improve product functionality, operational support, and maintainability.
• Designed and developed Angular-based front-end applications, implementing reusable components, modular architecture, and responsive UI design to improve maintainability, scalability, and user experience.
• Integrated Angular applications with RESTful APIs, ensuring efficient data flow, state management, and error handling, resulting in improved application performance and reduced API latency issues.
• Implemented advanced Angular concepts such as lazy loading, route guards, reactive forms, and custom directives, leading to optimized load time (~20-30% improvement) and enhanced security and validation.
• Built reusable UI libraries and shared components, enabling consistency across applications and reducing development effort by ~25% through component reuse.

Software Engineer - L&T Infotech - Pune

(2014-01 - 2019-12)

Client: Insurify

• Developed UI screens, business object bindings, web services, and integration components for enterprise insurance applications.
• Debugged, analyzed, and migrated legacy policy decision logic to improve maintainability and support modernization objectives.

Bachelor of Engineering - Shri Govindram Seksariya Institute of Science and Technology, Indore (2013)