Ankit Jain
About Ankit Jain
Self motivated professional with experience in software product development life cycle with agile methodologies for more than 12+ years. I’m an enthusiastic learner keen to learn and contribute in the fast growing environment. Has 4+ years of experience in technical engineering leadership role where I nurtured & mentored team members, hiring, planning and setting roadmaps for product and for building product features with end to end delivery. Currently managing Braintree vault core platform team of engineers with a-mix of junior and staff engineers responsible for vaulting customer, merchant and payment instrument data. Collaborated with program managers to set the milestones for feature delivery for these 2 years. Coaching engineers individually, providing regular feedback through 1:1 for their career development. Build the high performing team from 5 to 10 by hiring engineers. Partners with cross functional product managers, engineering teams and architects to define the strategy to fill the gaps in monitoring and scalability. Set up the processes to follow the agile practices for better project planning and execution. Lead the development of availability portfolio to develop standin product to increase the PayPal availability to 99.997. Lead a team of 4+ engineers to reduce the FCI counts from 80% to 10% for processing capture transactions for standin approved auth transaction by designing tab model-based payment. Partnered with auth rate, risk team and product managers to increase the auth rate by 22% for high valued customers. Cross collaborated with risk team to improvise the decisioning and recovery strategy to decrease the loss rate from 8% to 2%. Cross Collaborated with E2E team and other platform teams to add the coverage for payments flow like Express Checkout, Website Payments, Direct Credit Card, P2P transactions. Increased the test coverage of standin application from 40% to 85% by enhancing the functional testing framework. Lead the E2E migration of standin SOR from Couchbase to Oracle with 2 engineers by cross collaborating with DB architects and DBA support team. Mentored junior engineers to develop and execute a technical career growth plan. Worked on identity management component of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 8.x releases. Owned, developed and delivered multiple features with high quality. Enhanced testing framework in html, fitnesse and Java to test product features. Cross collaborated with offshore teams in US for feature requirement analysis and development