Resume: Sankate Sharma

Resume: Sankate Sharma

Email: sankate@sankate.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sankate/

Summary

Engineering leader with 20+ years building and operating scalable, high-reliability distributed systems — across payments/fintech and, most recently, ML-powered ads at Meta. Track record of five-nines operational excellence, scaling orgs to 200+ engineers, and shipping ML-driven consumer products end to end.

Core strengths: Distributed systems at scale · Operational excellence (on-call, incident response, SLA/SLO, reliability) · ML-powered product delivery · Security, privacy & compliance · Building and growing high-performing engineering teams.

Experience

Engineering Leader at Meta Inc. (Jun 2022 – Present) — Austin, TX / Menlo Park, CA

  • Hands-on engineering manager leading a team of 18 (engineers, engineering managers, and tech leads), including ML engineers and a data scientist, owning ad creation (advertiser experience) and ad delivery products powered by ML/AI for personalization, targeting, and ranking.
  • Own the full lifecycle of ML-powered ranking and targeting services — integration, serving, monitoring, and iteration — operating at 500M+ daily ad impressions with five-nines availability targets.
  • Built 0→1 product ideas and grew them globally into multi-million-dollar revenue streams.
  • Partnered closely with privacy, legal, and compliance teams to launch products across multiple international markets, navigating jurisdiction-specific regulatory and data-handling requirements.
  • Drove product decisions through large-scale experimentation and A/B testing; established processes and SLAs to support high-value advertisers and business-critical customers.
  • Own annual planning, budgeting, hiring, and organizational design; set engineering strategy and roadmap, and drive cross-functional partnerships across product, ML, data science, and legal/privacy.
  • Leading by example to roll out AI-native engineering best practices across the entire org.

Director of Engineering at WePay Inc., a JPMorgan Chase company (Feb 2015 – Jun 2022) — Redwood City, CA

  • Ran the entire Small Business (SMB) engineering org covering customer experiences, real-time reporting, pricing, billing, webhooks, emails, notifications, and reconciliation.
  • Scaled the engineering team from 20 to 200+ engineers.
  • Owned the security and compliance posture of the payments platform — authentication, identity, encryption, PCI-DSS compliance, privacy controls, and fraud prevention — meeting the trust and regulatory bar required for financial services at scale.
  • Achieved five nines of uptime through a Linkerd-based service mesh for robust microservice management, CI/CD pipelines enabling multiple releases per day, and gatekeeper frameworks for blue-green deployments.
  • Refactored the engineering stack to handle 10x transaction volume by migrating to the cloud and adopting a service-oriented Java microservices architecture.
  • Managed the seamless integration of WePay with Chase following the JPMorgan Chase acquisition in Q4 2017.
  • Reduced interchange cost by migrating USD processing from WorldPay to Chase with zero downtime.
  • Expanded processor integrations to support multiple currencies, including CAD and GBP.
  • Implemented automated data pipelines on Google Dataflow (Apache Beam) for daily reconciliation and near-real-time reporting.
  • Defined engineering SLAs/SLOs and prioritization guidelines to establish an efficient operating model between engineering and product.
  • Defined company-wide processes for design reviews, engineering promotions, and career growth.

Architect at Intuit Inc. (Feb 2010 – Jan 2015) — Mountain View, CA

  • Owned cloud strategy and roadmap for the SBG group (QuickBooks Online).
  • Provided technical leadership to geographically distributed teams across Mountain View, India, and Orem, UT.
  • Defined the architecture for the cloud-native offering of Intuit Websites (Homestead Inc.).

Staff Engineer at Motorola Inc. (2006 – 2010) — Sunnyvale, CA

  • Led development of the first MOTOBLUR set-top box integration, with Flickr and Pandora apps showcased at trade shows including CES.
  • Delivered external communications and team presentations and trained marketing teams on social media integration — work recognized with a Bravo award.
  • Worked across engineering roles in the mobile (Android) and embedded (set-top box) groups.

Software Engineer (1997 – 2006)

  • Held server-side and full-stack engineering roles at Nokia (network services and charging systems), Union Pacific Railroad / ProKarma (EDI-based freight tracking replacing mainframe systems), Patni Computer Systems (Honeywell, NYSE, Pitney Bowes; led an offshore team in New Delhi), Newgen Software (Sun Microsystems, Canon document management), and Network Programs (video-on-demand for Fujitsu).

Languages, Tools, and Frameworks

  • Languages: Java, Python
  • Platforms & infrastructure: Spring, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Apache Beam, Service Mesh, CI/CD
  • Domains: Distributed Systems, Microservices, Cloud Architecture, Large-scale Backend Systems, AI/ML, MLOps, Security & Compliance

Education

MS, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning — University of Texas at Austin, TX (expected Fall 2026)

MS, Software Engineering — San Jose State University, CA, USA

BTech, Computer Science — Rohilkhand University, UP, India

Patents

  • Pre-built user interface for payment system and method — US11436601B2 · Issued Aug 17, 2022

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