Aanchal J
Fractional CTO AI & Engineering Strategy
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAanchal J is a seasoned engineering leader and fractional CTO with 14 years of experience helping growth-stage B2B/B2B2C companies turn board-level AI mandates into production-ready features. She has led large-scale teams at Block and Slack, scaling organizations, shipping revenue-driving SaaS and LLM-powered products, and cutting operational toil through automation and CI/CD. At Block she drove an LLM assistant projected to reduce seller labor costs by 15%+ and increased AI-driven code generation productivity by ~40%, demonstrating a knack for measurable impact. She excels at pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions, token-cost-aware LLM infrastructure, and cost/performance governance to protect margins as AI spend grows. As a fractional partner she focuses on rapid, secure execution and upskilling existing engineering leads to avoid handoff cliffs. Based in Redwood City, she combines deep fintech and data-platform domain experience with a track record of moving AI projects from slides into production in months.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Computer Science, Msc, Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasHigh School, Science, High School, Science at Delhi Public School - Mathura RoadBsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at University of Westminster
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
amazon9
aws-sdk8
aws7
sdk7
java7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
jain-aanchal/evernotePics
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:12 commits in 2 days
aws/aws-sdk-java
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
The official AWS SDK for Java 1.x (In Maintenance Mode, End-of-Life on 12/31/2025). The AWS SDK for Java 2.x is available here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 5 days
amazonaws-sdksdkawsjava
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