Summary
Ankit Kailaswar is a Lead Software Engineer and data platform architect with 15+ years of experience building mission-critical, high-concurrency data ecosystems and lakehouse architectures. He has led platform transformations at companies like InMobi, Swiggy, Deliveroo and XR Extreme Reach, designing end-to-end ETL/ELT and real-time streaming pipelines that handle billions of rows and stringent SLAs. Deep technical mastery of Databricks (Delta, DLT, Unity Catalog), Snowflake, Iceberg, Kafka and performance tuning enables him to deliver resilient, cost-efficient systems with strong governance, lineage and observability. He pairs hands-on engineeringโe.g., transpilers, dynamic ETL dependency detection, and auto-scalable query enginesโwith strategic product thinking to translate complex data into actionable business insights. A long-time open-source contributor and former Apache committer, he brings both community-driven engineering experience and pragmatic operational leadership. Based in the UK, he is known for shrinking compute costs while improving availability and for bridging platform strategy with analytics and BI needs.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
B.E. Computer Science, B.E. Computer Science at Pune University
English, Hindi