Ankur Kakroo
Director Of Engineering at HackerRank
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkur Kakroo is a Director of Engineering based in Gurugram with eight years of experience leading teams across B2C and B2B products and a track record of building reliable, scalable platforms from zero to one. He brings an asymmetric leadership style that combines strong product and design sensibilities with rigorous attention to talent density and execution quality—from error copy to architecture. At HackerRank he progressed from Senior Engineering Manager to Director, previously shaping delivery and platform teams at Zeta and Publicis Sapient. He thinks in second-order effects, which informs hiring, team structure, and long-term technical decisions that reduce churn and improve developer velocity. A lifelong builder with formal engineering and IT management education, he balances hands-on technical judgment with strategic product thinking.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HSC Sciences, HSC Sciences at Vishwa BhartiBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityPost Graduation - Information Technology Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Post Graduation - Information Technology Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning
English, Hindi, Kashmiri
Github Skills (29)
stepper10
todoist9
pattern9
collocation9
ecosystem7
react7
neumorphism7
typescript6
react-components6
cli5
generator5
nextjs5
frontend3
boilerplate3
codesandbox3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ankurkakroo2/d3React
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
ankurkakroo2/ssh-env
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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