Anil Shankar Sekar

Overview

Founder & CEO of Hollow Works, working on edtech. Signed 383 paying customers, 6 of them enterprises. Raised $11 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and LTIMindtree. Most at home with content and mobile. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Dec 2021 - Present
   Hollow Works · 4 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Grew the team to 44 people across 2 countries.
   • Took Hollow Works from zero to $11 million ARR.
2. Staff Platform Engineer

   Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
   Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led the migration of 53 services to content.
   • Moved 72% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Director of Engineering

   Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
   LTIMindtree · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 27 minutes to under 2.
4. Director of Engineering

   Jan 2013 - Apr 2016
   Infosys · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Moved 72% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Staff Android Engineer

   Oct 2010 - Jan 2013
   Swiggy · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 19 a week to 3.

Projects

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Education

1. Christ University

   BBA, Computer Science
   2006 - 2010