Anshul Shukla

Overview

I lead distributed databases at Compass Data in New Delhi. Led the migration of 63 services to performance engineering. Moved 77% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Postman and Axis Bank. I play football every Sunday.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jan 2026 - Present
   Compass Data · 9 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 30 a week to 1.
   • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 60 million requests a day.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Aug 2023 - Dec 2025
   Postman · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 5.
   • Grew the storage team from 5 to 13 engineers.
3. Engineering Manager

   Jan 2020 - Aug 2023
   Axis Bank · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 22 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 57 million requests a day.
4. Software Engineer

   Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
   Zomato · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 353ms to 52ms.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
   MakeMyTrip · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 69 million requests a day.

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Education

1. Shri Ram College of Commerce

   B.Com, Mathematics
   2009 - 2013