AKANSH AGRAWAL

Engineering Leader | Scaling Teams & Products at Hypergrowth

11+
Years Experience
80+
Team Members Led
$50M+
Revenue Generated
50M+
Users Scaled
99.9%
System Uptime
3
Successful Exits

Professional Experience

Co-Founder & CTO
GroStack AI
Mar 2025 - July 2025
Building next-generation agentic AI stack for enterprise marketing automation
Launched AdGenie AI - AI-powered ad creation platform for enterprise brands at aiadgenie.co
Leading technical strategy and product development for AI automation suite
Architecting scalable AI infrastructure for enterprise-grade marketing automation
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering
Creatoland Tech Pvt Ltd
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
Built comprehensive creator economy platform serving 100+ creators with ₹2L+ monthly GMV
Architected 3 interconnected platforms: FamPage (link-in-bio at fam-page.club), MyFansChat (AI avatars at my-fans.web.app), MyFamShop (e-commerce at myfam.shop)
Onboarded 100+ creators generating ₹15K/month in passive income each
Established partnerships with 30+ offline brands and 100+ affiliate partners
Built custom LLM layer on GPT for conversational AI avatars with real-time calling
Implemented AI Virtual Try-On technology for fashion e-commerce integration
Developed real-time lip-sync video generation and automated brand product scraping engines
Created multi-platform automation tools optimizing creator sales funnels
Engineering Manager (Head of Live Engineering)
ShareChat
Sep 2019 - Jul 2023
Scaled engineering organization from 0 to 80+ engineers across live streaming, chat, and payments
Led 10+ engineering teams across ShareChat and Moj product ecosystems
Architected chat infrastructure supporting 50M+ concurrent connections
Built scalable live system handling 500K+ concurrent users with 99.9%+ uptime
ChatRooms: Launched in 2 weeks during 2020 lockdown, became core ShareChat product
Virtual Gifting: Scaled to ₹5Mn daily GMV, top-grossing feature
Moj App: Contributed to launch within 30 hours, built complete engagement flow
Led AWS to GCP migration and established in-house Elasticsearch cluster
Lead Backend Developer (Acted as Head of Engineering)
Elanic (Acquired by ShareChat)
Jan 2017 - Sep 2019
Drove backend architecture and team leadership for fashion e-commerce platform leading to successful ShareChat acquisition
Headed engineering operations and strategic planning that resulted in company acquisition
Open-sourced angarum npm module - a lightweight utility library for Node.js applications
Improved system performance by 30% through Redis optimization and tree-structured rule engine
Scaled infrastructure for 100x growth (10K to 1M+ DAU) while reducing costs by 20%
Led team of 6 engineers through rapid scaling phase and acquisition process
Architected peer-to-peer marketplace enabling direct seller-to-buyer transactions

Core Competencies

Leadership & Management

Engineering Team Management Technical Strategy Cross-functional Leadership Acquisition Integration 0-to-1 Product Development

Business Impact

Revenue Generation Infrastructure Cost Optimization User Growth & Engagement Strategic Planning

Technical Expertise

High-Scale Architecture Real-time Systems AI/ML Integration Distributed Systems Microservices

Technical Skills

Languages & Frameworks

C++ Java Go Node.js Python JavaScript React Flutter MEAN Stack

AI & Machine Learning

LLM Integration GPT APIs Computer Vision Real-time AI Agents

Database & Infrastructure

MongoDB Redis ElasticSearch MySQL Spanner BigQuery Kafka BigTable

Cloud & DevOps

AWS GCP Kubernetes Docker Jenkins EMQX

Education

B.E. Information Technology
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
2010-2014 | GPA: 7.36

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