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# Ankit Sowle on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader \| AI\-Driven Domain Systems \| Scalable Platform Architecture \| Ex\-Autodesk

## About

I am an engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building robust, scalable software products within fast\-paced SaaS environments\. My background spans hands\-on development and team management, with a focus on cloud\-native architecture and high\-performance engineering\. I am passionate about mentoring diverse, global teams and fostering collaborative, Agile cultures that drive significant business value and technical excellence\.

## Location

Pune Division, Maharashtra

## Work experience

Staff Software Engineer \| Engineering Leader/Manager at Stealth Startup, Jun 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Transitioned from a 4\.5\-year Engineering Manager role to a senior IC position to drive deep technical impact in a high\-growth startup\. Continue to lead cross\-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence architectural direction across teams\.

Software Engineering Manager at Autodesk, Jul 2023 \- Jun 2025 · 1 y 11 mo, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Contributing to Autodesk Platform Services \(formaly Autodesk Forge\) group as a Software Engineering Manager to be able to better support the product development in the area of efficient design data collaboration and sync to cloud data\-sources\. Managing a fast paced development team of 6\+ members both developers & QA which includes roles from interns, developers to principal engineers expanding the spectrum of the team handling and servant leadership\. The product involves document management systems in Cloud like ACC Docs & Fusion, file/folder sync technology and efficient algorithms to improve performance thus boosting user experience\. Tech Stack: C\#, C\+\+, \.Net 6\+, WPF, MVVM, REST API, LightDB, AWS, FileSystem, JIRA, Agile Scrum, Jenkins CICD, GIT, XML, JSON, Portman etc\.

Software Development Manager at Thinkproject, Aug 2022 \- Jul 2023 · 1 yr, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Building Digital Solutions for AECO Industry 🏗️🏢 Problems Using Data Intelligence 🖥️ & Cloud Computing ☁️ \| BIM Data & Asset Management Tech Stack: C\#, ASP \.Net Core, ReactJS, JavaScript, Azure DevOps, GIT, Swagger, JWT, Restful API, C\+\+, Qt etc\.

Manager \- Software Development \- Advance Engineering & CEG at Sulzer, Apr 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 4 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Leading team of software developers and specification writers \(6 Direct Reports\) along with hands\-on individual contribution to the new features development and legacy tool maintenance\. A servent leader responsible for software development support, mentoring, elimination of impediments, help in technical discussions, decision making and coordination with customers and stakeholders to have smooth flow of work stream\. Involved in Product Owner activities of Agile Scrum as well\. Technical skills include C\#, JavaScript, SQL, Data Structures Algorithms, ASP Core, \.Net6, Azure Cloud DevOps, Microservices, PostgreSql, MongoDb, Kafka, Helm Charts, Docker, Kubernetes, Kibana Elastic Search, SonarCloud, GIT and many more\. A learner by heart\! Behaviour Qualities: Empathetic, Team Player, Good Communicator, Entrepreneurial mindset, Flexible, Transparent, Go\-Get\-It and Can\-Do attitude\.

Deputy Manager \- Advanced Engineering Group \- Software Development at Sulzer, Dec 2019 \- Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Pune, \* As a “Product Owner” of the Agile Scrum team the responsibilities include planning of the work items, Agile ceremonies execution like Sprint planning, Sprint Review & retrospective along with daily stand\-up in scrum team which also includes close co\-ordination with Scrum\-Master\. \* My team is a global development team comprises of the developers from Switzerland, Netherlands, China and India; this multi\-region team environment adds the complexity and challenge of planning and coordination of work items effectively\. \* Prioritization of the work items backlog as per the business stakeholder’s vision and road map\. Close coordination with business portfolio owners to have the product backlog aligned with the development path\. \* Accountability for the completion of the committed work items along with keeping team efficient and motivated\. \* Effective coordination in Inter Agile scrum teams for better dependency resolution of the work items spread in scope\. \* As an individual contributor, activities like new feature development, bug fixing and legacy hydraulic & mechanical design tool support and maintenance\. \* Support to local projects like CAD design automation tool development to generate 3D model using Solidworks API SDK programming and other automation projects as per road map\. \* As an additional responsibility, leading a team of mechanical design specification writers i\.e\. parametric solutions\. This includes coordinating the activities like specification writing, 3D Model preparation and developing automation prototype in DriveWorks\. Technology Used \- C\# \.Net, RestFul API, \.Net5, Microservices, WebAPI, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes Helm, Git, CI\\CD Pipeline, SonarCube, Azure, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio 2019, VSCode, Kafka, Clean Code, Event Driven Distributed System, Scalable Architecture

Software Engineer at Siemens PLM Software, Feb 2015 \- Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Worked in CAE Meshing Postprocessor team in Advanced Simulation software development\. Worked in NX\-CAE Advanced Simulation \(SimCenter3D\) Post\-Processing functionality development\. I was responsible to develop and maintain the functionalities for visualization of solver results like displacement, stress etc\. I have been involved in whole SDLC process through out the yearly releases which includes Functional document creation, design of functionality, implementation, unit testing and maintenance of the same\. I love to be challenged and try solving a complex problem by going out of the way off my comfort levels\. I am a quick learner of new technologies\. I feel technology is no barrier for me to grow in industry\. I take full ownership and responsibility of functionalities developed by me which as per the people is the best thing to help a company grow

Senior Software Engineer at Vaal Triangle Systems \(Now Sandvik\), Nov 2013 \- Feb 2015 · 1 y 3 mo, Pune

Software Engineer at Geometric Ltd, Aug 2010 \- Nov 2013 · 3 y 3 mo, Pune

## Education

Master of Technology \- MTech, Computer Software Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Amravati University

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