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Ankush Walhekar

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Senior Director of Engineering - Product Engineering at Sift
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Ankush is a hands-on Senior Director of Engineering at Sift, where he leads product and platform teams in the fight against digital fraud using AI. Described by others as a "smart and skillful architect," he holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a CISSP certification.

He recently earned the rigorous Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential, demonstrating a deep commitment to applying robust security practices to real-world engineering challenges.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Senior Director of Engineering - Product Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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AI in Fraud Detection
His entire role at Sift is focused on fighting fraud with AI, pushing customer-facing features and data science initiatives to win against competitors.
ML Platform Engineering
He is actively building and hiring for the team that creates the training pipelines and feature infrastructure for Sift's machine learning models.
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Career

Work history

5-2026
Senior Director of Engineering - Product Engineering
Sift
1-2024
Senior Director of Engineering - Platform Engineering
Sift
3-2021 - 2-2024
Director of Engineering
Sift
1-2018 - 6-2019
Senior Engineering Manager
Coupang
3-2011 - 7-2016
Senior Engineering Manager
DIRECTV
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Education
8-2022 - 6-2024
Master of Business Administration - MBA
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
6-1998 - 8-2002
Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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