After having scaled from 0 to 1, and 1 to 10, we are on our journey to a 100. As of now, we have just over a dozen services with 6 hot codebases, and a lean team which scales our platform to a battle-tested billion API calls a day, and concurrency just shy of a million.If you are a CTO who thinks their job is chaotic, I can help you find harmony (if you are serious, DM me here or @sankalp_sans on Twitter).How?As a CTO, I have 3 main key focus areas – going wide, going deep, and going around.Going wide – having a 20k feet view of the org often gives clarity around seeming unnoticed and ignored patterns. This helps me eliminate fluff work, projects with no consequences, or projects with insufficient direction. I believe killing poor choices early in their lifecycle in an org, is the biggest leverage any leader can provide.Going deep – once you've identified and scoped in work (hopefully that scope is within what your team can deliver), you got to ensure your team also aces this. This is where I roll my sleeves up, and get down to the T to help get patterns right, help break new grounds, and often times come up with a new piece of tech pattern, which guides the team of engineers to follow.Going around – If you are doing it right, your teams will be smack in the middle of execution, and in a state of flow, and now it becomes your job to help them figure out the upcoming goals. You go "around" the immediate needs and targets and try to play the fortune teller with no scientific enough crystal ball to rely upon. This means you will have to spend countless hours with vendors, partners, often times with your terminal, establishing a largely feasible direction. This is where I help eliminate the "fog of war" for our gallant troops. It also means that often time you will come up with an impossible problem statement and also help your team with very good first steps to scale that mountain of an ambition.

At Sportskeeda, we are on the mission to make sports content consumption and creation absolutely painless. We see the clear path ahead, and understand the pivotal role that technology is going to play in this.We have always adopted a human-first team building strategy, with deep focus on constant learning, intellectual rewards, and automating the grunt.Thanks to this, we are able to manage our massive scale of hundreds of millions of hits on our stack each day with a small team of highly driven high-impact individuals.SK Tech has the vision to be one of the best product teams, with best practices from the industry. We have built a culture of experimentation and exploration, as that often helps in stumbling over solutions that were unprecedented when we had thought of the problem statement.Leveraging lots of open source technologies, our team also happens to be a significant contributor to the Open Source community.

Inherited a large, buzzing legacy, and set out to streamline it into a well engineered and easy-to-manage set of services. One-click deployments, one-click tests became our north star. Transitioned into a stateless infrastructure which enabled the team to move fast without breaking things.Worked extensively on Site reliability engineering to ensure we take don't buckle under peaks.Evolved the systems from a slew of microservices and ad-hoc integrations (which served us fantastically well over the time, but were ticking time bombs) into something which is going to tend towards organized harmony of deliberately designed systems.

Role: System AdministratorInvolved in building and scaling up enterprise-level applications which scale up from few hundred to over a million transactions per day. Expert in performance tuning, Production roll-out and application architecture. Managed Web and Application tier for hundreds of mission critical applications used across the organization.

Set up a team of independent consultants – combining design, tech, & business.Worked with clients all the way from 2-member startups with shoestring budgets, till Fortune 500 companies. Unsurprisingly, some from both the categories of orgs still owe me some monies ;)Resourcefulness of a small outfit, combined with the suave of a large corporations helped me score repeat clients across media, banking, e-commerce and consulting.Lived and breathed the buzzword "digital transformation", which helped the teams I worked with avoid having to work 80-hours-a-weeks, 7 days a week.Helped create synergies between cross-functional teams who, before I stepped in, were unaware of each other's existence.

Worked in sync with the fast-paced organization that provides Customer Engagement Solutions. - Built several modules in projects dealing with Loyalty Programs, Interactive Social Games in Mobile platform, E-Commerce & Value Added Services. - Dealt with designing Logic Engines for analytics in social media platforms, mining User Preferences and social trends.- Built modules in MIS for leading Telecom Service Providers.

Designs and publishes the official bi-annual College magazine, 'Techniche' with articles ranging from arts, literature and technical field.