Ankit Kante

$ whoami

Ankit Kante

$ cat about.txt

Frontend developer for 11 years, from SDE to Lead Engineer. Now taking a break from code to learn content creation.

## ls ./apps

  • gurunearme-web/

    GuruNearMe website

    Connects students with tutors and coaching centers across India.

    angular · typescript
    open ↗
  • gurunearme-app/

    GuruNearMe app

    Mobile app equivalent of the website, on Android and iPhone.

    react-native
    android ↗iphone ↗
  • verbaplay/ (archived)

    VerbaPlay

    Select an alphabet and form words to score points.

    react · nextjs
    source ↗

Most of my 11 years went into B2B platforms and early-stage startups, so that work isn't public. The career log below covers it.

## git log --career

  1. Sep 2024 – May 2025

    Tech Lead @ Shikshatam

    Joined to write blogs and help with SEO. With a small team, ended up planning sprints, writing code, guiding the developers and managing the Azure servers.

  2. Dec 2017 – May 2024

    Lead Engineer @ Falkonry

    Worked on an ML platform that predicts when factory machines need maintenance. Started on the frontend team building the signal charts and model output views. As Lead, ran the team that built two apps in the product suite, Insights and Rules, and was scrum master for its sprints.

  3. Feb 2017 – Oct 2017

    Senior Software Engineer @ Dekkho

    Sole frontend developer on an OTT video site, built with Polymer. Also worked on the content team's Django admin panel for uploading videos to Brightcove. On camera, presented Trailer Todh, a trailer review show for Dekkho's Facebook page.

  4. Jun 2015 – Feb 2017

    Full Stack Developer @ Sendd (acquired by Craftsvilla, Feb 2016)

    Sendd let businesses create shipments with courier partners like FedEx and track them all from one dashboard. Worked on that dashboard, and added new courier integrations in Python/Django. After the acquisition, it connected Craftsvilla's website to those couriers.

  5. Jun 2014 – Jun 2015

    Software Design Engineer @ Newgen

    Built the mobile version of OmniDocs, a document management system, on a Cordova-based platform.

const skills = {web: ['Vue', 'Angular', 'React', 'Next.js'],mobile: ['React Native'],core: ['HTML5', 'CSS3', 'JavaScript', 'TypeScript'],backend: ['Node.js', 'Python', 'Django'],devops: ['Docker', 'Azure', 'AWS'],testing: ['Jest', 'Cypress'],}