Ankush Dharkar
Product Engineer at Yudek
United States
Summary
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SeniorAnkush Dharkar is a seasoned software engineer and founder-coach based in New York, with 12+ years building software and mentoring others through Real Dev Squad's volunteering community. He combines hands-on full-stack experience across roles at Real Dev Squad, Amazon, Bloomberg, CrowdStrike, and Hotstar with a strong focus on turning concepts into practical, shipped features, including backend work with Firestore and frontend work with React/Next.js. As founder and coach of a free, collaborative learning community, he mentors engineers, designers, and product managers, runs workshops, and emphasizes debugging, code structure, and communication. His background spans technical entrepreneurship as a cofounder of YUDEK and instructional roles at Pesto Tech, culminating in advanced degrees from the University of Florida and an engineering degree from Shanmugha Arts, Science, and Technology. He runs toward projects that improve lives and re-invests value into initiatives that spread happiness and learning, always eager to meet new people and collaborate across disciplines.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
typescript310
node-js10
typescript10
next-js10
typescript210
api10
typescript-types10
firestore10
express-js10
rest-api10
typescripts10
backend10
react10
javascript9
javascripts9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Real-Dev-Squad/website-backend
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The backend code for all our website-related apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:234 reviews, 129 commits, 232 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ankush primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the website backend repository. Their work involved implementing features related to member data, utilizing Firestore for data storage and retrieval. They integrated Firestore into the existing codebase, created new routes, and updated the server configuration. The user also made changes to the server configuration by integrating environment variables for the PORT.
rest-apiapibackendnodejs
Real-Dev-Squad/website-status
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Shows a roadmap of the ongoing projects being done
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:143 reviews, 56 commits, 85 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ankush primarily contributed to the front-end of the `website-status` repository, as evidenced by the modifications to React components, pages, and related styling. Their work included implementing new features and adapting the project to use updated conventions for Next.js. They also merged branches, resolving conflicts, and integrated changes from other developers.
ongoingreacttypescript
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