Ajith Ranka
Software Consultant at Freelance
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAjith Ranka is a London-based software consultant with 11 years’ experience building web front-ends, creative tooling, and interactive data visualisations for startups, research groups, and cultural institutions. He’s delivered product-facing UIs and tooling—from an Arcana web wallet and marketing sites to media compression pipelines and a climate advertising dashboard for MIT-affiliated research. Comfortable as a hands-on lead and solo freelancer, he has hired and mentored frontend teams, set up dev processes, and shipped projects that blend CMS-driven content with custom visualisation engines. His background includes open-source mapping and microtask tools at Mapbox and experimental UI libraries from time at GeekSkool, reflecting a long-standing interest in maps, functional UIs, and tooling. Recent work spans media conversion for creator platforms and narrative web experiences for cultural clients, showing a knack for translating complex data into compelling, usable interfaces. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs curiosity about interaction design with rigorous delivery.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Github Skills (83)
openstreetmap10
javascript10
django-rest10
editor10
api9
django8
functional-reactive-programming8
rest8
rest-api8
explore8
changeset8
django-rest-framework8
tiles7
vue-application7
data-privacy7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
santoshrajan/frpjs
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:55 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
functional-programmingfunctional-reactive-programmingjavascriptreactive-programmingreactive
ajithranka/explorable-systems
Aug 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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