Summary
Ankit Ahuja is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 16 years of experience building high-performance front-end systems and developer-friendly platforms. He has led cross-functional teams at Grammarly/Superhuman and Coursera to deliver scalable design systems, TypeScript migrations, and performant browser extensions that cut input lag by 90% and reduced memory footprint by 30%. Known for driving measurability, he established performance metrics like INP for extensions and introduced end-to-end testing frameworks to prevent regressions on critical flows. His work spans product-facing features—WYSIWYG authoring, interactive transcripts, editor integrations—and low-level optimization, showing a rare blend of UX sensitivity and systems rigor. Early academic and internship projects produced widely used browser extensions and research prototypes, reflecting a long-standing focus on developer tooling and web UX.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Maharshi Dayanand University
English, Hindi