Ankit Ahuja
Staff Software Engineer at Superhuman
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAnkit 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 TechBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Maharshi Dayanand University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
29reputation
1kreached
7answers
6questions
Github Skills (60)
accessibility10
jquery-plugin10
javascript10
jquery10
bootstrap10
console10
tagging10
readability10
css10
autocomplete10
textbox10
chrome-extension10
appearance10
keyboard10
contact-list10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ankit/ankit.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2026
Contributions:50 pushes, 7 branches in 9 years 1 month
coursera/scribe-plugin-table-command
Mar 2015 - Jan 2018
Table command for scribe plugins.
Contributions:4 releases, 14 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 10 months
command-tablescribe
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