Ankit Kumar
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAnkit Kumar is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building platform infrastructure and scalable mobile systems. He progressed from co-founding a mobile startup to leading Android teams at ShareChat and advancing into platform roles at LinkedIn, combining hands-on app engineering with large-scale system design. His background includes major app refactors, custom library development, and measurable performance improvements (UI and memory), demonstrating a pragmatic focus on shipping robust, high-performance products. Comfortable mentoring and leading technical efforts, he blends startup agility with the discipline required at hyperscale organizations. A BTech graduate from IIIT Vadodara, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and deep Android expertise to platform-level challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara
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Github Skills (39)
kotlin10
music-application10
android-app10
android-application10
music10
reward10
android9
wysiwyg9
markdown8
google-play7
optimization6
proguard6
react6
apk6
sdk6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hapramp/steemconnect4j
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
SteemConnect SDK for Java.
Contributions:66 commits, 22 PRs, 47 pushes in 6 months
javasdksteemconnect
bxute/MarkDEditor
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
A WYSIWYG MarkDown editor for Android.
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 4 months
wysiwygmarkdown-wysiwygandroideditormarkdown
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