Ankit Kumar
Software Development Engineer II at Flipkart
India
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Kumar is a Software Development Engineer II with 11 years of experience, currently leading security initiatives and the V3 migration of authentication and authorization across services at Flipkart. An IIT Kharagpur dual-degree graduate, he blends strong engineering fundamentals with business acumen developed through prior roles in category growth and P&L ownership. He has driven large-scale backend and platform improvements—prototobuf optimizations, Kafka/Pulsar pub-sub efficiency, Kubernetes migrations—that cut payload sizes, bandwidth, latency, and costs by significant margins. Known for tackling thorny R&D and trust-and-safety problems, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic automation to reduce KTLO and failure rates to near zero. Outside engineering he’s organized campus-wide initiatives and led athletic and arts teams, reflecting a taste for leadership and adventurous learning. He’s seeking R&D roles that welcome risky, high-impact experimentation and continuous improvement.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Degree (BTech + MTech) Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Dual Degree (BTech + MTech) Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (10)
touchmove9
react4
touchscreen4
react-component3
mobile2
swipe-gestures2
gulp-plugin1
gulp1
obfuscator1
javascript1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ankitsilaich/buildcorner-node
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 month
ankitsilaich/jumbotail
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:60 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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