Ankur Banerjee
Senior Product Director at Decentralized Identity Foundation
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAnkur Banerjee is a product and engineering leader with over a decade of experience turning deep research into enterprise-ready products across distributed systems, biometrics, digital identity, and AI. As Senior Product Director at Zama he is productising FHE for privacy-preserving computation, and as co-founder and former CTO of cheqd he architected a Layer 1 blockchain for self-sovereign identity used by dozens of developer partners. He combines hands-on engineering (including front-end contributions to notable open-source projects like the Osmosis frontend) with board-level strategy and standards work as Co-Chair of the Decentralized Identity Foundation’s Technical Steering Committee. Ankur is also a named co-inventor on multiple patents tying multi-cloud AI and blockchain innovations to practical product designs. Colocated in Paris, he’s known for mentoring distributed teams, advocating for mental health and inclusion, and translating complex crypto/AI research into usable developer tooling and large-scale consumer/enterprise services.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Electronics and Computer Engineering, BEng Electronics and Computer Engineering at University of SurreyStudy Exchange Electronics and Computer Engineering, Study Exchange Electronics and Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
French, English, Hindi, Bengali
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Github Skills (18)
typescript10
nextjs10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
configuration-management9
cosmos8
tailwindcss7
corda6
recaptcha6
foreign-keys6
nodejs6
security6
facebook6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
osmosis-labs/osmosis-frontend
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Web interface for Osmosis Zone
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 13 commits, 12 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ankur primarily focused on updating and maintaining the frontend interface for the Osmosis Zone, a web interface built with Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Their contributions involved modifying configuration files, updating gauge IDs and token information for various pools, and fixing merge conflicts. The user's work ensured the correct display and functionality of token information and trading routes within the Osmosis frontend. They also made adjustments to the UI, including the addition of new WETH deposit and withdraw functionalities.
reacttailwindcsszoneweb-interfacemobx
cheqd/market-monitoring
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
CoinGecko Market Monitoring API helper, designed for detecting arbitrage opportunities
Contributions:59 PRs, 89 pushes, 58 branches in 10 months
cheqdapicoingecko-apiopportunitiescoingecko
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