Ankur Kothari
Staff Engineer at Up
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkur Kothari is a Staff Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with 17 years of hands-on experience building web and JavaScript-driven systems across startups and enterprise banking. He currently holds senior engineering roles at Up, Ferocia, and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank while running his own consultancy, lipidity, demonstrating an unusual blend of embedded engineering leadership and independent practice. Trained originally as a dentist (Bachelor of Dental Science Hons), he brings a methodical, patient-focused problem-solving mindset to software design and team coaching. His interests span web design, macOS tooling, and practical sustainability (Diploma of Sustainable Living), signaling a broad technical curiosity beyond core engineering. Colleagues know him for translating complex business needs into pragmatic, well-crafted code and for maintaining continuity across diverse technical and organizational contexts.
16 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Sustainable Living, Diploma of Sustainable Living at University of TasmaniaThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (92)
react-navigation10
react10
avx9
beancount9
dispatch9
react-native9
intrinsics9
ledger8
redo8
msr8
benchmark8
simd-library8
kotlin8
oauth8
gnu8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lipidity/myki-optimizer
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:13 pushes in 5 years
lipidity/CLIMac
Jun 2009 - Mar 2022
Contributions:138 commits, 2 pushes, 14 branches in 12 years 11 months
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