I'm Ankit Kumar Mishra, an Engineering Lead and Full-Stack Engineer with 7+ years building production systems in FinTech and RegTech: KYC and compliance, payments, API performance, and LLM applications, with earlier work in EdTech and MediaTech. I lead cross-functional engineering teams and have mentored 1,000+ developers.
- 🏗️ Staff Software Engineer at TechPassport: built the monetization stack from scratch and cut API response times by 75 to 80%
- 📈 Promoted twice in 12 months at Vested Finance, to Engineering Lead of the KYC/Compliance and Premium squads
- 🚢 50+ end-to-end features shipped, concept to production
- 🎓 Subject Matter Expert and lead instructor: 50+ batches taught, 1,000+ developers mentored
- 🏆 "Owning the Problem" award · Vested Finance · Jan 2023
- 🌍 Remote-first with teams in the US, UK and EU
The full story: Projects · Experience · Skills · Resume · Resume PDF · Ask the page
| Project | What it is | Built with |
|---|---|---|
| Crypto Trading App · live | Solana trading terminal that executes real swaps on mainnet, signed in the browser with an embedded wallet | Next.js, TypeScript, Solana, Jupiter, Privy |
| Outlay · live | Expense tracker and validator for Indian credit card statements: up to 13 checks against the bank's printed totals, AES-256-GCM encryption per account | Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres |
| Game Night · live | Real-time multiplayer party games on an authoritative Socket.IO server, covered by 568 end-to-end checks | Node.js, Socket.IO, PWA, OpenAI |
| Investor Copilot · live | Private-markets assistant: OpenAI tool calling handles intent, a deterministic compute layer does every calculation | Next.js, TypeScript, OpenAI |
Full write-ups on the projects page. More on my GitHub.
Languages
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Frontend
Backend
AI and LLM
Databases
Cloud/DevOps
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Tools
| Role | Company | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Software Engineer | TechPassport, London (Remote) | May 2023 – Present |
| Engineering Lead | Vested Finance, Berkeley (Remote) | June 2022 – May 2023 |
| Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer | Vested Finance, Berkeley (Remote) | June 2021 – June 2022 |
| Software Engineer | GiveIndia, Bengaluru (Remote) | Jan 2021 – June 2021 |
| Software Engineer Intern | Pratilipi, Bengaluru (Remote) | Aug 2020 – Jan 2021 |
TechPassport (Staff Software Engineer)
- 💳 Architected and own the complete monetization stack, built from scratch: Stripe payment integration, subscription management, and the full billing schema
- ⚡ Cut API response times by 75 to 80% through caching strategies, query optimization, and async refactoring across high-traffic endpoints
- 📊 Engineered configurable supplier workflows with buyer-driven dynamic forms and complex D3.js relational data visualizations
- 🚢 Drive the full design-to-engineering pipeline in Figma, shipping 10+ features end to end from concept to production
Vested Finance (Engineering Lead)
- 👥 Led the KYC/Compliance and Premium Management squads as engineering lead and de facto product owner, scoping roadmaps without PMs and running delivery end to end
- 🌍 Extended onboarding from a single market to global users by integrating alternate KYC providers and building region-aware compliance and verification flows
- 💰 Unified subscription billing across Stripe, Razorpay, and Google Play and Apple in-app purchases
- 🏗️ Set technical direction for a 5+ engineer squad inside a 15+ member cross-functional team: system design documents, query optimization, structured logging, and internal training
- 🏆 Recognized with the "Owning the Problem" award (Jan 2023)
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