Software architecture and product engineering across React and Django applications, with a focus on performance and large-scale data workloads.
+ React+ Django+ Performance+ Large-Scale Data
Ankit Popli
Product and engineering from early-stage startups to enterprise software.
I work across product, engineering, architecture, and execution — building software and teams that can grow with the business.
Who I am
I work across product, engineering, architecture, and execution — building software and teams that can grow with the business.
My background sits at the intersection of product, engineering, architecture, and execution. I enjoy taking ambiguous problems, turning them into simple systems, and building teams and technology that can scale with the business.
I have experience across B2B and B2C products, cloud-native platforms, distributed/event-driven systems, developer experience, and engineering leadership. I prefer being close to both the technical details and the business problem rather than operating purely as a management layer.
Selected work
A few products and platforms I've helped build and scale. Find more details on the projects page.
Enterprise SaaS engineering after rapid growth: scaling an existing GraphQL architecture, separating analytics workloads, replacing EC2 image-based deployments with ECS/Fargate, and building a replayable event backbone for new features.
+ B2B SaaS+ GraphQL+ Kafka+ Elasticsearch+ AWS+ Performance
Visitor management system built with React, Web Components, Django, and PostgreSQL, with offline-first web apps, native and React Native mobile apps, and Docker/Kubernetes deployment.
+ Visitor Management+ React+ Django+ PostgreSQL+ Docker+ Kubernetes
What I care about
Product Engineering
Technology should solve meaningful customer and business problems, not exist for its own sake.
Systems Thinking
I enjoy understanding how products, people, architecture, incentives, and operations interact as a system.
Engineering Velocity
Good engineering organizations should make it easier to make the right decisions and ship useful things quickly.
Developer Experience
Tools, processes, architecture, and culture should compound the effectiveness of engineers.
Teams
Strong teams are built through ownership, trust, high standards, good hiring, and clarity of purpose.
Currently exploring
I'm particularly interested in how software engineering evolves through AI and autonomous agents. Right now I'm spending time around:
- Local and private AI models
- AI agents and agent harnesses
- MCP and tool ecosystems
- Shared memory / personal knowledge systems
- LLM inference infrastructure
- Model quantization and local inference
- Developer experience for AI-native software
- How AI changes the architecture and economics of software products
Focus areas
Engineering Leadership
Team BuildingHiringEngineering VelocityOperational Excellence
Product & Architecture
Product EngineeringSystem DesignCloud-NativeDistributed Systems
Technology
AI/ML InfrastructureEvent-Driven SystemsDeveloper ExperienceB2B/B2C Platforms
Practices
ArchitectureProduct ThinkingCI/CDPerformance
Get in touch
A product-minded technologist who understands systems, people, and business — and likes building things.
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