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title: "Ankita Lal - Lead Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ankita Lal, Senior Software Development Engineer at Directi( Zeta Suite) | Ex-Jio | Ex-Sapient (Pronouns - she/her) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and cursor."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/ankita-lal/share-image"
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# Ankita Lal on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Development Engineer at Directi\( Zeta Suite\) \| Ex\-Jio \| Ex\-Sapient \(Pronouns \- she/her\)

## About

With around 10 years of experience, I specialise in building responsive, performant and intuitive UI applications using React\.js, Vue\.js, HTML5, CSS3 and TypeScript, with exposure to backend technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins\. Recently focused on AI\-assisted development workflows \(Claude, Cursor AI\) and MCP \(Model Context Protocol\)\-based architectures to boost engineering velocity and enable intelligent developer tooling\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

github copilot

mcp

notebooklm

## Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at Zeta, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 y 2 mo, Bengaluru

SDE 3 at Zeta Suite, Jul 2021 \- Jun 2025 · 3 y 11 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Leading the UI team responsible for creating an incident management tool SRE Home which enables SREs, CROs and Site Leads to efficiently deploy, monitor, and operate banking services with reliability\. It comes with a suite of applications that helps in continuous deployment and monitoring purposes\. \- Involved in design, product discussions and development of SRE Home from scratch\. \- Guiding and mentoring juniors and peers for different application components coming under SRE Home\. \- Leading the upgrade of the application framework to Vue3\. \- Ported the legacy version of the tool to web components using in\-house design system\. \- Actively participated in hiring and onboarding of new developers\.

SDE 2 at Zeta Suite, Aug 2019 \- Jul 2021 · 2 yrs, Bangalore, \- Worked as a Senior Developer creating a marketing tool which is used by Sodexo marketing managers to push offers and communication in the form of in\-product and push messaging to Sodexo\-Zeta Mobile App\. The tool included post targeting analytics also\. \- As part of the development, designed and developed 10\+ reusable web components\.

SDE 2 \(Assistant Manager\) at Jio, Mar 2018 \- Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developed Jio Coupons mobile web app from scratch for helping businesses acquire customers by offering coupons to a million users in MyJio App\. Created responsive, performant and optimized user interfaces for the web app\.

Interactive Developer L1 at Sapient, Jun 2016 \- Mar 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Worked as a UI developer on various client projects like Dubai Entertainment Parks \(YAS Islands\) website, Hotel Chain \(Marriott\) website and Internal Hiring Tool\. Created responsive UI components from scratch which were integrated in these websites\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Computer Science, birla institute of technology

Matriculate, Delhi Public School \- Patna

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