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title: "Ankur Kumar - Software Engineer II in Bangalore Urban district | Tal"
description: "Meet Ankur Kumar, Software Engineer II @ Tekion | Ex-Paytm | React, Next.js, TypeScript | Frontend Architecture | Performance Engineering | Design Systems based in Bangalore Urban district. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and codex."
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# Ankur Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer II @ Tekion \| Ex\-Paytm \| React, Next\.js, TypeScript \| Frontend Architecture \| Performance Engineering \| Design Systems

## About

I’m a Frontend Engineer with 5 years of experience building consumer and enterprise\-facing web platforms using React, Next\.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL, and modern frontend tooling\. Currently, I work as a Software Engineer II at Tekion, where I own frontend architecture and delivery for a multi\-brand Vehicle Configurator Application\. My work involves creating HLDs and LLDs, driving technical design reviews, building scalable frontend modules, improving performance, strengthening test coverage, and collaborating across product, design, backend, security, and platform teams\. Some of my recent work includes improving Lighthouse scores by 35%, reducing average load time by 67% from 6s to 2s, bringing FCP to 1\.0s, driving test coverage to 90% across critical configurator flows, and leading a major Next\.js upgrade from v12 to v16 across the Pre\-Checkout platform\. Previously at Paytm, I contributed to the Flights frontend migration from native to React across Mobile App, Mobile Web, and Desktop Web, while improving performance, Core Web Vitals, and production stability\. I enjoy working on frontend architecture, web performance, component systems, scalable UI platforms, and user experiences that directly impact business outcomes\.

## Location

Bangalore Urban district

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

glama

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Software Engineer II at Tekion Corp, Jun 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Working on Tekion’s Pre\-Checkout platform, with primary ownership across the multi\-brand Vehicle Configurator Application\. Key responsibilities and impact: • Own frontend architecture and delivery for customer\-facing configurator and Pre\-Checkout features using React, Next\.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend tooling\. • Create HLDs and LLDs for new features, drive technical design reviews, and align implementation plans across frontend, backend, product, design, security, and platform teams\. • Architected and led platformization of the Vehicle Configurator Application, establishing reusable frontend patterns for enterprise\-grade UI delivery and faster brand onboarding\. • Designed and shipped deep\-linking capability that launches the configurator in a fully pre\-configured state, enabling targeted marketing campaigns and supporting $2M\+ in campaign\-influenced vehicle sales pipeline\. • Drove performance improvements using Lighthouse profiling, telemetry analysis, lazy loading, code splitting, and modular JS delivery — improving Lighthouse scores by 35% and reducing average load time by 67% from 6s to 2s\. • Led Next\.js upgrade from v12 to v16 across the Pre\-Checkout platform, modernizing the framework foundation without disrupting production traffic or existing features\. • Improved reliability by driving test coverage to 90% across critical configurator flows and reducing regression risk\. • Triaged and resolved critical security vulnerabilities in collaboration with security, backend, and platform teams\. • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, implementation guidance, and production support\. Tech: React\.js, Next\.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Redux Toolkit, GraphQL, REST APIs, Webpack, Jest, React Testing Library, Storybook, Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools, CI/CD

Software Engineer at Paytm, May 2023 \- Jun 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Successfully migrated the platform native codebase to React, enabling seamless cross\-platform development across Mobile App, Mobile Web and Desktop Web, thereby greatly improving release cycle speed\. • Independently developed a feature allowing personalized UI for diverse user types, and implemented optimal promotional offers to incentivize bookings\. • Applied different optimization techniques to improve the overall application performance by code\-splitting, rendering checks, rendering patterns, and caching \. • Contributed to the enhancement of User Experience by improving Core Web Vitals metrics to ensure a rich and responsive User Experience on the web\. • Implemented Unit Tests using React Testing Library, covering various edge cases to enhance application confidence\. • Demonstrate expertise in Agile methodology and leverage SDLC tools \(JIRA, Jenkins, GIT\)\.

Frontend Developer \| XT \- React at Publicis Sapient, Nov 2021 \- May 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Client: Bank of the Philippine Islands Key responsibilities: • Contributed in revamping the UI of the banking website by developing reusable core react components and composing them together to bring rich interactivity for users\. • Derived key insights from requirements and created detailed specifications for application development, partnering with architects to design, code, test, debug, document, and maintain the banking application\. • Worked on an Agile \(Scrum\) Development Team of 15 members to deliver regular updates to business team and project managers\. • Implemented performance optimisation techniques to enhance the responsiveness and loading speed of the banking website, ensuring a smooth and efficient user experience\.

React Developer at Shyft Cabs \(SKSS Technologies Pvt Ltd\), Aug 2021 \- Nov 2021 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Worked on building multiple dashboards which served as the interface between drivers and cab vendors using NextJS and GraphQL\. • Translated designs & wireframes into high\-quality code and wrote application code via ES6 JavaScript following NextJS workflows\. • Communicated with UX, Backend and founding members to inculcate changes in the application\.

Frontend Developer at Lynchpin resources, Sep 2020 \- Nov 2020 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor of technology, Computer Science, University of Engineering & Management \(UEM\)

10th, English, Hindi, Maths, Science ,Social Studies\., Ishan international Public school

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