About

Ankur Singhal is a highly skilled and experienced Architect with expertise in Full Stack development, JavaScript, Angular, Node JS, React, Scala, Spark, Keycloak, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm. With 13 years of work experience in architecting analytical products, building and leading teams in Telecommunications, Ankur is currently working as a Principal Engineer at Guavus. As a Principal Engineer, Ankur holds various responsibilities such as supporting the architecture team as an individual contributor, mentoring other team members as a team lead to deliver in-time releases, handling team as an execution owner for task allocation, operating sprint planning meetings, and other agile related work including managing daily scrums, JIRA board management, builds and sprint demos, conducting PoCs to explore new opportunities, and defining product strategies with the Chapter Manager and Team Owners for both existing and upcoming product lines. Ankur has architected frontend development kit based on Angular to accelerate development and is leading the UI Team, Project Estimations, Project Reviews, Architecting UI framework, Code Reviews, POC on Frameworks. He has also architecturally driven the deployment strategy and implementation for the product from scratch. He has worked on multiple open-source platforms/applications like CDAP (AngularJS, React), Apache Superset (React, Python), Keycloak, and guided the team in adopting new technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm. Apart from his current role, Ankur has also worked as a Sr. Software Engineer at Educational Initiatives, where he collaborated with cross-functional teams to gauge functional requirements, created database schema and architectural design, led multilingual Mindspark, developed large-scale applications using PHP/MySQL, developed games and remedial items using Flash, Flex, and HTML5, assisted juniors on games, remedial and enrichment's architecture, provided technical support to other departments, enhanced existing applications, visited Mindspark centers to analyze and test product functioning, and deployed developed applications, games, and remedial. Ankur holds a B-Tech degree in ICT from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology and an RBSC, General degree from S.V.V.N. He has relevant experience of 13.87 years and is proficient in NodeJS, Spark, Docker, Senior Software Engineer, AngularJS, UI, Frontend, Kubernetes, Software Engineer, test, Scala, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CI/CD, DevOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Redux, Microservices, Web,