# Ankit Kumar Mishra

> Engineering Lead and Full-Stack Engineer with 7+ years across FinTech, RegTech, KYC and compliance, and LLM systems. TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS.

Engineering Lead | Full-Stack Engineer. Staff Software Engineer at TechPassport (London, UK). Based in Mangalore, India. 7+ years inside fully distributed teams, most of them spread across the US, UK and EU.

- Email: ankit5kumar14@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitkumarmishra/
- GitHub: https://github.com/AnkitKumarMishra5
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- Projects: https://ankitkumarmishra.is-a.dev/projects
- Experience: https://ankitkumarmishra.is-a.dev/experience
- Skills: https://ankitkumarmishra.is-a.dev/skills
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## Common questions

### Who is Ankit Kumar Mishra?
Ankit Kumar Mishra is an Engineering Lead and Full-Stack Engineer based in Mangalore, India, with 7+ years building production systems end to end. He is a Staff Software Engineer at TechPassport, a RegTech platform in London, where he owns the monetization stack. Before that, Engineering Lead at Vested Finance, an investment platform in Berkeley, California.

### What does Ankit Kumar Mishra work on?
Systems that move money and verify people: payment integrations, subscription billing, KYC and compliance flows, and the APIs and databases underneath them. The stack is TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL and AWS. Outside regulated work he builds LLM applications with tool calling, RAG, agents and MCP.

### Where is Ankit Kumar Mishra based?
Mangalore, Karnataka, India. He has worked remote-first for 7+ years across teams in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, and is open to relocating to the UK or the EU.

### Is Ankit Kumar Mishra available for hire?
Yes, available immediately. Full-time roles at Senior or Staff level, scoped contract and part-time delivery, and fractional CTO work. The fastest way to reach him is email at ankit5kumar14@gmail.com.

### What has Ankit Kumar Mishra built?
At work: TechPassport's complete monetization stack from scratch, a 75 to 80% cut in API response times, and global KYC onboarding at Vested Finance. On his own time: a Solana trading terminal that settles on mainnet, an expense tracker that reconciles Indian credit card statements, a real-time multiplayer party game, and a private-markets assistant that never lets the model do arithmetic. Those are the featured ones, all live and open source, with more on his GitHub.

### Does Ankit Kumar Mishra teach or mentor engineers?
Yes. He is a Subject Matter Expert and lead instructor across several engineering schools, including Codecademy, Coding Ninjas, Masai School, Cuvette and AccioJob, and has taught more than 50 batches of live courses and mentored over 1,000 developers.

## About

I own systems end to end: schema design, API contracts, third-party integrations, performance work, and the on-call that follows. Most of it has been in regulated environments where every change is audited, so I default to idempotent writes, explicit state transitions, structured logging, and tests that prove the numbers reconcile. The same defaults hold whether the system moves money, streams game state, or calls a model.

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.

I'm a Staff Software Engineer at TechPassport, a London RegTech platform, where I own the monetization stack end to end. I built it from scratch: Stripe integration, subscription management, and the full billing schema. I also cut API response times by 75 to 80% across the platform's critical endpoints, and I run the design-to-engineering pipeline in Figma, shipping features from concept to production.

Before that I spent two years at Vested Finance, an investment platform handling live investor funds. I joined as a Software Engineer and was promoted twice in 12 months to Engineering Lead, running the KYC/Compliance and Premium Management squads as de facto product owner. We took onboarding from a single market to global users and unified subscription billing across Stripe, Razorpay, Google Play, and Apple in-app purchases.

Outside work I build with LLMs (tool calling, RAG, agents, MCP) and have mentored 1,000+ developers as a Subject Matter Expert.

## Core numbers

- 7+ years in production engineering
- 2 promotions in 12 months
- 50+ end-to-end features shipped from concept to production
- 15+ member cross-functional team led
- 2 squads run as de facto product owner
- 5+ engineer squads led, across companies
- 50+ batches of live courses taught
- 1,000+ developers mentored

## Experience

### TechPassport (3+ yrs)
May 2023 to Present · London, UK (Remote)
Stack: Stripe, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, D3.js, Figma

**Staff Software Engineer** (May 2023 to Present, 3+ yrs)
- Architected and own the complete monetization stack 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, expanding the product's core analytical capabilities.
- Drive the full design-to-engineering pipeline in Figma, shipping 10+ features end to end from concept to production.

### Vested Finance (2 yrs)
June 2021 to May 2023 · Berkeley, CA, USA (Remote)
Stack: KYC, Stripe, Razorpay, Ledgers, Node.js, System design

**Engineering Lead** (June 2022 to May 2023, 1 yr)
- Led the KYC/Compliance and Premium Management squads as engineering lead and de facto product owner: scoped roadmaps in the absence of PMs, ran delivery end to end, and owned the platform's entry-point flows.
- Extended onboarding from a single market to global users by integrating alternate KYC providers and building region-aware compliance and verification flows, unlocking international expansion.
- Shipped money-movement features spanning payment processing, ledger systems, and curated multi-asset investment collections on a platform handling live investor funds.
- Owned subscription management across the product, unifying 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: authored system design documents, drove query optimization and structured logging, and mentored engineers through internal training.

**Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer** (June 2021 to June 2022, 1 yr)
- Promoted twice in 12 months. Built core KYC, onboarding, and payment features across the platform's entry flows before stepping up to lead the squad.

### GiveIndia (6 mos)
Jan 2021 to June 2021 · Bengaluru, India (Remote)
Stack: React, Node.js, Automation

**Software Engineer** (Jan 2021 to June 2021, 6 mos)
- Shipped UI features across 3+ high-traffic donation platforms and automated notification and database scripts.

### Pratilipi (6 mos)
Aug 2020 to Jan 2021 · Bengaluru, India (Remote)
Stack: React, Frontend

**Software Engineer Intern** (Aug 2020 to Jan 2021, 6 mos)
- Built the frontend for the platform's top-rated content discovery feature, serving millions of readers.

## Selected work

### Monetization stack from zero
Where: TechPassport
Context: The platform needed a monetization layer and none existed.
Did: Designed the billing schema, integrated Stripe, and built subscription management. I architected it from scratch and own it end to end.
Outcome: TechPassport's complete monetization stack, built and run by one owner.

### 75 to 80% faster APIs
Where: TechPassport
Context: Critical, high-traffic endpoints were too slow.
Did: Caching strategies, query optimization, and async refactoring across the hot paths.
Outcome: Response times down 75 to 80% on the endpoints that matter most.

### Configurable supplier workflows and relational visualizations
Where: TechPassport
Did: Built buyer-driven dynamic forms so supplier workflows can be configured per buyer, and complex relational data visualizations in D3.js.
Outcome: Expanded the product's core analytical capabilities.

### Figma to production
Where: TechPassport
Did: Own the design-to-engineering pipeline end to end, from Figma concept through implementation and release.
Outcome: 10+ features shipped from concept to production.

### Global KYC onboarding
Where: Vested Finance
Context: Onboarding only worked for a single market.
Did: Integrated alternate KYC providers and built region-aware compliance and verification flows.
Outcome: Onboarding opened to global users, unlocking the platform's international expansion.

### Money movement on live investor funds
Where: Vested Finance
Did: Shipped payment processing, ledger systems, and curated multi-asset investment collections on a platform handling real investor money.
Outcome: Production money-movement features where correctness is non-negotiable.

### One billing layer, four providers
Where: Vested Finance
Did: Unified subscription management across Stripe, Razorpay, Google Play, and Apple in-app purchases.
Outcome: A single subscription model across web and mobile.

### Leading without a PM
Where: Vested Finance
Did: Led the KYC/Compliance and Premium Management squads as Engineering Lead and de facto product owner. Scoped roadmaps, ran delivery end to end, and owned the platform's entry-point flows. 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.
Outcome: Promoted twice in 12 months; recognized with the company's "Owning the Problem" award (Jan 2023).

## Featured projects

A selection of featured projects. More at https://github.com/AnkitKumarMishra5.

### Crypto Trading App
A Solana trading terminal that executes real swaps on mainnet. Not a paper-trading simulator.

Discovery and analysis: trending tokens from live market data (Birdeye), token search (DexScreener), OHLCV candlestick charts, a live swap feed, holder concentration, on-chain safety heuristics (mint and freeze authority, liquidity depth, pair age), and optional OpenAI risk summaries.

Execution: the server fetches Jupiter quotes and builds unsigned versioned transactions. The user signs with a Privy embedded wallet in the browser. The transaction is broadcast over RPC and confirmed on-chain. API keys stay server-side.

There is no application database. Market state comes from providers and balances live on-chain.

Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, Privy, Solana RPC, Jupiter, Birdeye, DexScreener, OpenAI
Live: https://crypto-trading-app-akm.vercel.app
Source: https://github.com/AnkitKumarMishra5/crypto-trading-app

### Outlay
An expense tracker, validator and analyser for Indian credit card statements. It opens the password-protected PDF your bank emails you, checks its arithmetic, and turns a wallet of cards into one screen.

Statements arrive locked. Outlay derives the password from the cardholder profile, trying fourteen issuer patterns in a preference order, and learns a new template from any password typed once, so the next card at that issuer opens unprompted. The file is unlocked and read in memory and never written to disk.

Extraction is deterministic, with no model involved. Up to thirteen checks then run before anything is persisted, the important ones comparing computed debit and credit totals against the totals the bank printed, so a half-read statement announces itself instead of quietly skewing a year of numbers. The check record is stored with the statement.

Every account is a tenant. Name, date of birth, card digits and statement passwords are sealed with AES-256-GCM under a key derived per account, so a leak scoped to one account cannot unseal another.

The only optional model call rereads merchant names when the category rules get them wrong. A whole upload batch goes in one call, metered at two reviews per card per month with the review reserved in the database before the model is called, and what changed is shown for a glance, never as a required step.

Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, Postgres, pdf.js, Recharts, Neon, Vercel
Live: https://outlay-expense-tracker.vercel.app/
Source: https://github.com/AnkitKumarMishra5/outlay-expense-tracker

### Game Night
Real-time multiplayer party games in a browser tab. One person creates a room, everyone else types the five-letter code, and the table plays on their own phones. No download, no account.

An authoritative Node and Socket.IO server sends per-player state snapshots, so no client ever holds information its player should not see.

The client is a zero-build vanilla JavaScript PWA. Five games ship with it, including social deduction, a co-operative counting puzzle, and an AI-judged rule-guessing game.

LLM game logic is hardened against prompt injection, and 568 end-to-end checks drive real socket clients against the server.

Stack: Node.js, Socket.IO, Vanilla JS, PWA, OpenAI, Render
Live: https://gamenightapp.onrender.com/
Source: https://github.com/AnkitKumarMishra5/gamenightapp

### Investor Copilot
A conversational assistant for private-markets investors. Ask about holdings, MOIC, DPI, RVPI, fees, capital calls, distributions, and statements in plain language.

The core design rule: the model never invents a number. OpenAI tool calling handles intent and data access, all financial math runs in a deterministic compute layer over structured ledger data, and every answer returns the source rows plus a calculation trace.

It handles multi-currency reporting (USD, GBP, EUR, AED), multi-round positions, partial capital calls, write-offs, down rounds, and partial secondaries.

A golden-number eval suite verifies the compute layer without any model calls.

Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, OpenAI tool calling, Tailwind, Vercel
Live: https://investor-copilot.vercel.app
Source: https://github.com/AnkitKumarMishra5/investor-copilot

## How I work with AI

### I write the spec
Tools: Spec Kit, specify, plan, tasks
Before any code, I write the spec myself: what the system does, what it must not do, and how I will know it works. It is version controlled and it is the contract. The agent plans against that, not a prompt I typed once.

### Agents draft, I review every diff
Tools: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor
Agents run the implementation passes. I read every diff line by line the way I review a pull request, and nothing merges that I cannot explain. Different agents suit different passes, so I move between them.

### I teach it once, then reuse it
Tools: Skills, MCP, Connectors, Plugins
I author the Skills that package expertise for a repeated task. MCP servers and connectors give the agent scoped access to the systems it needs. Plugins bundle the lot so a workflow travels with the repo.

### Context lives in the repo
Tools: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, transcripts
The rules I set sit in AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, committed next to the code. Specs and session transcripts land as markdown, so the reasoning behind a decision survives the chat window and is reviewable months later.

### The repeatable parts run themselves
Tools: n8n, GitHub Actions
Once a flow stops being interesting it becomes an n8n workflow or a CI job, with the checks that catch it when it drifts. Anything I have done by hand three times is a candidate.

### What never gets delegated
- Schema design and API contracts
- Anything touching auth, money movement or a ledger
- Migrations and other irreversible changes
- The final diff review before merge
- Production incidents and the postmortem after

## Availability

Available now. Available immediately, and taking conversations for the next role.
- Full-time: Full Stack Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer, Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Engineering Lead, Technical Lead or Engineering Manager. Senior and Staff levels both work.
- Contract and part-time: Scoped delivery on payments, billing, KYC and compliance, frontend or backend rebuilds, API performance, or an LLM feature that needs to be right.
- Fractional CTO: Technical direction, architecture review, hiring and code review for teams without a senior engineering lead.
Remote-first, worldwide. Open to relocating to the UK or the EU.

## Skills

- Languages: JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Python, SQL, HTML5, CSS3
- Front-end: React.js, Next.js, Angular, Redux, React Native, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Jest, D3.js
- Back-end: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, GraphQL, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Kafka
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Supabase, Database optimization
- Cloud and DevOps: AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Docker, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Firebase, Vercel
- AI and LLM: Generative AI, LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), RAG, Vector databases, AI agents, Tool calling, MCP, Evals, Prompt engineering, n8n
- Architecture: System design, Distributed systems, Performance optimization, Full-stack development
- Leadership: Technical leadership, Engineering management, Cross-functional teams, Agile/Scrum
- Design workflow: Figma (design-to-engineering pipeline)
- Also used in projects: Solana RPC, Jupiter, Privy, Birdeye, DexScreener

## Teaching

Subject Matter Expert and lead instructor across several engineering schools. I'm an engineer first. Teaching live courses across 50+ batches and 1:1 coaching sessions is why I can take someone from stuck to shipping, write a review that teaches rather than blocks, and set technical direction a squad will actually follow. Scale: 50+ batches of live courses taught, 50-100 engineers per batch, 1,000+ developers mentored. Platforms: Codecademy, Coding Ninjas, Masai School, Cuvette, AccioJob.

## Education

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 2020. CGPA 9.07/10.

## Awards

- Awarded for Driving Ownership Culture ("Owning the Problem"), Vested Finance, Jan 2023
- 1st Runner Up, All India Research Competition, Zonal Round, IIT Kanpur, Mar 2020
- 2nd Runner Up, GEEKFIESTA 24-hour coding hackathon, GeeksforGeeks, Nov 2019