Akanksha Sahu

Senior Software Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India6 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

7+ years in high-scale fintech product development.
Expertise in React.js, TypeScript, and Redux.
Proven track record of driving performance improvements.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Frontend Engineer with strong expertise in high-scale product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

React.jsTypescriptJavascript

Other Skills

Node.jsPostgreSQLAirflowNatural Language Processing (NLP)Machine LearningHighchartsMaterial-UIBootstrapMicrosoft Visual Studio CodeVisual StudioAnacondaFull-Stack DevelopmentMatplotlibC++C

About

Senior Frontend Engineer with 7+ years building high-scale fintech products across payments, spend management, and compliance. Deep expertise in React.js, TypeScript, and Redux — with a track record of owning critical financial workflows end-to-end, driving performance improvements, and shipping greenfield features solo. Comfortable across both fast-moving startups (Zeni, Xendit) and large enterprise environments (Citi). 🛠 Core Stack: React.js · TypeScript · Redux · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Next.js 📌 A few highlights: • Sole frontend owner of the Bills & Reimbursements module at Zeni — accountable for all feature development, production stability, and cross-functional delivery • Automated reconciliation pipelines at Xendit, cutting report generation time by 80% • Built ML-based Roster Management platform at Citi that reduced manual scheduling effort by ~90% Open to Senior / Staff Frontend or Full-Stack roles at product-led companies working on meaningful problems. Let's connect.

Experience

6 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Zeni

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Pune District · Hybrid

Sole frontend owner of the Bills & Reimbursements module — responsible for all feature development, production stability, and cross-functional delivery of business-critical financial workflows.
Designed and built the Rewards feature end-to-end as a solo initiative, from architecture to production, serving as the founding frontend engineer for this vertical.
Co-led a company-wide dashboard redesign focused on UX modernization; reduced codebase size by ~20% through systematic cleanup and dead code elimination, improving load time and rendering performance.
Led frontend performance overhaul for Spend Management — eliminated duplicate/stale API calls and streamlined client-side routing, resulting in measurable reduction in API response times.

React.jsTypeScript

Xendit

Software Engineer

Sep 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Jakarta, Indonesia · Remote

Built end-to-end features on Xendit's merchant dashboard including transaction statement reports, reconciliation workflows, unsubscribe flows, and user feedback systems — serving merchants across Southeast Asia.
Automated custom report generation and reconciliation pipelines using Airflow, reducing manual operational effort by 60% and report generation time by 80%.
Streamlined release processes across multiple feature tracks, improving operational efficiency and accelerating delivery cadence.
Skills: React.js · TypeScript · JavaScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Airflow

React.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLAirflow

Citi

2 roles

Application Developer- C10

Jan 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Built enterprise dashboards to automate internal operational workflows, reducing operational overhead by 50% through streamlined UI and process automation.
Designed and developed the ML-based Roster Management platform end-to-end — including both the ML model and frontend UI — cutting manual scheduling effort by ~90%. Adopted across multiple Citi teams.

JavaScriptReact.js

Application Developer-C09

Jul 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

Developed and deployed ML models for detecting suspicious financial transactions (money laundering, fraud) - actively used by Citi's compliance teams in production.
Improved compliance monitoring accuracy and reduced manual review overhead within enterprise banking systems.

JavaScriptReact.js

Himalayan weekenders

Web Developer

Aug 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Remote

Developed a cross platform SPA for Himalayan Weekenders, a travel startup. The website comprises of multiple pages for treks/trips and also let users to register through it.
Tech: ReactJS, Redux, JavaScript, Firebase

JavaScriptReact.js

Iit kanpur

Summer Intern

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Kanpur Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

“Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Autistic kids”
Developed ML model from behavioral analytics for detecting early symptoms of Autism in kids.
Designed and developed Cognitive Training Games to train the working memory of the Autistic Children.
Tech: C#, Unity, Python, ML