Ankita Kulkarni

Co-Founder

Toronto, Ontario, Canada11 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Educator with 10+ years of experience in tech.
  • Created successful courses for over 20,000 students.
  • Public speaker on technical and leadership topics.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Tech Educator and Engineering Leader with expertise in SaaS and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

TeachingFront-end DevelopmentLeadershipProject ManagementMobile Development

Other Skills

Software DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentNext.jsWritingCourse DevelopmentReact NativeJavaJavaScriptReact.jsSwiftAndroidHTMLSQLJSPTest Driven Development

About

Hey, I'm Ankita 👋 I've 10+ years of experience growing as a developer and a Senior Engineering Leader. I'm an Educator and create digital products online, such as my E-book on Taking control of your first 90 days for transitioning leaders or my Next.js course. I write a weekly newsletter on Frontend and Leadership to help you level up and grow faster in Tech. I also offer mentoring and coaching services and help folks level up in their careers. I love public speaking, so I give conference talks worldwide on technical and leadership topics. If you want me to speak at an event or want me to be on your podcast, please reach out: me@kulkarniankita.com If you want to learn more, check out my site: https://kulkarniankita.com/

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Self-employed

Tech Educator

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Built a successful course on Next.js and taught over 10,000+ students
  • Published author on Taking Control of your First 90 Days for transitioning Leaders and, so far, have gotten over 100 sales already within a week of publishing it!
  • If you are not ready to buy an e-book and prefer taking video courses, then take my FREE course on the First 90 Days: https://www.growthfor90days.com/
  • I am also working on a Growing Developers into Engineering Leaders course.
  • If you are interested, add yourself to the waitlist here: http://bit.ly/3EAwvhI and be the first to know when the course is out, provide feedback to help shape the course and learn about behind-the-scenes updates.
Software DevelopmentTeachingFront-End DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentLeadership

Wealthsimple

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Led Growth Engineering and 4 teams of 3 Engineering Managers and 5-7 developers in each team
  • Led the Women of WealthSimple Engineering Employee Resource Group of 120+ developers
  • Led and planned different career development activities, updated documentation and brought clarity to different company-wide processes such as Salaries, Competencies etc.
  • Built Growth Engineering, onboarded and scaled the Growth Eng org and processes
  • Systems: Led and managed WealthSimple Unified Onboarding, Unified Referrals and Notifications
  • Created a Strategy and executed on a Redundancy Plan for different complex services and to save costs of redundant software
  • Led the teams through massive company growth and hiring freezes

Loblaw digital

Technical Lead

Jun 2020 – May 2021 · 11 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Managed a cross-functional team of 2 teams of 6-7 developers across the following disciplines: Front-end React, GraphQL and Backend for Shoppers Drug Mart
  • Led and managed a cross-functional team of 2 managers, 10-12 developers, 2 designers, TPM and
  • PM for Shopper's Checkout modernization
  • As a senior technical leader, defined my team’s code delivery, processes and technical strategy
  • Improved the quality of the product and code quality by standardizing practices
  • Created a strategy and executed it with a team of 5-6 developers and built an SDM component library using design tokens, design system by taking a holistic approach and revamping the code review process
  • Coached and provided career growth opportunities for engineers through weekly 1:1’s and support
  • which led to them acquiring new skills and getting promoted
  • Defined our technical roadmap with the director of engineering and worked closely to build a strategy to meet our OKRs
  • Building different strategies for testing - automation, integration etc., slow rollouts and monitoring
  • Innovated and thought of new ways to help grow the team & improve the overall team's productivity & health
  • Grew 3 developers to Senior Developers, 1 to Team Lead and coached other developers across the two teams

Rangle.io

2 roles

Solutions Architect

Promoted

Nov 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Managed and led several Engineering teams ranging from 4-5 developers for different client projects, 2-3 designers, and Scrum master alongside client teams of 3-4 developers
  • Provided technical mentorship and process solutions for client teams to up-skill their technical knowledge in modern web and mobile technologies and the agile process.
  • React Native (RN) Lead at Rangle.io: Engaged in all mobile apps engagements to assess the right fit for Rangle.io to share knowledge and expertise for best practices
  • Specialized in building React Native apps, educating other developers on mobile best practices,
  • supporting and collaborating with clients to ease the transition from web/native to RN mobile.
  • Led the Roll up the rim project for Tim Hortons in Canada to help them go digital to help the environment
  • Projects:
  • Got the following apps from zero to production, and onboarded clients and their teams to further scale these well-architected projects:
  • Borrowell Credit Score monitoring app: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/borrowell/id1445507308
  • Zept - Connects university students with recruiters: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zept/id1421857801
  • Tim Hortons and BurgerKing (https://www.timhortons.com/rollup)

Senior Software Developer

Jan 2018 – Oct 2018 · 9 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Provided software, architecture consulting and development for several clients across multiple
  • industries, using Agile and Scrum methodologies to plan, estimate, and iterate on solutions.
  • Participated in weekly code reviews and adhered to industry and agreed-upon best practices.
  • Write automated unit test suites to ensure increased maintainability and code consistency.
  • Mentored and hired developers to work on different agile teams.

Lighthouse labs

Web Development Mentor

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Mentored 10+ different developers in different skill levels and technologies such as Ruby on Rails and JavaScript - both backend and frontend
  • Coached and helped them grow in their careers by reviewing assignments, providing guidance and helping them level up

Ibm canada

2 roles

Lead Software Developer, IBM Cloud Garage

Mar 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Led teams of 4-5 developers along with client teams and help them grow from greenfield to production
  • Used pair programming and TDD to up skill developers and designers
  • Developed web and mobile applications using Design Thinking and XP practices such as pair programming, TDD, Continuous Integration and more. Mostly work on AngularJS, ReactJS, Redux, Node.js for building the web and responsive web applications and use Android (Java) and iOS (Swift3) for mobile applications.
  • Use IBM's cloud platform to leverage the technologies such as Cloudant for NoSQL databases, several Watson services to add the intelligence to the apps, etc.
  • Worked daily with clients to better understand project requirements, trained project owners and developers to write user stories, on various technologies such as React, Redux, Angular, IBM Cloud, Android & iOS, helped manage client expectations and delivered various successful projects ranging from startups to enterprise clients.

Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • As part of the REST API Squad, built several key features part of Liberty Runtime Development such as REST API Design, MBean Management, Liberty Packaging and Discovering APIs using Swagger.

University of the fraser valley

Research Developer

Sep 2013 – Dec 2013 · 3 mos · Abbotsford, BC

  • Analyzed sentiments of users on Twitter using distributed computing, Natural language processing and Machine learning

Ibm canada ltd.

2 roles

DB2 Software Developer (Intern)

May 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Developed reporting tools that helped in defect tracking generated 100+ reports for project managers
  • Developed a Flexible Calendar Web Tool for maintaining critical information of release team dates &
  • defects of db2 in a centralized tool that helped managers to save data in 1 place for faster tracking
  • Improved performance by automating a lot of processes & building mini tools for common tasks which led reduced workload from a week to a day using Java, Domino & IBM Technology Explorer
  • Web development lead (intern) - Sept 2012 - Aug 2013:
  • Led a team of 50 interns by developing web apps for IBMers all over Canada.
  • Started technical presentations & initiated structure of Agile Software Development Life Cycle by
  • assigning key roles leading to the completion of 4 projects

IBM Future Blue Web Team Lead (Intern)

Mar 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Developed and maintained the website for the largest network of interns(400+) at IBM, Future Blue, Toronto Lab serving the interns and managers all over Canada.
  • Responsible for conducting code reviews, weekly status meetings and being reported to, project manager and tech lead, documentation of code and useful information

Education

University of the Fraser Valley

Bachelor — Computer Information Systems; Software Development

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Science — Information Technology

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011

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