Atlas Design System
A themeable Angular component library used by six product teams.
- Components
- 48
- Teams onboarded
- 6
- a11y test coverage
- 100%
Available for select freelance work
Hi, I'm Ashish. I build production systems
I am a software engineer with a bias for shipping. Most of my work sits where product meets platform: designing the API, building the interface that consumes it, and owning the pipeline that puts both in front of users.
About
Engineer first, generalist by necessity
I have spent six years moving between the browser, the server and the pipeline that ships both — usually because the interesting problems live in the seams.
I am a software engineer with a bias for shipping. Most of my work sits where product meets platform: designing the API, building the interface that consumes it, and owning the pipeline that puts both in front of users.
I care about the parts users feel but never name — a page that paints in under a second, a form that recovers gracefully, a keyboard path through every flow. Lately I have been deep in Angular signals, edge rendering and the surprisingly hard problem of making CI honest.
- Based in
- New Delhi, India
- Studied
- B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, Amity School of Engineering & Technology (2020)
Ship small, ship often
A change that reaches users this week beats a perfect one that lands next quarter. I break work into slices that can each stand on their own.
Accessibility is not a phase
Keyboard paths, focus order and contrast get decided while the component is being written, not in an audit six months later.
Own it in production
If I built it, I want the pager. Writing code you have to operate changes what you build in ways nothing else does.
Toolkit
What I reach for
Depth where it counts, working knowledge everywhere else. The bars are a self-assessment, not a certification.
Backend
APIs and services built to be operated.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Go
Frontend
Interfaces that stay fast as they grow.
- TypeScript
- Angular
- RxJS & Signals
- React
- SCSS / CSS Architecture
Platform & DevOps
The unglamorous work that makes releases boring.
- Docker
- Azure (ACA, Blob Store, Functions)
- AWS (ECS, S3, Lambda)
- Terraform
- Observability (OTel)
Ways of working
How the code actually gets built.
- Testing strategy
- Design systems
- Technical writing
- Code review & mentoring
- Performance budgets
Selected work
Things I have built
A few projects where the interesting part was not the feature list.
Experience
Where I have worked
Six years across product companies and an agency, mostly on things people use every day.
Senior Software Engineer
HUB Platform TechnologiesFull-time
Jan 2024 — Present 2 yrs 11 mosGurugram · Hybrid- Identified reliability gaps in the existing reporting pipeline and led the design of a configurable data orchestration framework from scratch, enabling real-time processing and daily generation of 50K+ financial reports.
- Drove technical design and build of a multi-asset Matching Platform for asset managers, reducing confirmation oversight cost by 35%; platform was selected to represent HUB's flagship trade capability at the Symphony Innovate Conference.
- Recognized that ad-hoc coordination across ingestion pipelines and distributed services was causing difficulty in maintaining consistency, and led the design and build of a Temporal + SignalR-based orchestration system that became the standard pattern for real-time coordination across Hub Platform services.
- Led consolidation of 120+ fragmented ETL pipelines into a unified framework, making the case for the migration, driving execution across teams, and improving reliability, traceability, and throughput by 70%.
- Designed and shipped a self-service analytics platform with automated SQL-based computations, eliminating manual analysis work and saving 15+ hours per report across teams.
- Mentored engineers through code and design reviews on the orchestration and ETL systems, established error-handling conventions adopted across our reviews.
Java Spring Boot Snowflake DB PostgreSQL Azure Kafka Temporal SignalR Angular TypeScript
Software Engineer
FoundIt (Formerly Monster.com)Full-time
Jan 2021 — Mar 2023 2 yrs 3 mosNoida · Hybrid- Re-architected core Seeker Platform services to millisecond latency using Java microservices, Elasticsearch, and Kafka-based event pipelines, supporting scale to 500,000+ users.
- Owned the Resume Builder microservice end-to-end — architecture, on-call, and roadmap — maintaining 99.99% uptime while scaling to 250,000+ monthly downloads and driving 35% engagement growth.
- Designed real-time job recommendation pipelines using Kafka consumers, delivering personalized results to 40,000+ daily active users.
- Built a dynamic PDF generation and routing module using Thymeleaf, improving retention by 20%.
Java Spring Boot PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Docker
Software Engineer
Avizva SolutionsFull-time
Oct 2020 — May 2022 1 yr 8 mosGurugram · RemoteSoftware Engineer specializing in scalable enterprise integrations, high-throughput automated rule engines, and technical team enablement.
- Led development of a scalable rule engine for insurance claims auditing, processing 250,000+ transactions monthly and integrated advanced validations and exception management in the Javelina-System, improving data quality by 35%.
- Automated Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) generation for the GBAS system, ensuring multi-format compatibility (FFD, CSV, EDI, TXT) across 14 downstream integrations and reducing manual input by 80%.
- Orchestrated a MuleSoft community of practice, enabling 10+ developers to cross-train on new API modules and become certified, thus improving overall team agility and responsiveness.
Java Mulesoft PostgreSQL Drools Angular TypeScript AWS
References
What people say
Ashish is the engineer I hand the ambiguous problems to. He comes back with a design, the trade-offs written down, and usually a prototype that already answers half the questions.
Priya RaghavanVP Engineering, Northwind Labs Our checkout rewrite could easily have taken a year. He scoped it into shippable slices and we were live in eleven weeks with no rollback.
Daniel OseiHead of Product, Lumen Retail The accessibility work he did on our platform passed audit first time — I have never seen that happen before or since.
Meera IyerDesign Director, Brightfold Studio
Writing
Notes from the work
Post-mortems, migrations and the occasional strong opinion about testing.
What actually changes when you go zoneless
Removing zone.js from a 240-component Angular app was less about performance and more about finally understanding when our UI updates.
Design the API that fits the screen, not the database
Eleven round trips became one when we stopped exposing our schema and started exposing our pages.
CSS custom properties are a runtime, and that changes how you theme
Two themes is a config problem. Three is an architecture problem. Here is the line between them.
Let's talk
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doing properly?
I take on a small number of freelance engagements each year — usually performance work, platform migrations or design systems. Tell me what you are building and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right fit.