ankur gajurel
open for work
a generalist software engineer
i solve problems with code. currently tinkering around manim and video gen pipelines with openrouter/elevenlabs/fastapi.
skills
cloud
AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, SES, SQS), DigitalOcean (Droplets, Managed DB, K8s), GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes
frontend
Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Ant Design, React Query, SWR
backend
Node.js, Express, Nest.js, Vendure, Strapi, GraphQL, PostgreSQL
language & tools
TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Git, Linux, Vim, ETL Pipelines
experience
software engineer consultant
november 2025 - present(consulting)helping build a survey research and analysis tool for a european company.
software engineer
november 2024 - november 2025(full time, remote)built a webapp for monitoring and analysing electric fleet vehicles data. worked with vapi and hume for voice research.
frontend engineer
march 2024 - october 2024(consulting)converted UI designs to NextJS/Tailwind implementations. maintained POS/Kiosk app and CMS for restaurant management. developed webshop using NextJS, Tailwind, Framer, and Ant Design. integrated Strapi and GraphQL for CMS functionality.
software engineer
february 2024 - november 2024(full time, remote)reduced AWS costs by 57% through infrastructure optimization. migrated services from AWS to DigitalOcean. built ETL pipelines and CRUD APIs. contributed to main website and product development. managed various cloud services including S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, SES, and SQS.
software engineer
august 2023 - february 2024(full time, remote)deployed and maintained 15-20 projects, primarily on AWS EC2 and ECS. Built company landing page using NextJS. managed infrastructure using AWS, Azure, and GitHub Actions. worked with Vendure (NestJS) and NextJS/Tailwind for frontend development
software engineer intern
may 2023 - july 2023(internship, remote)assisted in deploying and maintaining various projects on AWS EC2 and ECS.