I love to learn about technology, hack around the logic, and share what I know.
Full stack AI engineer with an indie-hacker streak. I build for the web, chase simplicity, and guard long, unbroken stretches of deep work.
Right now I’m building agentic AI for customer experience at Tars.
Who’s writing.
I’m Ankit — a full stack AI engineer with an indie-hacker streak. At Tars, I’m building an AI agentic conversation platform — customer-experience agents that teams can ship without writing a line of code. Away from that, I’m usually hacking on something small of my own, mostly to see how it works from the inside.
Two things I care about.
Simplicity and deep work. I’d sooner remove a feature than add one, and I’ll trade a busy, fragmented afternoon for a few uninterrupted hours any day. Most of what I’ve learned came from taking working things apart to understand how they think — then putting them back together a little cleaner.
When I close the editor.
I draw. I train at the gym. I read non-fiction, slowly, a chapter at a time. I watch more anime than I’ll admit in a portfolio. And for years I daily-drove Arch Linux — endlessly configuring a system I loved — before I finally moved to a Mac. I still love Arch, though. Long live Arch :)

I write to think.
A few recent pieces. The rest live on the blog —
Where my hours go.
- Role
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tars
- Building
- Conversational AI & AI agents
- OS
- macOS — ex-Arch, still love it
- Reading
- Non-fiction, a chapter at a time
- Watching
- Anime, most evenings
- Learning
- Japanese — 日本語, a little each day
- Drawing
- Whenever a page is blank
- Training
- Gym
- Mode
- Minimalist
- Chasing
- Simplicity & deep work