Ankit
Vashisht.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
I build for the web, make room for deep work, and follow my curiosity.
Currently building agentic AI at Tars
A little about meScroll to look aroundCuriosity is
the through line.
I love to learn about technology, hack around the logic, and share what I know.
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.
Things I’ve
built & kept.
The everyday work, the small experiments, and the ideas that stayed.
I write
to think.
Notes on simplicity, deep work, and the craft of building software. A few recent pieces:
All writingWhen I close
the editor.
I draw. I train. I read slowly.
Non-fiction, a chapter at a time. 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 :)
- 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