Senior Staff Software Engineer

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.

A short note

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 :)

Portrait of Ankit Vashisht
Ankit Vashisht · engineer, at rest
Now

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