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Ankit Hans

Software engineer, Bengaluru

I build infrastructure for software agents, databases, and live shows.

Last seen at a live show in Bengaluru

These days I'm at Tessell, building Starship, an agentic engineering platform, and the developer experience for Spectra, a Postgres that branches like git. Evenings go to Uplauz, a live-music platform I co-founded and build alone, so I spend a lot of nights at shows, watching strangers use my software.

I like the hard, invisible parts of software: the runtime under the agent, the branching model under the database, the latency budget under the "instant". Most of what I build, you'd only notice if it were gone.

Before this I built lending infrastructure at two fintechs, and came up through open source: Google Summer of Code at Red Hat, where my CLI tooling shipped inside OpenShift.

Tessell2025 — Present
Product EngineerMay 2026 —
Starship

co-builder agents running real software tasks in sandboxes on Kubernetes — I build the runtime, the live console, and the workspace layer beneath them

Spectra

Postgres that branches the way code does — I own the developer experience: console, SQL workbench, CLI, and the sub-second feel of all three

Associate Product ManagerAug 2025 — May 2026
Uplauz · Technical Cofounder2025 — Present
Uplauz

song requests, UPI payments, and AI song detection for live shows — live at uplauz.com, and I wrote nearly every line of it

VidyutTech · Associate Product Manager2024 — 2025
Vidyut

an in-house LLM/OCR document pipeline for EV lending — vendor cost down 70%, document processing from minutes to under thirty seconds

Volopay (YC S20) · Product Analyst2023 — 2024

credit and data systems — recovered ~$200K, and a funding framework that saved ~$1M in monthly working capital

AeroGear, Red Hat · Google Summer of Code2021
Charmil

validation tooling for Go CLIs, built in the open — shipped inside Red Hat's OpenShift Services CLI

Writing2021 —
Notes & essays

on agents, developer tools, and the open-source road — starting with Google Summer of Code

History2021 — Now
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Tessell
Uplauz
VidyutTech
Volopay
Red Hat · GSoC

Earlier: Myntra intern, Queen's University research fellow, and a B.Tech in computer science from SRM. Once won a national hackathon run by UIDAI, the people who issue ID cards to 1.4 billion humans. The formal record is available on request.