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Animesh Basak / Lead Engineer

A different way
to know the builder.

Frontend systems and architecture. AI-assisted backend and React Native contributions. Independent ideas, built with care.

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Your perspective / Engineering decisions

The interface is where the system becomes real.

How a product is structured affects how it behaves. Explore my work through architecture, performance, reusable UI and the choices behind independent projects.

02 / Independent work · five explorations

Ideas made inspectable.

A connected workspace. Tools for AI-assisted engineering. Experiments with clear boundaries.

01 / ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT

Lakshya Hub

One connected job-search workspace.

An AI-assisted job-search workspace combining discovery, résumé preparation and application tracking. I’m bringing previously separate résumé tooling into the same product.

Purpose → Approach → Trade-off ↗
02 / PUBLIC OPEN SOURCE

PAARTH

A working method for AI-assisted coding.

PAARTH, formerly SuperAgent, is an open-source layer I built around AI coding tools: workflow routing, persistent memory, action checks and cost controls.

Purpose → Approach → Trade-off ↗
03 / IN DEVELOPMENT

FRIDAY

A personal agent, built around local constraints.

A local-first personal agent in Python, exploring how orchestration, memory and review can work within the limits of a personal machine.

Purpose → Approach → Trade-off ↗
04 / PAPER-TRADING RESEARCH

PAARTH-TRADER

Research first. Paper trading only.

A local-first trading research system I’m developing to compare strategies and model choices through controlled paper-trading experiments.

Purpose → Approach → Trade-off ↗
05 / DOCUMENTED BUILD

insanemesh.ai

From an idea to a reviewable draft.

An independent content automation workflow I built to connect drafting, asset creation and human review.

Purpose → Approach → Trade-off ↗

01 / The career thread · 2018 — present

One decision becomes the foundation for the next.

Jun 2025 — Present

Airtel Digital

Lead Engineer

Technical direction, with hands-on delivery.

At Airtel Digital, I work on shared frontend platforms and reusable UI capabilities across web and mobile. My responsibilities span technical design, implementation, code review and release readiness. Alongside my frontend focus, I use AI-assisted development to contribute to backend integration and React Native experiences.

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05
Jul 2024 — May 2025

MakeMyTrip

Senior Software Engineer II

Making the experience faster—and more dependable.

I worked on consumer travel experiences across web interfaces, with a focus on rendering performance, reusable frontend structure and production reliability. The role combined performance investigation with component development and automated testing, connecting how the interface was built with how reliably it behaved for users.

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04
Oct 2021 — Jun 2024

Paytm

Software Engineer

Evolving established products without losing their users.

I worked on modernising merchant-facing interfaces, moving established workflows toward React and refining the journeys people used to complete transactions. Alongside the interface work, I built analytics dashboards and supported product decisions with clearer visibility into how those journeys were being used.

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03
Jan 2021 — Oct 2021

Sparklin

Frontend Developer

Bringing care to everyday interactions.

I built modular frontend interfaces for banking workflows, where clear navigation and dependable behaviour matter to everyday tasks. My focus was on Angular UI development, component structure and usability, with attention to accessibility and how the experience performed when it first loaded.

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02
Dec 2018 — Jan 2021

Infosys

Systems Engineer

Building the interface—and checking that it holds up.

My career began with frontend development and quality engineering for banking software. I worked on React modules alongside API validation and regression automation, combining interface implementation with checks on the services and behaviours it depended on.

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03 / Thinking in public

The notes behind the work.

All writing ↗

04 / The next chapter

Something worth
building, together.

Let’s talk about the problems, the team and the engineering behind the experience.

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