About Me
👋🏼 I'm Mayank Bansal (मयंक बंसल)
In my free time, you can find me mentoring, teaching, cooking or playing my guitar. I hope to use my interdisciplinary skills to help build a better and sustainable future.
Currently an engineer at Convoy, a freight and logistics company that wants to transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste.
10 Facts About Me
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, a 25 year-old Software Engineer and self-taught Designer that loves to design and build products that solve challenging world-scale problems with careful user research, design, planning and strong engineering principles. I have a sharp eye for pixel-perfect detail.In my free time, you can find me mentoring, teaching, cooking or playing my guitar. I hope to use my interdisciplinary skills to help build a better and sustainable future.
Currently an engineer at Convoy, a freight and logistics company that wants to transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste.
10 Facts About Me
- Born in Bengaluru
- Personality type: INF-J
- Left-handed (yes, ink smears everywhere)
- Went to a beautiful boarding school
- I own 27,500+ Lego
- Webstorm > VS Code (fight me)
- Chai > Coffee (am I even a Seattleite?)
- Have an excellent credit score
- The U.S. government thinks I'm "extraordinary"
- I play percussive fingerstyle guitar 🎸
Posts
Sometimes, I write about social issues, personal life stories, technology and projects I've worked on. Here are a few highlights:
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Education
2017 - 2018, Chicago, Illinois
Illinois Institute of Technology
3.65/4.00 GPA, B.S. Computer Science
Cum Laude, Dean's List, Scholarship, Finished Early
2014 - 2016, Manipal, Karnataka
Manipal University
B.S. Computer Science
Two Year Transfer
Experience
2022 - Present
Stealth Startup
Software Engineer III
Seattle, Washington
Seed Stage
2019 - 2022
Convoy, Inc.
Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington
Series D
2018 - 2019
Legalpad, Inc.
Software Engineer + Designer
Seattle, Washington
Series A
2015 - 2018 (Part Time)
Mitraz Financial
Software Engineer + Designer
Chicago, Illinois
Acquired by Scripbox
2016 - 2017 (Part Time)
Sadgi Creative
Co-founder, Tech Lead
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Defunct
Projects
Here are some side projects / code samples I've worked on. Some of these projects may not have aged well, but hey... engineering involves an incremental learning process.
Immigration Wizard
React, Rails
(Production App)
Interior Management Dashboard
AngularJS + Node.js + Neo4j
(Production App)
Micro-savings Platform
Angular + JQuery + Flask
(Hackathon) 24 hours
Technical Skills
Though I'm a Full Stack Engineer, my time is split 60/30/10 frontend/backend/design. I like to work on high quality experiences from user research to launch.
Frontend
React, Svelte, Angular
Next.js, SvelteKit, Rails
React Native
Apollo Client, Redux, Recoil
Framer Motion, Webpack
Emotion, Styled
Backend
Node.js + Express
GraphQL, REST, RPC
Apollo Server
Postgres, MySQL/SQL
MongoDb, Firebase
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
C/C++, Java
C#, RobotC, Ruby
Testing / CI
Mocha
Jest
Enzyme
Cypress
CircleCI
Prototyping
Figma, FigJam
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Sketch + Principle + Origami
Volunteer Work
I spend about 10-12 weekends a year volunteering for STEM programs. It's a great way to inspire kids to become engineers and work on the worlds toughest problems.
FIRST Robotics
Over 500+ hours of event volunteering at FTC, FRC & FLL as Lead Scorekeeper, Field Management and Judge at the city, state, and world championship level. Former technical mentor for Illinois Tech Perspectives Math & Science Academy FRC Team 2709 - Iron Wolves (focus on robot programming, automation and game strategy) & multiple FLL teams.
https://firstinspires.org
Over 500+ hours of event volunteering at FTC, FRC & FLL as Lead Scorekeeper, Field Management and Judge at the city, state, and world championship level. Former technical mentor for Illinois Tech Perspectives Math & Science Academy FRC Team 2709 - Iron Wolves (focus on robot programming, automation and game strategy) & multiple FLL teams.
https://firstinspires.org
Google CS First
Google CS First is an 8-week after-school computer science program for elementary schools. It uses MIT's Scratch programming language to teach basic CS principles with the help of short modules each with different focus and objective.
https://csfirst.withgoogle.com
Google CS First is an 8-week after-school computer science program for elementary schools. It uses MIT's Scratch programming language to teach basic CS principles with the help of short modules each with different focus and objective.
https://csfirst.withgoogle.com
Contact Me
Whether you want to hire me, collaborate, get some advice or just chat about mutual interests, please reach out!
+1 (206) 588 — six three eight seven
hi@manky.me
If you found my help useful, you can buy me coffee ☕️.
Handmade with in Seattle, WA using Next.js 12 and
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