About Me
👋🏼 I'm Mayank Bansal
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.
Facts
my-YUNGK BUN-sel
, 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.
Facts
- Born in Bengaluru
- Personality type: INF-J
- Left-handed (yes, ink smears everywhere)
- Went to a beautiful boarding school
- I own 20,000+ Lego
- Webstorm > VS Code (fight me)
- Chai > Coffee (am I even a Seattleite?)
- Have an excellent credit score
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
2019 - Present
Convoy, Inc.
Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington
2018 - 2019
Legalpad, Inc.
Software Engineer + Designer
Seattle, Washington
2015 - 2018 (Part Time)
Mitraz Financial
Software Engineer + Designer
Chicago, Illinois
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
Frontend
React, Svelte, Angular
Apollo + GraphQL
Framer Motion
JavaScript
Emotion, SASS/CSS
Next.js, Rails
Mocha / Jest, Cypress
Backend
Node.js + Express
GraphQL, REST
Postgres, MySQL/SQL
MongoDb, Firebase
Programming
TypeScript
Python, C/C++, Java
C#, RobotC, Ruby
Mobile
Android
React Native
Prototyping
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
Sketch + Principle + Origami
Figma
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
Instagram
A peak into my world
There used to be an embedded Insta feed here. I need to update it to use Facebook's GraphQL API at some point.
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