ayush mittal

Where I've worked

Six years, mostly split between fintech and product teams — with a detour into open source along the way.

Software Development Engineer 2 · Ionic Wealth
2024 — present

Fixed a database connection explosion in our OpenSearch pipeline, cutting usage by ~68%. Led the transaction service and user onboarding platform.

Senior Manager · Kotak Cherry
2023 — 2024

Built Kotak Investments' in-house Mutual Fund platform from scratch, designed its data flow architecture, and led migrations without losing data or uptime.

Software Engineer · Peritus.ai
2022 — 2023

Built the frontend for business client dashboards.

Software Developer · Procol
2020 — 2022

Built the Auction Savings Module, an automated template generator, and the Event Summary feature — all from scratch.

Student Developer · Google Summer of Code, Pitivi
2020

Redesigned the settings and presets menus, and built a Quality Settings widget in Python and GTK.

Open Source Contributor · GNOME Foundation
2019 — 2020

Fixed bugs and built features for the Pitivi video editor.

DevOps Engineer · Bobble AI
2020

Worked with Kafka and Kubernetes, managed AWS services, and set up a working dev architecture on production.

Intern · Matisoft Cyber Security Labs
2019

Studied fileless malware and how to detect and remove it.

Intern · DRDO
2018

Applied CNNs to terrain classification for defense planning.

Programming Intern · Hackr.io
2017

Built an e-commerce site with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AngularJS.

Certifications & areas

Systems Design FastAPI Web Engineering Model Context Protocol (MCP) Deep Learning Kubernetes