About Me

My name is Svapnil Ankolkar and I am a software engineer from San Francisco currently living in New York City 🗽.

I love building things in the 0 → 1 stage, working on products that lots of people use, and playing a part in work that changes the world. I'm currently building Woodside Labs (woodside.sh), where I'm working on building new types of messaging-based applications.

I started my career at Facebook, where I worked on WhatsApp's Erlang Infrastructure to facilitate peer-to-peer payments in India and Brazil. I most recently worked as a software engineer on the Payments team at Modern Treasury, where I built out our bank integrations and cross-border money movement capabilities.

I previously studied Computer Engineering at NC State University. Go Pack!

Aside from writing code and working to become a better software engineer, I also love:

• Capturing beautiful things through picture
• Biking around pretty places
• Drinking good coffee and practicing latte art

I'm interested in building technology that scales and building businesses that make a outsized positive impact on the wider world. I'm proud to have done interesting and impactful work, whether it's designing a IoT-enabled embedded system that talks or building software infrastructure that protects the privacy of hundreds of millions of users on the most used photo-sharing app in the world.