Akanksha Mittal

Overview

Currently at Forge Studio, where I lead web frontends with a team of 29. Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Asian Paints and Qualcomm. Most at home with CSS and Next.js. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Dec 2025 - Present
   Forge Studio · 11 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on web by 35% in two quarters.
   • Cut the main bundle by 48% and got LCP under 1.2 seconds.
   • Shipped 29 launches on the web team without a rollback.
2. Staff Frontend Engineer

   Sep 2024 - Dec 2025
   Asian Paints · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on web by 45% in two quarters.
3. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2021 - Sep 2024
   Qualcomm · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on web by 33% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the Python service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
4. Frontend Engineer

   Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
   Paytm · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 365ms to 59ms.
   • Brought on-call pages for web down from 23 a week to 4.
5. Frontend Engineer

   Oct 2015 - Sep 2018
   PwC · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Brought on-call pages for web down from 16 a week to 4.
   • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 644ms to 86ms.

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Education

1. IIT Guwahati

   B.Tech, Computer Engineering
   2011 - 2015