About
I’m a Lead Software Engineer at Grab in Singapore, on Fulfillment Dispatch — the system that matches supply to demand across Southeast Asia. I’ve been writing software since February 2013, and I intend to keep doing exactly that. Individual contributor, by choice.
The thread through all of it is automation. If I do a thing twice, I’d rather describe it once and let the machine do it. That instinct became infrastructure-as-code, then everything-as-code, and lately it’s become agentic coding — which is the same instinct with a much better executor.
13 years in, that’s still the whole job: make the work describable, then make it run itself.
This site runs on that idea too. Everything below is generated from a single file in the repo:
# The canonical Anurag Ashok.
# This file is the source of truth. The website is one renderer of it.
# Change a fact here, and it changes everywhere it is published.
name: Anurag Ashok
headline: I make code work.
headline_accent: code # the one word a renderer sets in the accent colour
role: Lead Software Engineer
company: Grab
team: Fulfillment Dispatch # matching supply to demand across Southeast Asia
location: Singapore
since: 2013-02 # writing software professionally
track: IC # and staying that way
obsessions:
- automation
- everything-as-code
- agentic coding
previously:
- Singapore Airlines
links:
github: https://github.com/anuragashok
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anurag-ashok/
rendered from packages/profile/me.yaml — the same object that will write my GitHub README and LinkedIn headline.