Anuraag G Rao
Software Engineer based in Bengaluru.
Professional Summary
Experienced Software Engineer with 5+ years in backend engineering using Python, Django, and Flask. Skilled at building scalable microservices, optimizing performance, and integrating third‑party APIs. Proficient with CI/CD, AWS/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, and asynchronous workloads with Celery. Known for fast bug resolution, reliability, and navigating complex codebases effectively.
Experience
- Led CI migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions by consolidating workflows, introducing reusable actions, and caching — improving reliability, speed, and developer visibility.
- Expanded the internal tracker system with multiple new commands to streamline operations and diagnostics, adding robust argument parsing, validation, contextual help, and unit coverage.
- Engineered IoT data ingestion from raw device telemetry into TimescaleDB, including time‑series schema design, idempotent batch/stream importers, historical backfills, and monitoring for data quality.
- Refactored core codebase to improve maintainability and performance.
- Built batch payroll processing, removing manual steps and improving UX.
- Launched Digital Signing, Asset & Roster Management, B2B Insurance, Income Tax updates, and Google reCAPTCHA for Web/Android.
- Optimized payroll processing time by 40% with targeted performance work.
- Integrated facial recognition (Kredeye) for secure, contactless attendance.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines), reducing deploy time by 80%.
- Resolved 2× more Jira tickets than peers; improved reliability and retention.
- Developed backend APIs for StaffApp workflows (employee & manager).
- Integrated Karza APIs for InstaCash (salary advance/loan offering).
- Integrated IDFC Bank and Billdesk for the Rewards module.
- Shipped enhancements and critical fixes across payroll, leave, attendance.
- Collaborated with frontend/QA for seamless, regression‑free releases.
- Designed system/API architecture; accelerated development cycles by 25%.
- Built Django backend; improved data retrieval with warehousing.
- Integrated payments, Dunzo delivery, real‑time chat, and SMS systems.
- Owned DevOps on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) and contributed to frontend features.
Technical Skills
Projects
🕹️ Tetra Overflow Ultra
Open-source, mobile-first Tetris clone with a custom Zone mechanic (in progress).
Play →🧾 Catalogue & Inventory Management Tool
Designed and built a catalogue tool, reducing manual product entry by 70%. Automated scraping and processing of 36k+ FMCG items to improve accuracy.
📊 Campaign Analysis Tool
Predictive engine to analyze tweets and profile users by political alliance (95% accuracy). Trained neural networks with TensorFlow and built a visual dashboard.
🎓 Generative AI Mastermind
Technical deep-dives on practical AI/LLM applications and engineering patterns.
Education
Certifications & Achievements
- Modernized CI (CircleCI → GitHub Actions) with reusable workflows, caching, and matrix builds — ~60% faster pipelines and far fewer flaky runs.
- Improved p95 API latency by ~40% via query tuning, targeted indexing, async workloads, and strategic caching.
- Reduced cloud spend by ~30% through container right‑sizing, autoscaling, and lifecycle policies without sacrificing reliability.
- Raised operational reliability to 99.95%+ by introducing SLOs, actionable alerting, Grafana dashboards, and on‑call runbooks.
- Hardened security posture with secret management, SSO, and least‑privilege IAM; contributed to a clean third‑party audit.
Interests
Mentoring junior developers, knowledge sharing, gaming and live streaming, and exploring game mechanics.