Backend Engineer with 8 years of experience delivering scalable systems across storytelling, SaaS, e-commerce, fintech, and renewable energy.
Co-architected Nojoto, a multilingual video storytelling platform, scaling it from 10K to 10M users and $2M in revenue while reducing infrastructure costs by 30%. Built production Elasticsearch infrastructure handling 225M documents with sub-50ms latency, delivering 30× performance improvement and powering user and content discovery features.
Led a team of 8 engineers, optimizing systems that processed 200K+ daily messages and managed 50TB of media, driving system design, performance optimization, and on-time delivery.
Recently focused on AI-first solutions, building RAG systems with semantic search, LLMs, and GenAI automation tools. Strong background in distributed systems, cloud platforms, search infrastructure, and data-heavy architectures.
🔹 Advised 50+ startups on MVP development, engineering team building, and go-to-market strategies, leading teams through technical planning, code reviews, and production rollouts.
🔹 Co-architected Nojoto, scaling it to 10M+ users, 2M creators, ₹12Cr ARR, raising ₹26Cr funding, recognized by Google (#WeArePlay), MeitY's Top 100 Startups 2022, and YourStory Tech30.
🔹 Built and architected innovative solar monitoring IoT software for NISE & NIWE, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy - a non-intrusive IoT system for real-time data capture, cloud processing, and automated fault detection, featured in IET Electronics Letters.
📚 Research Paper: [ https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/el.2017.0694 ]
🔹 Pursuing a Master of Technology in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning from BITS Pilani (Distance Learning), combining academic insights with hands-on industry experience.
🔹 Currently consulting & developing AI tools for SMEs, focused on automation, predictive analytics, and intelligent chat interfaces.
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FAISS, BM25, Flan-T5, RRF, Advanced RAG pipeline combining dense + sparse retrieval with automated evaluation (MRR, NDCG, BERTScore) on 500 Wikipedia articles. |
LangChain, OpenAI, Vector DB, Production-ready RAG system for enterprise knowledge retrieval with customizable document ingestion pipeline and hybrid search. |
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GPT-4o, Qdrant, TTS, Voice-enabled AI assistant using RAG to answer documentation queries with natural speech interaction. |
OpenAI, Streamlit, yFinance, Financial analysis tool for comparing Indian stocks with real-time data, sector insights, and analyst recommendations. |
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LangChain, Agent Framework, LLMs, Collaborative AI system for automated research and information synthesis from diverse sources. |
Explore my full repository collection including IoT, e-commerce, and backend systems. |
- Led technical architecture scaling from 10K to 10M+ users with 2M+ creators and $2M ARR
- Built advanced AI/ML systems for content recommendations and moderation
- Optimized cloud infrastructure reducing costs by 30% while improving performance by 60%
- Twice awarded the Jeff Bezos Award for People & Leadership
- Developed monetization systems growing revenue and increasing organic traffic by 70%+
- Led team of 3-4 developers delivering 10+ e-commerce projects with faster timelines
- Managed payment integrations and AWS solutions improving client revenue by 25%
- Provided technical consulting for 50+ clients designing responsive e-commerce solutions
- Built AI-ready solar monitoring platform for government agencies (NISE & NIWE)
- Developed real-time dashboards with automated data collection and analysis
- Designed scalable architecture supporting future ML integration for predictive maintenance
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Master of Technology (Work Integrated Learning Programme), Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning — BITS Pilani (Ongoing)
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Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering — United Group of Institutions (2012–2016)
- From MySQL Hell to Elasticsearch Heaven: How We Built Instagram-Like Search – A deep dive into scaling to 200M documents and 10M followers with sub-100ms search.
- Nojoto System Design: Crafting a Scalable Storytelling Platform – Architecting a platform for millions of users across multiple media formats.
- Mastering Elasticsearch: Unleashing the Power of Search – Technical guide on implementing efficient search capabilities in data-driven worlds.
- Leveraging FFmpeg in Content-Based Platforms with Python – A detailed technical guide on video/audio processing for modern platforms.
- AI Agent Deployment for Company-Wide Automation – Strategies for building enterprise-grade AI agent systems for departmental orchestration.
- How to Stay Valuable as an Engineer in the AI Era – Thought leadership on shifting focus from "just coding" to system reliability and crisis management.
- Exploring the Top Django Projects on GitHub – Curated inspiration for Python developers leveraging the Django framework.
- Connect PHP to Google BigQuery – Implementing cloud data warehouse integrations using Google Cloud libraries.
- Maximizing Your Weekend: How to Plan for Productivity and Enjoyment – Frameworks for maintaining high performance and mental clarity outside of work.
- Email: surya13493@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anandsuraj
- Medium: (https://medium.com/@surya13493)
- Substack: ([https://medium.com/@anandsuraj]
- Location: Gurugram, India