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Anindya Chowdhury
Software Engineer | Scaling Systems & Touching Grass (Sometimes)
নমস্কার / Namaste 🌍
Based in Kolkata 🇮🇳. I build backend systems for a living and spend weekends tinkering with side projects. When I’m not coding, I’m usually watching anime, reading manhwas, losing Valorant matches 🎮, or wandering through history and politics rabbit holes.
Writing
View all postsStep-by-step guide to deploying a Golang backend as an Azure Function using a custom runtime.
Projects
View all projectsSamvad News Harvester is a tiny Go service that fetches news links from provider feeds, enriches them with lightweight metadata, and fans structured events out to queues or webhooks. It is intentionally small, pluggable, and welcoming to new contributors. The harvester only uses public sitemaps, or link lists, and never fetches or stores full article bodies.
Indiclang Fraud Shield is a lightweight, multilingual scam detection assistant for WhatsApp and Telegram. Built for AI in Action Hackathon.
Experience
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Software Engineer Videoverse
- Architected and scaled an event-driven service that enables broadcasters like Paramount+, NRK, and Sportway to ingest live streams and access metadata in real-time through webhooks and partner APIs. Handles ~50K events per week across 10K+ clips. - Built the partner-metadata orchestration layer that normalizes, transforms, and ships AI-generated data in provider-specific formats. Adopted by ANOC, SailGP, and Grabyo to reduce integration friction and improve delivery reliability. - Developed the Publisher Service with integrations for Dropbox, OneDrive, Slack, and Storyteller, enabling automated clip delivery for partners including Wimbledon, FIFA+, and Formula E. - Led development of the match-schedule ingestion pipeline across both push (partner-initiated) and pull (platform-initiated) modes. Scaled to 100+ tournaments, 1,000+ teams, and 15K+ players for TV2, FloSports, and NCAA. - Contributed to frontend revamp and StatsPerform integration in the real-time datafeed pipeline. - Introduced and led on-call and RCA practices, cutting production incidents by ~80% within one quarter. - Stack: NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, SNS, SQS, Lambda, MongoDB.
Software Engineer I Lets Dive
- Built a webhook-based calendar sync system for Google and Outlook, enabling real-time tracking of meetings and powering automatic AI-generated summaries and reminders. - Integrated Google Docs, ClickUp, Notion, and HubSpot to automatically publish meeting summaries post-call, contributing to a ~25% increase in user engagement. - Designed and built a Telegram-based AI voice chatbot using LLMs (Pygmalion-7B, Mythalion-13B) and ElevenLabs, with Supabase, AWS ELB, and Lambda handling message flow and voice delivery. - Revamped the homepage with a calendar-style UI and launched features like Year in Review and guest mode, improving usability and retention for collaborative teams. - Stack: Python (Django), MariaDB, Redis, Supabase, AWS Lambda, EBS, SQS, React.js, Redux, Slate.js
Reading List
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Clean Architecture
Y'all should read this book even if you do not like his tweets.
Reading
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
A lot of the points now might feel like public knowledge, but this book was one of the first to systematically analyze how big tech companies manipulate personal data for profit. For better or worse this information is going to shape your thoughts on privacy and the digital economy.