Anand Chitipothu
Founder & Trainer at Pipal Academy
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAnand Chitipothu is a technologist and founder with 19 years of experience designing scalable systems, infrastructure, and developer-facing products. He blends first-principles thinking with a focus on simplicity to deliver robust, extensible architectures across backend, frontend, and cloud-native stacks. As founder of Pipal Academy and a longtime trainer, he has upskilled hundreds of engineers from companies like Google, LinkedIn, and VMware through deep-dive courses on topics from Advanced Python to Kubernetes. Anand is an active open-source contributor — his work spans notable projects such as the Internet Archive’s Open Library and BookReader as well as core contributions to web.py and Frappe — reflecting hands-on expertise in Python, performance tuning, and web platform migrations. Having led technical product strategy as a co-founder at Algoshelf (building a Heroku-like PaaS for data scientists) and run his own startup, he now seeks short-term engagements where he can make a high-impact technical contribution. Based in Bengaluru, he combines academic training from IISc and practical engineering to solve complex product and scalability challenges.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Tech, Computational Science, M.Tech, Computational Science at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)B.E., Electrical Engineering, B.E., Electrical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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couchdb
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
website-development10
back-end-development10
python10
css10
databases10
user-interface10
frappe10
front-end-development10
html10
web-framework10
web-development10
database10
send-email9
sendmail9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
webpy/webpy
Sep 2007 - Jul 2020
web.py is a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 412 commits in 13 years
Contributions summary:Anand primarily focused on improving the web.py framework by addressing both functional and structural aspects. Their commits demonstrate a focus on code correctness with the implementation of support for return statements in addition to print statements, and the correction of a sendmail issue. The commits also address unicode compatibility and a fix for the notfound issue.
pythonframeworkweb-framework
internetarchive/openlibrary
Oct 2008 - Mar 2015
One webpage for every book ever published!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1826 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anand primarily contributed to the backend of the Open Library project, as indicated by their involvement in modifying Python files for work and edition processing, and handling database interactions. Their commits focused on implementing features related to author merging, fixing redirect issues, and enhancing the management of loan records within the system. The changes also extended to modifying the database schema and integrating with the Archive.org API for accessing metadata.
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