Anand Chowdhary
Head Of Product & Founding Team at Sycamore
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAnand Chowdhary is a serial founder, product leader, and engineer who builds mission-driven tech—from accessibility tools to autonomous AI platforms—and currently heads Product at Sycamore after a recent exit from FirstQuadrant. He combines hands-on engineering (notably back-end work on SaaS frameworks and open-source projects like Uppload) with executive experience as founder/CTO/CPO across multiple YC-backed startups and an award-winning accessibility company. Anand has a track record of scaling products to enterprise customers and strategic exits, raising venture rounds, and running cross-functional teams. An open source advocate and three-time GitHub Star, he blends technical depth, design sensibility, and investor/mentor roles across global startups. Based in the Bay Area, he also speaks internationally on technology and entrepreneurship and has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and major tech publications.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Creative Technology, Bachelor of Science, Creative Technology at University of TwenteSummer Batch 2021 (YC S21), Summer Batch 2021 (YC S21) at Y CombinatorHigh School, Science, High School, Science at The Mother's International SchoolMinor, Global Engineering Education Exchange, Minor, Global Engineering Education Exchange at Santa Clara University
English, Hindi, Dutch, French
Github Skills (18)
stripe10
api-design10
amazon-elasticsearch10
typescript10
nestjs10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
nodejs10
typescripts10
elasticsearch-api10
rate-limiting9
aws-sdk9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
staart/api
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
🏁🛠️ SaaS backend & API framework based on @nestjs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 278 commits, 282 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Anand primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the SaaS API framework. Their work included updating dependencies such as the AWS SDK and Stripe, as well as introducing new features like a billing portal link using Stripe. Additionally, they implemented a custom rate limiter and integrated ElasticSearch logging, enhancing the system's monitoring capabilities. Furthermore, the user added functionalities to support features like user merging.
apistripenestjsadminsaas-startups
Karuna2020/status
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:200 pushes in 6 months
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