Anand Pillai
VP Of Engineering at Twerlo
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAnand Pillai is a seasoned engineering leader and software architect with 18 years of experience building high-scale distributed systems from Bangalore. As VP of Engineering and Principal Solution Architect at Twerlo, he is driving the design of a multi-tier CPaaS built on WhatsApp while managing engineering at scale. His career blends hands-on implementation and architecture—spanning secure cloud infrastructure, Kafka-based messaging platforms, encrypted Python deployment for IP protection, and scalable search and analytics systems. He has a track record of turning prototypes into production growth (e.g., scaling Zoko’s messaging 100X and enabling rapid customer acquisition) and mentoring cross-functional teams in DevOps and backend engineering. An OG Python enthusiast, he combines deep systems thinking with practical performance engineering and occasionally implements creative domain-specific tooling and DSLs. Trained as a mechanical engineer at IIT Madras, he brings a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to software architecture and product-focused engineering.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasAmbalamedu High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (67)
switcher10
rotator10
moving-average10
remote-object10
optimisation9
messaging9
monte-carlo9
filesystem9
investment-analysis9
daemon9
junction9
financial9
highlighting8
python8
spotify-api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pythonhacker/harvestman-crawler
Jun 2008 - May 2010
Contributions:96 commits in 1 year 11 months
anvetsu/anviz
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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