Anish Chakraborty
Founding CTO at Coding With Anish
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolAnish Chakraborty is a founding CTO and seasoned software leader with a decade of experience building scalable data and backend systems, most notably at Spotify where he engineered high-throughput event hydration services and helped cut storage costs by 80%. He blends product-first engineering with technical leadership—mentoring engineers, hiring, and advising startups on cloud strategy, distributed systems, and developer tooling. Anish is an active open-source contributor (notably to Scio and Encore) with deep expertise in Scala, Java, Go, and data processing on Google Cloud. Based in Stockholm, he now focuses on psychometrics and AI at Trudy while continuing to mentor through Coding With Anish and consult for early-stage teams. Beyond code, he enjoys prototyping, prompting agents, and a playful curiosity that drives rapid experimentation and pragmatic system design.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering at Heritage Institute of Technology - KolkataHigh School Physical Sciences, High School Physical Sciences at Julien Day School
Bengali, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
bigquery10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
typescript10
bloom-filter10
scala10
go10
api10
typescript-types10
data-processing10
golang10
typescripts10
backend10
data-engineering9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spotify/scio
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
A Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 44 commits, 62 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anish primarily contributed to the Scio project by adding and modifying core functionalities related to data processing and manipulation within the Apache Beam framework. Their work included implementing features like distinctByKey, sparse joins, and sparse lookups, enhancing Scio's capabilities for handling large datasets efficiently. Furthermore, they refactored existing code related to Kryo serialization and Bloom Filter aggregations, improving the performance and reliability of the library. These contributions directly support Scio's purpose as a Scala API for data processing on Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Beam.
apidatabeambatchbigquery
encoredev/encore
Dec 2023 - May 2024
Open Source Development Platform for building robust type-safe distributed systems with declarative infrastructure
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Anish primarily focused on enhancing the project's API and backend functionality, particularly related to authentication and client-side code generation. Their work included adding support for promises within the authentication mechanisms for both TypeScript and JavaScript clients. The user also refactored code to improve efficiency, specifically when handling asynchronous authentication data generation. The commits demonstrate an understanding of API design and client-side code generation.
gcpserverlessdevelopment-platformengineaws
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