Anish Karandikar is a Founding Engineer and scalable distributed systems expert with 10 years of experience building serverless backends, CI/CD, and cloud-native infrastructure from startup stealth mode to enterprise teams. He specializes in Node.js/Deno-based backends, GraphQL and OAuth integrations, and has shipped production systems on Google Cloud Run, App Engine and Firestore while automating deployments with GitHub Actions and CircleCI. A core maintainer and DevOps/automation contributor to the widely used RealWorld demo app, he has practical experience making documentation, CI pipelines and release scripts self-updating — a detail that speaks to his focus on reproducible, low-friction developer workflows. His background at MathWorks and Google honed a strong testing and tooling mindset across Docker, Puppeteer, and browser-based CI that he brings to product architecture and mentoring. Based in San Jose, he combines deep academic training in engineering with hands-on product delivery and investor-facing technical communication.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering at COEP Technological University
"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:83 commits, 160 PRs, 661 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Anish focused on automating the build, test, and deployment processes of the "realworld" application. They implemented scripts to generate and update the README file dynamically, ensuring that the repository documentation and project rankings reflected the current state. Furthermore, they made changes to the CI/CD pipeline, specifically modifying the `push.sh` script, introducing auto-updates and git pushing, and addressing git configuration issues within the CI context.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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Anish Karandikar - Founding Engineer at Startup in stealth mode