Summary
Anup Tapadia is a founder and seasoned technology leader with over a decade building products that span video games, embedded systems, machine learning, and high-performance distributed architectures. He founded TouchMagix Media to commercialize interactive, coin-operated entertainment products with a global R&D hub in Pune, and consults broadly on wireless mesh networks, stream processing, and network security. His background includes hands-on R&D at Qualcomm and UCSD, and designing large-scale ad-tech and distributed memory systems for startups and enterprises. Anup combines systems-level thinking—creating architectures from scratch—with product instincts that prioritize low-maintenance, ROI-driven solutions. He’s equally comfortable prototyping hardware-software platforms and architecting MapReduce-style data pipelines, a rare cross-disciplinary strength that accelerates early-stage productization. Based in Pune, he also contributes to India’s product ecosystem through iSPIRT, mentoring the next wave of software product entrepreneurs.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Fergusson College
University of California, San Diego
MS Networks and Telecom, MS Networks and Telecom at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune