Anurag Bhandari is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building payment platforms, consumer-facing frontends, and AI-enabled mobile solutions across startups and global organizations. Currently a Technical Lead on Deel’s Employee Experience fintech team, he previously scaled payments engineering at WooCommerce/Automattic—driving initiatives that improved onboarding, conversion, and team velocity. He combines hands-on development (from front-end UI contributions to open-source projects like the popular Web Scrobbler extension) with product-focused architecture work such as headless CMS, microservices, and DB-first billing engines. His background spans R&D and social-impact AI apps (including award-winning accessibility work) through to founding and leading developer communities and Linux distributions. Known for improving observability, reducing time-to-release, and mentoring distributed teams, he blends pragmatic engineering with long-term technical strategy. Based in the Greater Delhi Area, he brings a generalist’s curiosity and a knack for turning research prototypes into production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
St. Joseph's Convent School, Jalandhar
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Anurag primarily contributed to the user interface of the web scrobbler extension, with a focus on displaying user play count data from Last.fm. They implemented features to retrieve and display this information within the info popup. The user added new UI elements and styles to accommodate the play count and integrated the Last.fm brand logo. They also refined the UI, including hiding the play count when zero and adjusting font sizes and margins for improved presentation.
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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Anurag Bhandari - Technical Lead, Engineering at Deel