--- title: "Anurag Gupta — Software Engineer" description: "End-to-end software engineer across product, infrastructure, and applied AI systems. Scaled systems at a YC-backed startup, built open-source tooling for scientific workflows, and spoken internationally on cloud interoperability." canonical: https://anuragxd.com/ --- # Anurag Gupta — Software Engineer > End-to-end software engineer across product, infrastructure, and applied AI systems. Scaled systems at a YC-backed startup, built open-source tooling for scientific workflows, and spoken internationally on cloud interoperability. ## About Anurag Gupta (anuragxd) is a software engineer based in India, working end to end across product, infrastructure, and applied AI systems. Contact: me@anuragxd.com. ## Work ### Farmako (YC S20) — Frontend Lead *Dec 2021 — Present* 30-minute medicine delivery. Joined as an intern, grew into frontend lead and infrastructure owner. - Scaled organic monthly impressions from 250k to 20M+ in 6 months through frontend architecture, SEO, performance, and CI/CD work. - Built farmako.ai, a production virtual-pharmacist agent on LangGraph serving WhatsApp and in-app users: hierarchical specialist sub-agents handle prescription images, catalog search, cart and orders, teleconsultations, and human handoff. - Architected inventory and ledger systems handling 10M+ operations/month with ~99% stock accuracy. - Migrated ~20 services from EC2 to GKE and legacy auth to a custom Keycloak SPI. - Built an internal operations agent on Vertex AI, surfaced through Slack, unifying support, delivery, purchase orders, and warehouse operations. - Built NHA ABDM-compliant backend infrastructure for India’s digital health ecosystem. Stack: React, Next.js, GKE, Keycloak, LangGraph, Langfuse, Vertex AI, PostgreSQL ### Pacific Analytics — Senior Software Engineer (Contract) *Nov 2024 — May 2026* Platform engineering for an AI-augmented biomedical research platform serving institutional clients. - Owned platform automation with Terraform, Helm, and Ansible across 6–7 environments for 3 clients — cut environment setup from ~1 week to ~1.5 days and routine releases to 5–10 minutes. - Built Lumi, a config-driven agentic framework on the Vercel AI SDK: a primary agent delegates bounded work to scoped subagents over authenticated platform tools, with OPA-backed approval gates, audited tool execution, and persisted sessions. - Built Kubernetes-backed workflow-execution infrastructure for federated bioinformatics workflows used by researchers and scientists. - Designed zero-trust access architecture replacing legacy VPN-based controls; modernized OIDC service auth into token-exchange and federated identity flows. - Led frontend implementation across platform applications. Stack: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Keycloak, OPA, OpenStack, React, Vercel AI SDK ### Elixir Cloud & AAI — Software Engineer (OSS, Part-time Volunteer) *Sep 2021 — Sep 2024* Open-source infrastructure for the international life-sciences research cloud. - Led development of Elixir Cloud Components: 20+ components spanning 8+ GA4GH standards, 5k+ npm downloads. - Architected core infrastructure and API patterns; maintained developer-facing web platforms used across the research cloud ecosystem. Stack: Lit, TypeScript, GA4GH, FastAPI ### Oracle — Software Engineer Intern *Jan 2023 — Jul 2023* Oracle Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) reliability and QA automation. - Fixed defects and optimized high-volume real-time charging flows. - Automated QA workflows via GitLab CI/CD, cutting an estimated ~40 hours/week of manual testing. Stack: Java, GitLab CI, Jenkins ## Projects ### [conops](https://github.com/anuragxxd/conops) GitOps controller for Docker Compose. An Argo CD-style workflow without Kubernetes: continuous reconciliation, drift detection, self-healing, private repo support, plus a Web UI, REST API, and CLI. Used by homelab operators · 34+ GitHub stars ### [Conquest](https://github.com/anuragxxd/conquest) Workflow execution service for scientists. Runs Nextflow, WDL, and Snakemake pipelines on Kubernetes through GA4GH-standard WES/TES APIs. Workflow orchestration, task dispatch, file staging, Postgres state, S3/MinIO storage, and Kubernetes reconcilers — in Go. Open source · GA4GH WES/TES ### [DataSlip](https://github.com/anuragxxd/dataslip) Terminal-first PostgreSQL browser. A query editor and schema browser built with Bun, React, and OpenTUI. Saved connections, row editing, ad-hoc SQL, session restore, release binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows. ### [Popy](https://github.com/anuragxxd/popy) macOS clipboard history in the menu bar. A Swift menu bar utility that stores clipboard history in the macOS Keychain, supports global shortcuts, and ships as a sub-500 KB zero-dependency binary. ### [fikrr.in](https://fikrr.in) AI-powered business analytics. Natural-language database queries with an adaptive knowledge base. ## Talks & open source - **GA4GH Plenary Meeting — Invited Speaker** (2025) — : Represented work on federated systems and cloud interoperability at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health plenary in Sweden. - **Google Summer of Code — Mentor** (2022–2025) — : Mentored open-source contributors across four consecutive years, guiding scoped project delivery, technical trade-offs, and async collaboration. - **Google Summer of Code — Contributor** (2021) — : Contributed to open-source life-sciences infrastructure. ## Recent writing - [Managing Kubernetes from my phone](https://anuragxd.com/blogs/crow-kubernetes-from-your-phone) — Crow is a native SwiftUI iOS client for Kubernetes. mTLS via PKCS#12, generic CRD browsing, WebSocket log streaming, and RBAC-gated mutations. - [End-to-end user identity across a research platform with Istio, OPA, and token exchange](https://anuragxd.com/blogs/zero-trust-auth-istio-opa-keycloak) — How we made the user's JWT travel through every service-to-service call, across Kubernetes and HPC, using mesh-level validation, per-service OPA policies, and chained RFC 8693 token exchange. - [Building a workflow execution service from scratch in Go](https://anuragxd.com/blogs/building-conquest) — Conquest implements GA4GH WES/TES on Kubernetes. Adapter pattern for multi-language support, Postgres state machines, and the file staging problem. - [A filesystem-to-S3 sync daemon that doesn't poll](https://anuragxd.com/blogs/redrush-filesystem-s3-sync) — RedRush uses inotify/kqueue for event-driven uploads to S3-compatible storage. Debouncing, recursive watch registration, and the Kubernetes sidecar pattern. - [Using Gemini to list gemstones on Etsy for my mom](https://anuragxd.com/blogs/gemstone-listing-generator) — Structured output from Gemini's multimodal API, JSON schema constraints, marketplace-safe description generation, and automated product image grids. ## Links - Website: https://anuragxd.com - GitHub: https://github.com/anuragxxd - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anurag-gupta-1201/ - Email: me@anuragxd.com - Developer portal: https://anuragxd.com/developers --- Markdown representation of https://anuragxd.com. Request any page with `Accept: text/markdown`, or append `.md` to its URL. 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