About

Anand Kumar R. is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience building products in B2B and B2C segments for early-stage startups. He has interacted with various stakeholders across domains such as AI, Education, and Digital Media. Anand has also worked for two years in a corporate setting as an experienced technologist. Anand is a full-stack developer with expertise in UI development. He has freelanced for a few startups and has run a few pivots and demos to prospective customers. He practices lean principles and effectual entrepreneurship, possesses business and marketing skills, and has the ability to debate on various market trends. Anand is a quick learner with the ability to architect a product, fast prototype, and analyze or test product-market fit. Anand's technical specialties include web development, strong object-oriented and SDLC principles, client-side programming, Javascript libraries and UI frameworks like ReactJS, Typescript, Backbone, FontAwesome, Styled components, Nodejs, and socket.io development. He is also proficient in responsive web designing using bootstrap/tailwind library, HTML5 development (API's, semantic, web accessibility), cross-compatible code, CSS3 and Animations, LESS, SCSS, components/plugins development, MVC, MVP, Domain Driven and Restful architectures and design patterns, TDD, BDD, Extreme Programming, Java Spring Boot, test automation using Qunit, NUnit, Rhino mocks, Watin, StoryQ, Selenium, Jasmine, Karma, Microsoft - C#, Asp.Net,.Net, WCF, WebApi, ADO.NET, NHibernate, Autofac, LINQ, SQL Database Design and Maintenance, DevOps (GIT, GRUNT), code re-factoring and reviews, team leading and building, Agile - Scrum experience, and technology speaking. Anand's passion lies in technology, startups, and entrepreneurship, as well as adventures and traveling. He is an active member of communities and activities such as Startup Weekend, Headstart, and Winner Microsoft Ventures Hackathon. Anand's experience includes working as a Senior Frontend Developer at Lowe's Companies, Inc. and as an R&D Engineer at IPsoft, where he built AI products and worked on a vision to automate end-to-end daily tasks through human supervision and cognitive technologies. He was also the core UI developer in IPsoft's Amelia v3, the world's first digital employee. Anand built a new RPA product and a healthcare