Anand Sukumaran
Startup Founder, Software Engineer, Abstract thinker
Co-founder & CTO @ Engagespot (Techstars NYC '24)
Experience
Professional Background
Building and scaling a product notification system is complex and time-consuming. Engagespot provides APIs and SDKs to build delightful transactional notification experiences for your products in minutes. Currently building and architecting the infrastructure platform to handle millions of notifications that bring a smile to every user.
Engagespot is backed by Techstars NYC
Tech - AWS ECS, Docker, RabbitMQ, Node, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, LLMs
Bootstrapped the custom app development company with a team of four in 2018 and scaled the business from $0 to several hundred thousand of dollars in ARR. Worked with startups and fortune 1000 customers like Heatcraft, to architect and build production-ready apps.
Tech - PHP, Node, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, Azure, AR, ML
Researched and prototyped an augmented reality headset combining AI and computer vision to recognize real-world objects and overlay interactive actions. Worked on SLAM and neural network-based object recognition. Project concluded due to hardware constraints at the time. Researched and prototyped an augmented reality headset combining AI and computer vision to recognize real-world objects and overlay interactive actions. Worked on SLAM and neural network-based object recognition. Project concluded due to hardware constraints at the time.
Tech - Augmented Reality, SLAM, ML, CNN
Several years of software development experience as a hobbyist dev, independent contractor, consultant, architect, and team lead for hundreds of clients across different verticals like e-commerce, ed-tech, B2C, B2B, etc, and technologies & platforms including PHP, Node.js, React, Android, C# .NET, AWS, Azure, GCP etc