ANURAG RAI
Software Engineer
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About
I design and build distributed systems that handle millions of daily requests, save millions in costs, and ship to users in minutes instead of days. Full-stack across the board — APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure on AWS — across healthcare, fintech, and logistics.
I build AI-powered products and use AI daily as a core part of how I write code, review PRs, and ship faster.
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Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Dec '22 — Present (3y 5m)Clipboard Health
- Led a team of 3 engineers to redesign criminal background check enforcement for healthcare workers, moving from upfront validation to intent-triggered, asynchronous screening while enforcing strict compliance and safety invariants via layered controls. This reduced ~70% wasted checks, lowering per-active-user costs by ~80% and saving ~$1.5M+ annually.
- Architected and launched over-the-air (OTA) updates for a mobile app, replacing weekly app store releases with CI-driven deployments reducing time-to-user from 7+ days to ~30 minutes. This eliminated 100+ QA hours/week, enabled almost-instant hotfixes and rollbacks, achieved 80% user adoption within 12 hours, and enabled same-day experiment delivery across all product teams.
- Led a team of 2 engineers to architect a workplace reviews microservice (1.4M req/day, 175 peak RPS, sub-10ms p50), replacing a generic rating system with structured reviews, multi-dimensional aggregations, and LLM-powered content moderation. Workers who used reviews saw 50% fewer poor ratings and 49% higher retention per workplace.
- Led a team of 3 engineers to improve marketplace supply quality by building an LLM-driven system that transforms unstructured workplace rules into quizzes for healthcare workers enforced before they book shifts. This increased rule adherence ratings from 63% to 72% with no drop in fill rate.
- Designed and led the evolution of a marketplace reliability system to screen and tier new healthcare workers, screening out workers 2x more likely to no-show while preserving supply through tiered booking access.
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Software Development Engineer 2
Jul '21 — Apr '22 (10m)Amazon
- Designed and implemented a highly available configuration management system for Amazon warehouses, enabling the launch of a greenfield project.
- Developed a deployment workflow to distribute UI artifacts across multiple global regions for a multi-tenant frontend application, ensuring reliable and scalable application rollouts.
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Software Engineer
Dec '18 — Jul '21 (2y 8m)Smallcase
- Developed multiple RESTful microservices from inception to deployment as part of a domain-driven service-oriented architecture and integrated with multiple third-party services—including financial brokerage firms and payment solutions—to support stock transactions for over 4.5 million users.
- Developed and scaled critical services such as a notification system delivering 1 million+ daily notifications and a distributed cron service executing 1,000+ business-critical jobs daily.
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Software Engineer
Aug '17 — Nov '18 (1y 4m)Grey Orange
- Developed an event-driven service with both push-based (webhooks/events) and pull-based (REST API) capabilities providing real-time order lifecycle visibility for warehouse operations.
- Built an internal tool to detect SLA breaches, improving operational efficiency.
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Summer Intern - Google Summer of Code
Apr '16 — Jul '16 (4m)AIMA Code
- Implemented algorithms for First-Order and Propositional Logic.
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