Anurag Rana

Anurag Rana

Backend engineer and technical architect. 12+ years on high-traffic backend systems - designing them, scaling them, and being on call when they break.

AVP, Technical Architect - Info Edge (naukri.com)
M.Tech, Computer Science - IIIT Delhi, 2015
Backend · Distributed Systems · Architecture · Security

Building a product or a startup? I offer free help with system design, architecture, scalability and security. Let's talk →

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Weekend projects

Built on evenings and weekends, outside work. Hobby projects.

Secure PDF Editor Desktop application

Merge, split, rotate, encrypt and watermark PDFs without the file ever leaving your machine.

GitHub source code

Browser Chrome Extensions

A JSON validator and formatter, a bulk tab muter, and a content blocker later acquired by a healthcare company. and many more chrome extension

All extensions

Finance Calculators India Web app · Android application

Seventeen calculators for Indian personal finance - SIP, EMI, PPF, gratuity, FIRE, old vs new tax regime. Everything runs on your own device. Availabe as web app as well as Android app.

Open the web app Install from Play Store

Books to podcast playlist Tooling

Turns a long PDF into short narrated audio summaries, published as a playlist. Used OpenAI APIs to convert long chapters into small summaries and then converted into Audio podcasts.

GitHub source code Youtube podcast link - Data driven applications Youtube podcast link - Database Internals

Daily Vichar Android application

A quote each morning in English and Hindi, on a card you restyle and share as an image. No login, no ads, works offline.

Download from Play Store

Bank Details Finder India Android application

Branch lookup for any bank in India - IFSC, address, pincode - running entirely offline from Reserve Bank of India data.

Download from Play Store

Hobbies

- 3D printing - functional parts, mostly, and the occasional thing that did not need to exist; prints go up at @layerline.studio.
- A couple of Raspberry PIs running small jobs around the house.
- Books, bought faster than they get read.