# Anuj B. > Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/anujb Anuj is a full stack software engineer who excels at building high-performance distributed systems and crafting rich user interfaces to deliver scalable and intuitive product experiences. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Airtable Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Airtable is a connected apps platform that aims to lower the floor of software creation. • Built a critical data redaction pipeline to prevent unauthorized data from being synced to web and mobile clients without which the permissions system would not have been secure. • Built a data leasing mechanism to grant temporary write access to users who accidentally lose access to the data due to erroneous edits which helped reduce user frustration. • Built client and server components for a new user experience that simplified the sharing of visual interfaces to aid in the deployment of data across large company audiences. • Worked on improving internal debug tools, reducing flakiness of critical tests, writing benchmarks for perf intensive workloads. ### Software Engineer @ Quip Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Quip is a document collaboration tool helping people communicate more effectively and efficiently. Founded by Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs. Backed by Greylock and Benchmark. Accquired by Salesforce. Powering Slack Canvas today. • Technical lead for a team of 5 building an @mention Quip integration for Salesforce Records. Project involved designing a new data storage model and providing cross platform support with real time syncing capabilities • Built document collaboration features like Version History (historical edits in a document) and Live Paste (linked content across multiple documents). Made significant contributions to core editor areas, including copy paste capabilities, undo redo stack, and document saving pipeline • Automated Mac and iOS build systems using Github Actions and ported a Selenium based UI test suite to a distributed test runner environment. Both projects helped improve developer productivity by over 30 mins ### Summer Fellow, Food+Future coLAB @ IDEO Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A collaboration between IDEO, Target and the MIT Media Lab exploring the creation of new ventures to solve issues and challenges in modern food systems. • Participated in conducting 12 in-depth user interviews and went on 3 immersive industrial visits to gain insight into the complex dynamics of modern food systems • Built 6 concepts using rapid prototyping techniques that focused on education consumers about the impact of their food consumption • Collaborated with experts from Target and the MIT Media Lab to synthesize user research on food systems and consumption habits into common actionable patterns ### Software Engineer @ 99.co Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Singapore, Singapore 99.co is a real estate rental portal that envisions to innovate a cutthroat industry through a fusion of traditional brokerage, technology, design & human emotion and provide users with an honest, transparent and delightful room rental experience. Team of over 40. Operations in Singapore & Indonesia. Backed by Sequoia Capital. • Developed the first version of the iOS application written in Objective-C, and took a leadership role in mobile engineering efforts working closely with a team 4 engineers • As part of an architectural rewrite to split the monolith codebase, migrated multiple backend functions into microservices using Python/Tornado/MongoDB hosted on AWS • Built and launched product features such as a map based search function with time travel as a filter, powerful listing management tools for property agents & realtime instant messaging capabilities ### Technology Consultant @ Teach For India Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Teach For India is a nationwide movement where exceptional graduates and young professional teach in under resourced schools across the country with the goal of eliminating educational inequity. • Built a custom Salesforce module to manage the multi step candidate recruitment and selection process handling a high volume of over 18000+ applicants • Built a ticketing and scheduling application for inspirED, the annual education conference attended by over 500+ people • Built a social network portal to facilitate the discovery of teacher training resources, job opportunities and team connections for over 100+ staff members, 700+ teachers and 1000+ alumni members ### Software Engineer Intern @ Startup Roots Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Singapore, Singapore Startup Roots was a fellowship program for university students giving them the opportunity to work at high potential startups as engineering, design or business interns, and attend weekly mentor sessions by top technopreneurs and venture capitalists. • Worked at "Chalkboard", an early stage startup funded by Neoteny Labs, focused on building a hyperlocal advertising network • Revamped a dashboard interface that let business owners monitor ad performance metrics, manage physical location targets, and create new daily promotions • Developed a Facebook App utilizing the HTML5 Geolocation API, and the Open Graph API, enabling users to discover and share promotions available within their local vicinity ### Project Management Intern @ MIT Game Lab Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A collaboration between the Government of Singapore and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to experiment with the development of games based on academic research findings. • Hired as a game producer to spearhead the development efforts of a cross functional team of 9 individuals including game programmers, sounds designers, and visual artists • Made use of effective scrum methodologies, utilizing physical kanban boards, bi-weekly sprints, daily stand-ups to foster effective team collaboration over a 10 week period • Successfully shipped "Symon", a point and click adventure game, where the game mechanics incorporated logic characteristics found in our dreams • Play "Symon" here - http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/symon.php ### Software Engineer Intern @ PayPal Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Singapore, Singapore PayPal is the worlds largest payment processing company for online merchants. • Hired as one of the first software engineer interns in the Singapore office as part of a 6 month co-op during undergraduate studies • Developed robust testing modules for the integration of the the China Union Payment financial instrument into PayPal's infrastructure • Led the implementation of a locale aware (i18n) user interface repository (modern day storybook) containing mocks for adding region specific banks to a user's PayPal account ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Engineering & Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Engineering in Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Jamnabai Narsee School Jan 1992 – Jan 2005 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anujbheda - Website: http://www.anujbheda.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/anujb JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/anujb/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23