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# abhinav anurag on Tal

## Headline

Co\-Founder & CTO @ Schmooze \| Forbes 30u30 2024 \| GSoC 2015 \| BITS Pilani

## About

I am a Forbes 30u30 2024 honoree and the Co\-Founder & CTO of Schmooze, with a deep background in scaling complex backend systems\. My expertise spans event\-driven serverless architectures, big data processing, and machine learning applications\. Having previously led engineering at BitClass and served as a Senior Software Engineer at HERE Technologies, I bring extensive experience in managing high\-load infrastructure and driving technical innovation from early\-stage development to market success\.

## Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

hugging face

llava

openai

Jina AI

## Work experience

Co\-Founder & CTO at Schmooze, Mar 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Lead Backend Engineer at BitClass, 2020 \- 2021 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at HERE Technologies, 2018 \- 2020 · 2 yrs, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Started working as Senior Software Engineer\. Have been working on projects in the domain of Record Deduplication\. Key technologies being used in this tenure: \- Java 8\. Started to explore Java 9\. \- Graph Databases like Neo4j\. \- Graph Processing frameworks like GraphX by Apache Spark\.

Software Engineer at HERE Technologies, 2016 \- 2018 · 2 yrs, Mumbai Area, India, Joined as a full\-time Software Engineer with the organization\. This tenure is used in getting experience with the following key technologies: \- Heavy\-load REST services using Apache Spring and AWS services\. \- Batch processing using MapReduce\(Apache Hadoop\) and Apache Spark for the scale of 300 million records\. \-Event\-driven serverless architecture design and development for a Web Scraping capability to scrape and post\-process URLs for doing activities like NER tagging, Postal Address Extraction using Python, and AWS Services like Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, CloudWatch\. \- Analytical and Search frameworks like ElasticSearch, Kibana Dashboard, Apache SOLR\. \- Deep Learning frameworks like Keras, TensorFlow\.

Software Developer Internship at HERE Technologies, Jan 2016 \- Jun 2016 · 6 mos

Co\-Founder at Vertigo Tree, 2018 \- 2019 · 1 yr, 9Forty is a nightlife discovery platform aimed to address issues of nightlife consumers about discovery and in\-venue utilities using tech\-enabled solutions\.

Chair at ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, May 2015 \- May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo, BITS Pilani, BITS ACM, the BITS Pilani Student Chapter of Association for Computing Machinery\. We aim to instill the spirit of technology and computing among the students of BITS, through the various fields modern Information Technology has developed in\. Here are the responsibilities as the Chair of the association : \- Management of Chapter Finances \- Coordination of Chapter Executive Council \- Assignment of duties to Chapter Executive Council \- Liaison with ACM Head Quarters and Chapter Services \- Liaison with other ACM Chapters \- Liaison with Faculty \- Liaison with Industry \- Handling Chapter Finances \- Handling Financial Audit \- Handling Membership and Alumni

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Intermediate, loyola high school

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