Engineering leader · Toronto, Canada

Anshuman Biswas

I’m VP of Engineering at Elastio. Our teams build ransomware detection, database security, and data protection software.

My work includes hiring, helping engineers and managers grow, deciding what we build, and working through the architecture and code.

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About

A little background

I’ve been building software professionally since 2007. I co-founded a location-search startup, worked on cloud orchestration at IBM Turbonomic, and built an engineering team from scratch at Veeva.

My PhD at Carleton focused on machine learning for cloud middleware performance. At IBM, I also worked on Granite model development and training.

Outside work, I build products I want to use. TaskAI is used by over 100 developers, including developers at Elastio. FlagTGL has paying customers. I’m also working on security for AI agents, reusable tools for coding agents, and audio courses on any topic.

I compose music and build LEGO with my sons.

Work

Career journey

The teams, products, and technical problems I’ve worked on.

2025Security & resilience
Security & resilience
Now
Jan 2025 – Present
Elastio
VP of Engineering
Lead teams building ransomware detection, database security, and data protection. Hire and develop engineers and managers, and work on architecture and implementation.
- Patent-pending database security
- Hiring & team development
- Cloud resilience
2024A team, built from scratch
A team, built from scratch
Mar 2024 – Jan 2025
Veeva Systems
Senior Engineering Manager
Built the engineering team from scratch—hiring and developing engineers and managers to deliver contact-center capabilities in Veeva CRM.
- Built from scratch
- Hiring & coaching
- Enterprise delivery
2017Cloud orchestration
Cloud orchestration
Jul 2017 – Mar 2024
IBM Turbonomic
Senior Engineering Manager
Grew from software engineer to engineering manager to senior engineering manager, building cloud orchestration, performance monitoring, and enterprise integrations.
- AI & cloud
- Distributed systems
- Growing engineering leaders
2016Cloud security
Cloud security
2016 – 2017
Trend Micro
Senior Software Engineer
Built cloud-security systems and tools for online database migrations.
- Cloud security
- Database migration
2012Location search
Location search
2012 – 2014
Nearest.com
CTO & Co-Founder
Co-founded a location-search startup and built its infrastructure on AWS and OpenStack.
- Co-founder
- Product architecture
- AWS & OpenStack
2011Cloud performance research
Cloud performance research
2011 – 2019
Carleton University
PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Researched machine learning for cloud middleware performance optimization. Completed my PhD in 2019.
- Machine learning
- Cloud research
2007Where it started
Where it started
2007 – 2012
Early engineering roles
TCS · Global Travel Solution · 2PiRad
Worked on communication systems at 2PiRad, airline reservation software at Global Travel Solution, and SAP BI at TCS.
- Systems foundations
- Enterprise software

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products

Products

Tools for managing development work, releasing features, and securing AI agents.

Feature management

FlagTGL

A lower-cost LaunchDarkly alternative serving many paying customers, with real-time feature flags and self-hosting control.

Go
React
PostgreSQL
SSE

Visit FlagTGL

AI security

AI Agent Lens

Runtime security and governance for AI agents. Command and tool-call controls, policy enforcement, and auditable decisions bring cloud-security thinking to agentic systems.

Go
SQLite
Security
Governance

Visit AI Agent Lens

AI-native software

TaskAI

AI-native project management used by over 100 developers, including developers at Elastio. Tasks, projects, collaborative context, and tools for coding agents.

Go
React
TypeScript
SQLite

Visit TaskAI Source

Coding-agent orchestration

llm-brain

An open-source hub for coding agents, independent reviews, and shared memory. Coordinates work from assigned issues through implementation and pull requests.

Go
AI agents
Shared memory

Visit llm-brain Source

Infrastructure

Pingrly

HTTP, TCP, and heartbeat monitoring with incident tracking, public status pages, and Slack, email, and webhook notifications.

Go
React
SQLite

Visit Pingrly

Market data

TickrAPI

A market-data API built with a friend to make ticker and historical-price data easier to consume. An active collaboration, currently in development.

Go
REST API
Market data

Visit TickrAPI

Personal finance

Folioworth

A household-aware finance platform for net worth, investment accounting, budgeting, and reporting, with a multi-tenant PostgreSQL architecture.

Go
React
PostgreSQL

Visit Folioworth Source

Publishing

anshumanbiswas.com

My custom publishing system for technical writing, slides, analytics, and editorial control. A place to think about systems and software in public.

Go
PostgreSQL
Markdown

Visit anshumanbiswas.com Source

financial

Finance projects

Software I build for tracking investments and managing personal finances.

Personal trading system

Trading Pod

An automated trading system with walk-forward validation, exposure limits, live-versus-backtest checks, and an audited kill switch. An engineering project, not investment advice or a promise of returns.

Go
SQLite
IBKR API

Visit Trading Pod

Personal investing system

Questrade Reserve

An automation project for disciplined dollar-cost averaging across registered accounts, with operational visibility and risk controls.

Go
Questrade API
SQLite

Visit Questrade Reserve

lifestyle

Learning and everyday life

Adaptive audio courses, fitness, habits, and software for everyday life.

Adaptive audio learning

llm-learn

Turn any topic into an audio course that adapts as you ask questions. Includes synchronized read-along text, quizzes, and mind maps, powered by the reusable go-learn engine.

Go
Local speech
Adaptive learning

Visit llm-learn Source

Personal fitness

LifeAI

My personal-fitness project. A space for exploring how software can support the fitness side of everyday life.

Personal fitness

Visit LifeAI

Habits & fitness

75 Hard

A customizable challenge tracker with daily check-offs, progress photos, activity heatmaps, and calorie logging.

Go
React
SQLite
go-ai

Visit 75 Hard Source

Home & maintenance

Pool

A personal system for logging pool-water tests, tracking maintenance, and understanding the full cost of a pool season.

Go
SQLite
Docker

Visit Pool

Technical reading room

Learn

A quiet reading room for technical books, organized around finishing one chapter at a time, with a local model alongside the text.

Go
Qwik
SQLite
Ollama

Visit Learn

libraries

Libraries and tools

Code behind these projects: AI integrations, authentication, publishing, and backups.

AI infrastructure

go-ai

A common interface for chat and vision models, with ordered provider failover shared across my applications.

Go
LLM
Vision

Visit go-ai

Audio learning engine

go-learn

The embeddable Go engine behind llm-learn, with adaptive lessons, an audio player, and local speech generation and transcription.

Go
Audio
Local models

Visit go-learn

Library

go-wiki

Embeddable Markdown editing with split preview, rich content, and no frontend build requirement.

Go
Markdown
embed.FS

Visit go-wiki

Library

go-draw

An embeddable canvas editor with viewer mode, undo/redo, pan, zoom, and fullscreen support.

Go
Canvas
JavaScript

Visit go-draw

Library

go-blog

An embeddable blog engine with Markdown posts and feeds, without a separate CMS.

Go
Markdown
embed.FS

Visit go-blog

Service

go-email

A self-hosted transactional email gateway with verified domains, API keys, rate limits, and searchable send history.

Go
SQLite
SMTP

Visit go-email Source

Library

go-backup

Scheduled and manual database backups, storage-provider integration, and history for Go services.

Go
PostgreSQL
Scheduling

Visit go-backup

Library

go-login

Reusable Google and GitHub OAuth, invite-aware onboarding, account linking, and JWT handoff.

Go
OAuth
JWT

Visit go-login

Library

go-photo

A shared image-ingest pipeline for decoding, resizing, re-encoding, stripping EXIF, and safe storage.

Go
Images
Security

Visit go-photo

Library

go-api

Personal API tokens, read/write scopes, hash-only token storage, and OpenAPI discovery across products.

Go
Auth
OpenAPI

Visit go-api

Developer tooling

me

A project-runner framework with a common interface for local, Docker, and remote environments.

Shell
CLI
Operations

Visit me

Developer tooling

BuildMe

A self-hosted view of build status and notifications across CI/CD providers.

Go
Qwik
SQLite

Visit BuildMe Source

Agent tooling

OpenClaw Manager

A self-hosted coding-agent control plane with a scoped container workspace and reproducible provisioning.

Go
Ansible
Docker

Visit OpenClaw Manager

Writing

Recent writing

Systems, AI workflows, cloud engineering, and lessons from building software.

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Contact

Get in touch

Have a question about my work or one of these projects? Send me a note.

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Anshuman Biswas

A little background

Career journey

Elastio

Veeva Systems

IBM Turbonomic

Trend Micro

Nearest.com

Carleton University

Early engineering roles

Products

Finance projects

Learning and everyday life

Libraries and tools

Recent writing

Get in touch