VP of Engineering · PhD · Toronto

I lead engineering.
I never stop building.

Hands-on leadership at the intersection of AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. I build enterprise B2B products, grow engineering leaders, and stay close to the architecture and code.

Currently VP of Engineering at Elastio. Previously IBM Turbonomic, Veeva, and CTO/co-founder at Nearest.

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About

Technical depth.
A builder’s mindset.

Hands-on engineering executive and former CTO/co-founder building enterprise B2B software since 2007. Leads multiple teams and manages engineering managers while staying hands-on in architecture and development.

Four years of applied AI experience, including IBM Granite model development and training. My PhD research focused on machine learning for cloud middleware performance optimization.

I care about security, clear ownership, and useful software. That means coaching managers and setting direction, while still designing systems and building products myself.

Enterprise B2BAI-native developmentSecurity & resilienceStartup execution

Work

Career journey

Building enterprise software since 2007. Leading through managers without losing touch with the engineering.

2025Security & resilience
Security & resilience
Now
Jan 2025 – Present
Elastio
VP of Engineering
Building cloud-native ransomware detection, database security, and data protection. Leading through engineering managers while staying close to the systems we ship.
- 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
2017AI meets cloud infrastructure
AI meets cloud infrastructure
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, hands-on
Cloud security, hands-on
2016 – 2017
Trend Micro
Senior Software Engineer
Built cloud-security systems and online database migration tools, bringing security and reliability into the engineering of everyday operations.
- Cloud security
- Database migration
2012The startup chapter
The startup chapter
2012 – 2014
Nearest.com
CTO & Co-Founder
Co-founded and built location-search infrastructure. A startup chapter in turning a product idea into systems that work under real demand.
- Co-founder
- Product architecture
- AWS & OpenStack
2011Research alongside the craft
Research alongside the craft
2011 – 2019
Carleton University
PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Studied how machine learning can improve cloud middleware performance. Research that still shapes how I think about distributed systems and practical AI.
- Machine learning
- Cloud research
2007Where it started
Where it started
2007 – 2012
Early engineering roles
TCS · Global Travel Solution · 2PiRad
From communication systems and airline booking to enterprise SAP BI. The foundations of a career spent building software and asking how systems work.
- Systems foundations
- Enterprise software

The thread through it all?
Stay curious. Keep building.

See what I’m building now

The builder’s workshop

Products I keep building

Hands-on work across enterprise security, AI-native applications, feature management, and developer infrastructure. FlagTGL serves multiple paying customers.

Feature management

FlagTGL

A lower-cost LaunchDarkly alternative, serving multiple paying customers. Feature flags with real-time streaming 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

A focused project-management system with tasks, projects, search, and authentication. Built for small teams that value clear workflows and straightforward self-hosting.

Go
React
TypeScript
SQLite

Visit TaskAI 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

Financial systems, built carefully

Personal engineering projects for investing and financial operations, with an emphasis on verification, visibility, and risk controls.

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

Software for the rest of my life

Personal projects for fitness, habits, learning, and home maintenance. LifeAI is the latest addition to the personal-fitness side of my portfolio.

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

Learning

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 I reuse

Small, reusable building blocks behind the products: model integration, authentication, publishing, backups, and operational tooling.

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

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

Notes from the work

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

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Contact

Let’s build
something useful.

For conversations about engineering leadership, enterprise AI, security, cloud platforms, or a project here, send a note.

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I lead engineering.I never stop building.

Technical depth.A builder’s mindset.

Career journey

Elastio

Veeva Systems

IBM Turbonomic

Trend Micro

Nearest.com

Carleton University

Early engineering roles

Products I keep building

Financial systems, built carefully

Software for the rest of my life

Libraries and tools I reuse

Notes from the work

Let’s buildsomething useful.

I lead engineering.
I never stop building.

Technical depth.
A builder’s mindset.

Let’s build
something useful.