Anshuman Biswas

VP of Engineering

AI / Cloud / Cybersecurity

Toronto, Canada | [email protected] | +1 647-982-9354

biswas.me | LinkedIn | github.com/anchoo2kewl

About

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.

Skills

Leadership & Strategy

Building teams from scratch, hiring, manager development, multi-team leadership, strategy, roadmaps, delivery

AI & Engineering

Granite model development, AI-native applications, Go, React, TypeScript, distributed systems

Cloud & Security

AWS, Azure, database security, ransomware detection, security automation, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD

Education

PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Carleton University, 2019

Research: Machine learning for cloud middleware performance optimization.

MSc, Computer Science

University of Calcutta, 2009

BSc, Computer Science

University of Calcutta, 2007

Experience

VP of Engineering @ Elastio

Jan 2025 - Present

Lead ~40 engineers through multiple engineering managers; hire and develop teams building cloud-native ransomware detection and data protection.
Developed patent-pending database-security technology for detecting database encryption and corruption.
Architect malware-scanning engines and AI-powered anomaly detection across enterprise backup and recovery workflows.
Scale AWS and Azure security infrastructure for enterprise platforms with 99.99% uptime SLAs.

Senior Engineering Manager @ Veeva Systems

Mar 2024 - Jan 2025

Built a ~15-engineer organization from scratch, hiring and developing engineers and managers.
Owned the full product lifecycle and delivery of contact-center capabilities in Veeva CRM for global enterprise deployments.

Senior Engineering Manager @ IBM Turbonomic

Jul 2017 - Mar 2024

Led ~70 engineers across global teams; managed multiple engineering managers delivering cloud orchestration, monitoring, and enterprise integrations.
Applied Granite LLMs to enterprise threat identification and automated code analysis.
Reduced onboarding time 60% through DevOps automation.

Progression: Senior Software Engineer; Engineering Manager (2018); Senior Engineering Manager (2021).

Senior Software Engineer @ Trend Micro

2016 - 2017

Built cloud-security systems and online database migration tools enabling zero-downtime updates.

CTO & Co-Founder @ Nearest.com

2012 - 2014

Architected fault-tolerant, autoscaling location-search infrastructure on AWS and OpenStack serving millions of queries.

Earlier: Cloud research, Carleton (2015-2016); Tata Consultancy Services (2009-2012); engineering roles (2007-2009).

Selected hands-on work

FlagTGL — Built a lower-cost LaunchDarkly alternative for feature management, serving multiple paying customers.
AI Agent Lens — Built runtime security and governance for AI agents, with command/tool-call controls and auditable decisions.
TaskAI / go-ai — Built AI-native project management and reusable Go tooling for multi-provider LLM integration and failover.
LifeAI — Personal-fitness project at lifeai.cc.