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She learned Haskell to fix joins and Parquet reads in DataHaskell dataframe.","High ownership with proof: at Zenact she owned the runtime infrastructure for AI-agent sandboxes end to end — OpenTelemetry to Axiom observability, CI with multi-arch Docker builds, customer-data encryption in an isolated AWS account (KMS + JWE), and a QA workflow runner — and cut sandbox worker bootstrap from 12s to 3s.","Works across the stack and across languages: Go, Ruby, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Haskell, C++; systems work on Firecracker, QEMU, and Cloud Hypervisor; React and React Native, Node.js, Next.js, Rails, FastAPI, Docker, AWS, OpenTelemetry, Temporal, Mediasoup, Socket.io, GitHub Actions.","Gets things done in serious open-source projects: 28 merged or open pull requests across urunc (a CNCF sandbox project: a container runtime for unikernels), Consul Democracy (the citizen-participation platform used by city governments such as Madrid), cilium.io (website of Cilium, a CNCF graduated project), DataHaskell dataframe, and p4lang (the P4 programming-language consortium). Three hackathon wins. Every claim on this site maps to a shipped artifact with a link.","Strong references: the takeUforward founder (1.5M+ user platform) would rehire her 'in a heartbeat'; a Consul Democracy core maintainer credits her for the two most-requested features.","Bottom line for a team: she will be an asset to whoever she works with. She takes ownership of production infrastructure, learns the stack the team already has, ships without hand-holding, and leaves systems more observable and better tested than she found them."],"stack":{"languages":["Go","TypeScript","JavaScript","Python","Ruby","Haskell","C++"],"infra":["Docker","AWS (KMS, IAM, isolated accounts)","OpenTelemetry","Axiom","Temporal","GitHub Actions","Blacksmith","Firecracker","QEMU","Cloud Hypervisor","unikernels"],"backend":["Node.js","Ruby on Rails","FastAPI","Socket.io","Mediasoup","pub/sub","SAML","OIDC","RBAC"],"frontend":["React","Next.js","React Native","Expo","browser extensions (Plasmo)","Tailwind CSS"],"ai":["agentic systems","MCP","Strands","Gemini and other LLM APIs"]},"highlights":["Owns production infrastructure, not only features: at Zenact she ran observability (OpenTelemetry to Axiom), CI (multi-arch Docker builds on Blacksmith), and customer-data security (KMS + JWE in an isolated AWS account) for AI-agent sandboxes and device workers in production.","Measures her work: cut sandbox worker bootstrap from 12s to 3s; 60% engagement lift on takeUforward, a coding platform with 1.5M+ users; 200+ daily orders through the Mazinda dispatch backend; 100+ concurrent video users at I am Better than me.","Learns what the job needs: had never written Ruby before Consul Democracy, learned Ruby on Rails on the job, and shipped enterprise single sign-on (SAML and OIDC with per-tenant configuration) that city governments now run.","Low-level systems engineering: built the VMM control-socket layer in urunc (Go) for Firecracker, QEMU, and Cloud Hypervisor, including API boot modes, graceful shutdown, and the guest-side handler.","Contributes upstream in serious projects: 28 pull requests across urunc, Consul Democracy, cilium.io, DataHaskell dataframe, and p4lang; every PR and its status is listed at https://github.com/Anamika1608/open-source-contributions.","Trusted by the people she worked for: rehire-in-a-heartbeat recommendation from the takeUforward founder and a public thank-you from a Consul Democracy core maintainer."],"work":[{"id":"zenact","role":"Software Engineer","company":"Zenact","stack":["Go","Python","AWS","Temporal","Docker","OpenTelemetry","Axiom","Blacksmith","GitHub Actions"],"companyUrl":"https://zenact.ai","period":"Feb 2026 — May 2026","summary":"Runtime infrastructure for AI-agent sandboxes: observability, security, and CI for sandbox and device workers.","description":["Integrated an end-to-end OpenTelemetry + Axiom pipeline (OTLP collectors, Go, Docker, AWS, Temporal) capturing logs and traces for sandbox and device-worker runtimes.","Optimized sandbox worker bootstrap from 12s to 3s by removing blocking OTel readiness waits and pre-warming E2B binaries.","Shipped Blacksmith multi-arch Docker builds in the CI/CD pipeline and automated QA assertion and report generation.","Implemented end-to-end customer data encryption in an isolated AWS account with KMS and JWE, enforcing a strict data boundary no internal staff can cross.","Engineered a QA workflow builder that composes and runs ordered test-suite sequences, triggered from GitHub pull requests and token mentions."]},{"id":"tuf","role":"SWE Intern","company":"takeUforward","stack":["Go","C++","GDB","Docker","React","TypeScript"],"companyUrl":"https://takeuforward.org","period":"Jun 2025 — Aug 2025","summary":"Developer tooling and learning UX for a 1.5M+ learner coding platform.","description":["Led the POC for Debugger Mode: a VS Code-like C++ execution engine on Go and GDB, giving learners breakpoints and step-through inside the browser.","Rebuilt a complex side panel in React and TypeScript into an extensible component the team can iterate on quickly, and introduced Focus Mode; engagement went up 60%."]},{"id":"mazinda","role":"SDE Intern","company":"Mazinda","stack":["React Native","Node.js","Express","MongoDB","GPS","Maps","push notifications"],"companyUrl":"https://mazinda.com","period":"Dec 2024 — Feb 2025","summary":"Delivery-partner app, dispatch backend, and admin tooling for 200+ daily orders.","description":["Developed the order-assignment backend (Node.js) with dynamic reassignment on partner rejection, real-time GPS tracking, and background alarm notifications that fire with the app closed.","Added a resumable onboarding flow to the React Native partner app and an admin dashboard to onboard 50+ delivery personnel, monitor live orders, and process withdrawals."]},{"id":"iabtm","role":"Full Stack Developer","company":"I am Better than me","stack":["Node.js","Socket.io","Mediasoup","pub/sub","Cloudinary","Twilio","LLM APIs"],"companyUrl":"https://iambetterthanme.com","period":"Sep 2024 — Dec 2024","summary":"Backend, realtime, and auth for a personal-growth community product.","description":["Created an LLM-driven agentic flow that generates a personalised growth path per user, and a pub/sub notification system across the platform.","Shipped realtime video collaboration on Mediasoup (SFU) and Socket.io for 100+ concurrent users, plus auth with RBAC and two-factor login via Twilio."]}],"openSource":[{"id":"urunc","stack":["Go","Firecracker","QEMU","Cloud Hypervisor","unikernels","Unix sockets","QMP"],"project":"urunc","projectUrl":"https://github.com/urunc-dev/urunc","title":"Lifecycle management of sandbox monitors","description":"Control-socket layer for Firecracker, QEMU and Cloud Hypervisor in a Go unikernel container runtime: API boot modes, graceful shutdown, and the guest-side handler.","prs":7,"anchor":"urunc"},{"id":"consul-democracy","stack":["Ruby on Rails","SAML","OIDC","RSpec","Capistrano"],"project":"Consul Democracy","projectUrl":"https://github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy","title":"SAML and OIDC single sign-on","description":"Integrated SAML and OIDC authentication in Ruby on Rails with multi-tenancy support for a citizen-participation platform used by city governments; 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She asks sharp questions, ships thoughtfully, writes maintainable code, and balances user experience with engineering rigor. I would rehire Anamika in a heartbeat.","name":"Raj Vikramaditya","role":"Founder, takeUforward · ex-Google, Amazon","href":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/anamikaaggarwal12/details/recommendations/","hrefLabel":"LinkedIn"},{"text":"Anamika is a talented programmer with a passion for learning new things and remarkable initiative and communication skills. Thanks to her, we finally got SAML and OpenID Connect support in Consul Democracy, which were two of the features people had been requesting the most.","name":"Javi Martín","role":"Core maintainer, ","org":"Consul Democracy","orgUrl":"https://consuldemocracy.org/"}]}