Summary
Anindya Bhandari is a seasoned software engineer and hands-on engineering leader with nine years of experience spanning software, data science, cloud infrastructure, and security, currently building distributed compute platforms at Citadel. He is a GCP and GKE expert who engineers cloud-native systems for petabyte-scale data, focusing on reliability, performance, and end-to-end efficiency. Throughout his career he has led cross-domain teams—from software engineering and data science to platform and security—and has held impactful IC and management roles at Hidden Road, Millennium, Two Sigma, and Adobe. He earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, underpinning a strong technical foundation across hardware and software. Anindya is passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge, and he brings a practical, hands-on approach to distributed systems that often sparks productive conversations and mentoring.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, Computers, High School, Science, Computers at St. James' School, Kolkata
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.972/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.972/4.0 at Columbia University in the City of New York
Bachelor’s Degree (Hons), Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, 8.7/10, Bachelor’s Degree (Hons), Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, 8.7/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur