Hi, I'm Anurag Parida 👋🏽
Software engineer working where cloud, data, and AI meet real-world business processes. Currently building scalable automation and AI-driven systems for commercial insurance at HDI Group. Previously: thesis on LLM-based search at Mercedes-Benz; founding engineer at Zepto (YC SS21), few years freelance software engineering. Always interested in challenging problems — applied AI, regulated industries, and platform engineering.
What I do
📍 Cologne, Germany
Most interested in problems where software engineering, infrastructure, data, and organisational processes intersect — especially where the challenge is making complex systems a joy to use while remaining economically real.
What I work on
- LLM systems & semantic search
- Data platforms on Kubernetes & AWS
- Regulated enterprise AI (insurance, finance)
- Process automation & integration
- GenAI, traditional ML, and orchestration
Languages
Outside Work
I love travelling and video gaming. RPGs with good stories are my favorite, but I play a little PvP FPS from time to time. Techno & intercultural music, food, bouldering, table tennis and waltz too. I often watch Cricket and F1.
Certifications
Projects
German-Anki
Personal tool for daily German vocabulary — used for ~3 years
A German vocabulary pipeline built on top of Anki. Tracks the words I encounter in the wild — books, podcasts, work meetings, paperwork — and turns them into spaced-repetition cards organised by frequency, register, and topic. Started as a weekend script, now part of my daily routine.
ALM8 — Alzheimer’s Mate
Grand Prize · Google Code-In 2018 · flown to Google SF
A virtual caretaker for Alzheimer's patients — Raspberry Pi edge device plus an Android companion app. Targets wandering, motion imbalance, vision, and memory issues using sensors, computer vision, and conversational AI.
Peeku
Built in 48h after the TikTok ban in India
Media sharing platform aimed at universities, built in Flutter on Firebase. Spun up in the 48 hours after the TikTok ban in India to capture a wave of users looking for short-video alternatives.
flo.
Ideated at Code Wars 2019 · student productivity suite
Student life automation — categorise deadlines from text messages, capture and transcribe lectures, recycle old stationery via an automatic pickup-and-pay system. Conceived and built the prototype at Code Wars 2019.
Experience
Software Engineer — Cloud, Data & AI
HDI GroupBuilding AI & data platforms for commercial insurance in a regulated environment.
Building scalable automation and AI-driven systems for commercial insurance within the Advanced Analytics division, on Kubernetes and AWS.
Cologne, Germany, February 2026 - Present
Final Thesis (MB.OS Delivery)
Mercedes-Benz Group AGShipped an LLM-based artifact search tool used in MB.OS planning cycles.
Developed an LLM-based artifact search system using embeddings and clustering to streamline planning and reduce redundancy in corporate software development.
Stuttgart, Germany, April 2025 - October 2025
Intern (MB.OS Delivery)
Mercedes-Benz Group AGBuilt a dev-tracking dashboard for 8,000+ MB.OS colleagues and executives.
Worked in the MB.OS Delivery team for visualising a proprietary data visualisation technique which lets executives make decisions within seconds.
Böblingen, Germany, October 2024 - March 2025
Product and Engineering Lead, Employee #1
Zepto (Kiranakart, YC SS21)Founding team of a YC SS21 startup that became a unicorn grocery delivery platform.
Built the MVP and ground-level product & logistics strategy as the first Employee and CPO for a Y-Combinator startup valued at $3B today.
Mumbai, India, November 2020 - February 2021
Awards
Google Code-In — Grand Prize Winner
GoogleCompleted 42 open-source tasks for the Sustainable Computing Research Group, contributing a new mobile application and Chrome extension. Top prize out of 3,500+ contestants from 78 countries.
2018
International Olympiad in Linguistics — National Bronze Medalist
IIIT HyderabadAttended the national selection camp at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. Ranked 14 out of all national applicants after a series of tests and lectures on computational and societal linguistics.
2019
HackHarvard Global Hackathon — Grand Finalist
Major League Hacking (MLH)Invited by Alibaba Tianchi to present 'ALM8 — Alzheimer's Mate' in China after the project placed in the top 3 globally on Codechef among 500+ open participants. Continued to Harvard during MLH Week 2019.
2018
Education
Bachelors of Engineering in Robotics
Technische Hochschule Würzburg SchweinfurtMember of the Student Representative Body | Startbahn27 Startup Accelerator
2022-2025
High School Diploma
Amity International School, GurgaonFounding Member & 2xPresident @Technology Club | President @Atal Tinkering Lab by Government of India | Student Council (Cyber Captain) | 2x Tech Lead @TedXYouth
2014-2020
Blog
I write sometimes. Read the blog →
Tools & Frameworks
Languages
TypeScript, Python, SQL, Bash, Go (learning)
Cloud & data
Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow, Grafana, PowerBI
ML & AI
PyTorch, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Gemini, LangChain, BERTopic, HDBSCAN, pgvector
Web & product
React, Next.js, Astro, Tailwind, Node, FastAPI, MERN, React Native, PostgreSQL, MongoDB