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
I like the seams between things — engineering, infra, data, and the org chart. The work I enjoy is when a system has to actually be used, by people who have to actually like using it, and the business still has to make money.
What I work on
- LLM systems and semantic search
- Data platforms on Kubernetes and AWS
- Regulated AI in insurance and finance
- Process automation and integration
- GenAI, classical 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
clausecraft
Contract review pipeline — every flag cited, every decision logged
A multi-agent pipeline for contract review. You upload an NDA, DPA, or employment contract in EN or DE; it parses clauses, scores them 0–3 against a public-source playbook (EU SCCs, IAPP, BGB, DSGVO), and drafts tracked-changes redlines. The thing I actually care about: every flag cites the specific playbook clause and the specific contract text it compared. Flags without a citation get downgraded to "unverified" instead of being waved through.
German-Anki
Daily German vocab for ~3 years — 4,000+ active cards
A German vocabulary pipeline on top of Anki. Pulls words out of whatever I am reading or hearing — books, podcasts, work meetings, paperwork from the Kfz agent — and turns them into spaced-repetition cards grouped by frequency, register, and topic. Started as a weekend script; it has been part of my morning routine for three years.
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.
Experience
Software Engineer — Cloud, Data & AI
HDI GroupBuilding AI and data platforms for commercial insurance in a regulated environment.
Working on automation and AI for commercial insurance inside the Advanced Analytics division. Stack is 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.
First employee at a YC SS21 grocery startup that became a unicorn. Built the MVP and the early product and logistics strategy.
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