Ankan Poddar

Experience

Five years from SDE1 to Engineering Manager at HyperVerge, now building AI agent integrations at Avoca.

Avoca, Remote, Aug 2026 to present

  1. Deployed EngineerAug 2026 → nowHardening production AI voice and text agents.
    • Build integrations for production AI voice and text agents: an API-based integration for home services and a browser automation for restoration workflows.
    • Design agent workflows to be idempotent and recoverable, hardened against race conditions, duplicate execution, partial API failures and browser-automation failures.

HyperVerge, Bangalore, Jan 2021 to Jul 2026

  1. Engineering ManagerApr → Jul 2026Led a team of 5 and halved lead time to production.
    • Led a team of 5 and halved lead time to production.
    • Built a cloud-agnostic VideoKYC architecture for bring-your-own-cloud deployments.
  2. SDE3Apr 2024 → Mar 2026LLM support automation, security audits and quieter alerts.
    • Built an LLM support-automation system with Freshdesk that cut mean time to resolution by 30 to 40%.
    • Moved alerting to alerts as code, taking noisy alerts from 70% to 10%.
    • Completed 10+ security audits, including RBI and ISO 27018.
    • Built an archival pipeline on Step Functions, Lambda and DynamoDB that brought Redshift CPU from over 90% to 50 to 60%.
  3. SDE2Jan 2022 → Mar 2024Scaled VideoKYC from 1K to 100K+ users a day.
    • Scaled the VideoKYC system from 1K to 100K+ users a day using WebSockets.
    • Migrated the VideoKYC platform to SDK-based integration.
    • Built the RudderStack event architecture and an in-house ETL platform handling 100M+ events a day.
  4. SDE1Jan → Dec 2021Conversion above 90%, infrastructure cost cut by half.
    • Raised conversion from under 70% to over 90%.
    • Cut infrastructure cost by more than 50%.

Stack

languages
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
backend
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • NestJS
  • WebSockets
  • event-driven systems
data
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • DynamoDB
cloud
  • AWS
frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
ai
  • OpenAI APIs
  • voice AI
  • tool calling
  • agentic workflows
  • LLM evaluation

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Education and recognition

education
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Durgapur, 2016 to 2020. CGPA 9.3.
recognition
GATE CSE 2020, All India Rank 20.
recognition
Google Summer of Code 2018 with UC Santa Cruz (CROSS), working on the Popper CLI. 30 merged pull requests.