Hire Anurag C. - Forward Deployed Engineer

About anurag

I'm Anurag — a Forward Deployed Engineer and Founding Engineer at Debales AI. I build AI products. The agents that talk to customers, the integrations that put AI inside the tools merchants already work in, the systems that keep all of it running when traffic spikes at 2am. For the last two years, that's meant wearing whatever hat the work needs. Some weeks I'm deep in backend architecture, designing systems that process high volumes of events without falling over. Other weeks I'm operating the cloud infrastructure, fixing what observability surfaces, and making sure the platform holds up under real load. Lately, more of my time has shifted to working directly with customers — sitting in their calls, understanding what's actually broken in their day, and turning that into product. I came up leading a small engineering team along the way, which taught me the thing I keep coming back to: the best technical work isn't the cleverest code, it's the work that unblocks other people and survives contact with reality. The wins I'm proudest of look pretty unglamorous on paper — a backend rewrite that cut infrastructure costs by 35%, a monorepo migration that dropped deployment issues by 40%, an integration that lifted merchant onboarding by 50%. None of them are interesting to talk about at a party. All of them moved the business. What I find genuinely exciting right now is how much of AI's actual value lives in the integration layer — the edge cases, the customer-specific quirks, the loop between what someone says they need and what they actually need. That's the work I want to keep doing. Builder by instinct, curious by default. If you're working on something in AI, building developer infrastructure, or just thinking about hard engineering problems — say hi. Always up for a good conversation.

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