# Anish Roy — Software Engineer

> Full-stack software engineer with 3+ years of experience building scalable web applications and developer tools. product engineer at BuildShip with end-to-end product ownership across frontend architecture, backend systems, billing infrastructure, and AI agent development.

## Contact & Links

- Website: https://anishroy.com
- Email: anishroy212@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/iamanishroy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamanishroy
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamanishroy
- Location: Kolkata, India (UTC +05:30)
- Resume: https://anishroy.com/resume.pdf

## Core Competencies

- Frontend Architecture & Performance Optimization
- Full-Stack Application Development (React, TypeScript, Node.js)
- Billing & Payment Systems (Stripe)
- High-Throughput Event Processing (Rust, Redis, BigQuery)
- AI Agent Systems Design & Implementation
- Serverless & Cloud-Native Architecture (GCP, Cloudflare Workers)
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server Development
- Role-Based Access Control & Security
- Low-Code Platform Engineering
- Developer Tooling & DX

## Technical Skills

### Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, Go, Python, Java, SQL, Bash, PHP

### Frontend
React (expert), Next.js, Astro, React Flow, MUI, Tailwind CSS, HTML/CSS/SCSS, GraphQL

### Backend
Node.js, Express.js, Hono, REST APIs, GraphQL, Cloudflare Workers, MCP Protocol

### Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase Firestore, Redis, BigQuery, SQLite Cloud, Drizzle ORM, Prisma

### Infrastructure & Tools
Google Cloud Platform, Cloudflare, Docker, Git, Linux, Stripe API, PostHog, Figma

## Work Experience

### BuildShip (formerly Rowy) — Software Engineer
December 2022 – Present | Remote | Full-Time

BuildShip is a low-code backend platform for building AI-powered workflows, APIs, and scheduled tasks with a visual, node-based editor.

Key contributions:

- **Engineer**: Joined from day one. Architected the frontend from scratch — UI layout systems, API adapters, and co-designed the database schema.
- **Workflow Editor**: Built an interactive, canvas-based workflow editor using React Flow with state management, logging/streaming infrastructure, and a node library.
- **Usage Tracking System**: Designed and built a high-performance event processing pipeline using Rust, Redis, and BigQuery — handling 5.5M+ events daily for analytics and metering.
- **Billing & Payments**: Owned the complete pricing and billing stack — Stripe integration, subscription management, metering, usage-based billing, auto top-ups, and add-ons.
- **AI Agent System**: Led end-to-end architecture and implementation of BuildShip's AI agent system, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- **MCP Gateway**: Architected and built the MCP (Model Context Protocol) gateway on Cloudflare Workers, enabling AI assistants to invoke serverless functions via the Streamable HTTP transport.
- **Observability Platform**: Built a dashboard with execution graphs, function metrics, and resource usage tracking backed by PostgreSQL (Nile) with optimized indexes.
- **Rowy Platform**: Engineered role-based data access rules with granular permissions. Enhanced table UI performance through memoized rendering, column reordering, and optimistic updates.

### Craft It Yourself — Full Stack Developer
September 2022 – December 2022 | Pune | Part-Time

- Built a full-stack inventory management and order processing system using MySQL, Node.js, and React.

### Studious Media Agency — Frontend Web Developer
July 2022 – September 2022 | Remote | Internship

- Translated design mockups into responsive, interactive React components including drag-and-drop interfaces and data tables.

### ISKCON — Backend Developer
July 2022 – September 2022 | Pune | Volunteer

- Developed an internal task management system backend using Node.js and MongoDB.

## Projects

### FireMCP
MCP server for Firestore that enables AI agents to interact with Firestore databases. Supports stdio, HTTP, and SSE transports.
- Live: https://firemcp.anishroy.com
- Source: https://github.com/iamanishroy/firemcp

### GitHub Heat
Generate customizable GitHub contribution heatmaps with SVG rendering, dark mode support, visual effects, and extensive styling options.
- Live: https://gh-heat.anishroy.com

### API Lab
Browser-based API testing tool with support for multiple HTTP methods, response metadata display, request history, and public API testing.
- Live: https://apilab.anishroy.com

### PageLike
Serverless, zero-config like button widget for websites. Built with Express.js, Prisma, and SCSS.
- Live: https://pagelike.js.org
- Source: https://github.com/iamanishroy/pagelike

### React LiquidSwipe
Open-source React component library for gesture-supported liquid swipe animations using react-spring. Published on npm.
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-liquidswipe
- Source: https://github.com/iamanishroy/react-liquidswipe

### Better Chess
Responsive, real-time multiplayer chess web app with integrated video calling.
- Live: https://better-chess.vercel.app

### MailShots
API service for sending emails from the frontend via GET or POST requests.
- Live: https://mailshots.vercel.app

### Exercise API
RESTful exercise database API with extensive datasets, built for seamless integration.
- Live: https://exercise-api.vercel.app

### netlify-plugin-js-obfuscator
JavaScript obfuscation plugin for Netlify-hosted sites, providing source code protection at build time.
- Source: https://github.com/iamanishroy/netlify-plugin-js-obfuscator

## Blog & Technical Writing

### "Demystifying the Journey of a URL from Your Browser"
Published: April 10, 2023
Deep dive into DNS lookups, TCP connections, HTTP/HTTPS request lifecycle, and browser optimization techniques.

### "Beyond Divs and Spans: Boosting SEO and Accessibility with Semantic HTML!"
Published: April 9, 2023
Guide to semantic HTML — why it matters for SEO and accessibility, common tags, and best practices.

## Certifications

- AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (June 2022)
- MongoDB for JavaScript Developers (August 2022)
- Full Stack MERN Bootcamp (February 2022)
- React Certificate (August 2021)
- SQL Certificate (September 2021)
- Python Certificate (September 2021)

## About

Anish Roy is a software engineer based in Kolkata, India. He specializes in building scalable, production-grade web applications with a strong focus on React, TypeScript, and Node.js. As a product engineer at BuildShip, he has demonstrated the ability to architect complex systems from the ground up — from interactive visual workflow editors and AI agent platforms to high-throughput event pipelines processing millions of events daily.

His recent work spans MCP gateway development on Cloudflare Workers, observability dashboards, and optimizing serverless functions for CPU-constrained environments. He is an active open-source contributor with published npm packages and multiple live developer tools.

He is passionate about developer experience, performance optimization, and building tools that make software development more accessible.