ANIKET AWATI

Serial Entrepreneur & VP of Engineering from Pune 🚀

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The Human Behind The Screen

👋 Hello there, digital explorer! I'm Aniket Awati, a 15+ year veteran of turning wild ideas into reality (and occasionally profitable companies).

🚀 Currently VP of Engineering at Zeotap, where I wrangle petabytes of data and make hundreds of thousands of requests per second look easy. Previously founded AppSurfer (acquired by Media.net), where we invented Android app streaming before Google made it cool with Instant Apps.

🎯 Serial entrepreneur with a track record of building things that scale: from 0 to billions of ad impressions per day, from seed funding to acquisition, from solo hacker to leading teams of 40+ engineers across multiple continents.

Things I've Actually Done:

  • 🏗️ Built Android virtualization before it was mainstream
  • 📱 Created smartphone-as-joystick tech (Twist gaming stick)
  • 💰 Reduced infrastructure costs by more than half while improving performance
  • 🎮 Made a Sudoku game with hundreds of thousands of downloads (humble beginnings!)
  • 🎯 Currently building PageRules.io and BabyLooksLike.in on the side

When I'm Not Coding:

  • 📚 Obsessed with epic fantasy (LoTR, ASOIAF, Wheel of Time)
  • 🏏 Cricket enthusiast (the sport, not the insect)
  • 🎬 Binge-watching anything with dragons or complicated plots
  • 🍕 Serious debates about whether pineapple belongs on pizza (it doesn't)
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My Digital Superpowers

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Code Sorcery

Fluent in Go, Java, and the ancient arts of Android. Can make Node.js handle billions of requests without breaking a sweat.

Go Java Node.js Android C++
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Pixel Pushing

Making things look pretty on screens of all sizes. I fight with CSS Grid and usually win.

UI/UX Figma CSS Design
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Infrastructure Wizardry

Architecting systems that handle massive scale data and billions of requests. GCP, Kubernetes, BigTable, BigQuery – the whole shebang.

GCP Kubernetes BigTable Microservices BigQuery
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Team & Product Leadership

From 0 to dozens of engineers, seed to acquisition, MVP to enterprise. Scaling teams, products, and sanity simultaneously.

Team Building Product Strategy Scaling Entrepreneurship

Things I've Built (That Actually Work)

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PageRules.io

Centralized traffic management for modern infrastructure. Because manually editing YAML files in 2024 is so last decade.

GCP • Kubernetes • Lua • High-Performance Magic
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BabyLooksLike.in

A fun family resemblance app that settles the age-old debate of "who does the baby look like?" with the power of AI.

AI • Computer Vision • Family Drama Resolution
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AppSurfer (Acquired)

Android app streaming before Google made it cool. We literally invented the tech that became Instant Apps. Not bragging, just facts.

Android • VNC • WebRTC • Time Travel
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Twist Gaming

Smart TV gaming stick with smartphone-as-joystick tech. Because why use a boring controller when your phone has all those sensors?

Android TV • Sensors • Innovation
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YAAG

Yet Another ApiDoc Generator for Golang. Because writing API documentation manually is for people who enjoy pain.

Go • Documentation • Developer Happiness
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Sudoku (200k+ Downloads)

My humble Nokia Ovi Store debut. 200k+ downloads proved that people really, really love number puzzles.

J2ME • Nokia Ovi • Nostalgia

Let's Create Something Ridiculous Together