ANIKET AWATI

Serial Entrepreneur & Engineering Leader from Pune 🚀

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The Human Behind The Screen

👋 Hello there, digital explorer! I'm Aniket Awati, someone who's been accidentally turning caffeine into code for 20 odd years (and occasionally into companies that people actually want to buy).

🚀 Currently VP of Engineering at Zeotap, where I pretend to understand petabytes of data while frantically Googling "why is everything on fire?" Previously founded AppSurfer, which got acqui-hired by Media.net after we built Android app streaming. Turns out we were just early to the party – Google eventually did it better with Instant Apps.

🎯 Serial entrepreneur is a fancy way of saying "person who keeps starting things and hoping they don't break." My track record includes scaling from 0 to billions of ad impressions per day, which sounds impressive until you realize most of that was just being really good at breaking things in production.

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
  • 🇬🇧 Devoted to British humor - Monty Python, Blackadder, and the art of dry wit

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