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Anjan Das. Lead Engineer at Salesforce. Ironman 70.3 finisher. Building Bimi on the side._

Lead Member of Technical Staff on Salesforce's distributed-database platform — founding engineer of the India team. Two patents in development, one Best Ethical Hack win, and a half-decade of CI/CD & cloud-platform work. BITS Pilani CS '19. Outside work I run distance and build small products.

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01WORK

Salesforce / Jun 2019 → present

Lead Member of Technical Staff (LMTS) — HBase Public Cloud. Founding engineer of the team in India. Three promotions over seven years.

Public-cloud distributed-systems infrastructure for one of the largest NoSQL fleets at Salesforce. My work spans the HBase + Hadoop stack: CI/CD, release automation, fleet stability, cost / capacity, and the long-running architectural migrations that turn monolithic on-prem services into multi-tenant cloud-native ones on Kubernetes/AWS.

Lead Member of Technical Staff / LMTS
Feb 2025 → Present · Bengaluru

Promoted to Lead Engineer. Leading the architectural migration of Salesforce's distributed-database platform from monolithic deployment to per-service deployment on Kubernetes/AWS, and driving the autoscaling, stability, and observability initiatives that make the service efficient and reliable at cloud scale.
- ⭐ Nominated for FY27 Tech & Products All-Star Award (May 2026) — peer write-up
- Founded the India platform engineering team — first person to start it, onboarded teammates end-to-end on the cloud-native platform stack; mentoring 4+ engineers across autoscaling, AI assistants, distributed storage, JDK upgrades
- Service decomposition: monolith → per-service deployments. First services unplugged from the monolith in the FY26 release — unlocked a one-year platform release-moratorium
- Designed YARN NodeManager differential autoscaling — diagnosed the Yo-Yo effect and designed differential HPAs with ordinal-based queue categorization. ~33% per-week YARN cost reduction in pilot clusters; patent in flight, mentored by a senior architect
- Reclaimed ~1.8 PB of cloud storage via graceful-shutdown PVC release; $972K EBS savings
- Submitted patent abstract on stack-based PR validation for multi-project CI/CD (Aug 2024)
- Initiated and shipped Phase 1 of a fleet-wide Crash Detection framework; designed Phoenix coproc injection via Mutating Admission Webhooks
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- StatefulSets
- AWS
- EBS
- Spinnaker
- HBase
- Apache Phoenix
- Hadoop
- YARN
- HDFS
Senior Member of Technical Staff / SMTS
Feb 2022 → Jan 2025 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad

Promoted to Senior Software Engineer. Designed and rolled out production frameworks adopted org-wide by 100+ engineers, powering one of the largest distributed-database fleets at Salesforce.
- 🏆 Won Best Ethical Hack at the company-wide GenAI hackathon — led a 4-person team building an AI knowledge-assistant combining Slack, document-suite, and wiki content. Featured in the company-wide newsletter; demo to senior leadership; 6+ months of cross-org adoption requests
- Designed and shipped a feature-branch development framework for the multi-project distributed-database stack — became the default way the org ships complex changes. Enabled successful upgrades of Hadoop 3, Kerberos, and ZooKeeper
- Spearheaded migration of all CI workflows from legacy datacenter Jenkins to AWS-backed cloud Jenkins
- 6 successful releases in one fiscal year as release coordinator — consolidated production back to a single stack (single-stack milestone)
- Led the container OS migration (CentOS 7 → RHEL 9) across commercial, sovereign, and regional cloud environments — delivered ahead of program deadline
- Built a customer self-serve schema-deployment workflow — cut deploy time from days to hours
- Root-caused a Sev1 production incident: a 15-minute DFS-client timeout during NameNode failover
- Java
- Groovy
- Python
- Jenkins
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- HBase
- Hadoop
- Kafka
- Apache ZooKeeper
Member of Technical Staff / MTS
Aug 2020 → Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad

Promoted to Software Engineer. Designed the team's release-orchestration spine and built foundational CI/CD infrastructure for the distributed-database org.
- 🏆 Finalist at the company-wide Availability Hackathon — co-built a release-workflow visualisation platform with a 4-person team
- Designed and built a DAG-based workflow-management framework from scratch that automated the compliance-gated release process — sustained ownership across 5 years; adopted by 8+ partner workstreams including external customer-config promotion
- Migrated the entire CI/CD infrastructure from on-prem Jenkins to AWS-based Kubernetes — the foundation for every release framework that followed
- Built artifact conflict detection + on-demand release branch deprecation — adopted by partner teams for their own releases
- Java
- Groovy
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Apache Bigtop
- Apache Ambari
Associate Member of Technical Staff / AMTS
Jun 2019 → Jul 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad

Joined Salesforce as a new graduate on the developer-productivity team for the distributed-database org.
- 🏆 Won Bigdata Management Hack Day (FY20) — built a release-visibility dashboard on the Salesforce platform with audit-trail subscriptions and dashboard-chatter integration
- Established the modular CI test framework (Spock + JenkinsPipelineUnit + JaCoCo) and the auto-discovery PR validation pipeline — the foundation for safe iteration on a system used by the entire org
- Re-architected the Apache Ambari release pipeline from scratch — separated daily and release builds for the first time
- Authored the original release-automation library that later evolved into the team's full release-orchestration framework
- Java
- Groovy
- Spock
- JaCoCo
- Jenkins
- Apache Bigtop
- Apache Ambari

Recognition · patents · talks

🏆

Recognition

FY27 Tech & Products All-Star Award — Nominee, May 2026
~3,000-word peer write-up
Best Ethical Hack — Company-wide GenAI Hackathon, FY24
Newsletter mention · executive demo · 6+ months of cross-org adoption requests
Winner — Bigdata Management Hack Day — FY20
Release-visibility dashboard
Finalist — Availability Hackathon — FY21
Release-workflow visualisation platform
Trailhead Ranger — Salesforce learning rank, Jan 2024

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Patents (in development)

Stack-based PR validation for multi-project CI/CD
Abstract submitted Aug 2024 · pre-filing. Prevents merging incompatible changes across forks of multiple distributed-system projects via stack-based pre-merge validation.
YARN Differential Autoscaling
In design · production-validated · mentored by a senior architect. Mitigates the Yo-Yo effect via ordinal-based node categorization, differential HPAs per workload type, and auto-classification of incoming jobs.

Engineering blog draft in progress: "Autoscaling YARN on AWS"

🎤

Selected talks

Open Mic · Developer Productivity story
Company technology-tour event, Bangalore, FY24
Tech talk · CI/CD on Git for multi-project distributed systems
Internal Git-enablement camp
Community of Practice · Apache Luigi Workflow Engine
Architecture Forum · Service Decomposition design
Proposal approved
Deep Dive Forums · Coprocessor Injection · Self-Service Schema · feature-branch framework
Hackathon Grand Finale · Company-wide GenAI Hackathon

02EDUCATION

Where I started

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani / BITS Pilani

2015 → 2019 · Pilani

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science. Active in the Student Union. Spent the final two years on research and internships in machine learning, computer vision, and blockchain identity systems before joining Salesforce as a new grad.

Trailhead Ranger · Jan 2024

Pre-Salesforce experience

Jul 2018 – Dec 2018

Cisco Systems (India) — Software Development Intern, Bangalore
Built an end-to-end blockchain-based identity management solution for people, organizations, and IoT devices to transact securely.
Apr 2017 – May 2018

CEERI Pilani — Project Assistant (Apprenticeship)
Machine learning research on high-speed vision algorithms under Scientist Pramod Kr. Tanwar at the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute.
May 2017 – Jul 2017

NESAC — Summer Intern, Meghalaya
Built a platform-independent geo-registration tool for LANDSAT imagery using GDAL at the North Eastern Space Applications Centre. Open-source repo →
Jan 2017 – May 2017

BITS Pilani Research — Project Assistant
Advanced object detection algorithms using machine learning, under Dr. Kamlesh Tiwari (CSIS Dept.).

03PROJECTS

Built on the side

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Saaja Foods

D2C nut-butter brand · live business

Built the full e-commerce stack — site, cart, payments, Amazon storefront integration, blog, recipes, product pages, FAQ, reviews carousel. ~500 customers, FSSAI-certified, live on Amazon. Blinkit + Swiggy Instamart launches in progress.

e-commerce
Amazon
FSSAI
D2C food

saajafoods.com ↗

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Bimi

Household coordination app · in progress

An AI coordination layer for households with a home cook. Started as a WhatsApp workflow in my own house during Ironman training; shipped the Android app in 4 days.

React Native
FastAPI
Postgres
Fly.io
WhatsApp

trybimi.in ↗

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AstroMate

Astrology-driven dating app · prototype

Swipe written in the stars. iOS-first design, Android-first build on Expo React Native. Live-tested over 4 build → test → fix iterations on Pixel 7 emulator. Zero P0/P1 open; 47 interactive controls validated end to end.

Expo
React Native
TypeScript
design system

private build

04FITNESS

Run, ride, swim, repeat.

131 kg → 89 kg

In 2020, head-down at work, I let my health slip. One morning a back injury left me with temporary lower-body paralysis. The doctor said my body was the cause. That was the day I changed how I lived. Four years and 42 kg later I finished Ironman 70.3 Goa.

Before and after weight loss — 131 kg to 89 kg — Before · after

Ironman 70.3 Goa · October 2024

1.9 km swim · 90 km bike · 21.1 km run. Eight months of training.

Anjan Das at Ironman 70.3 India finish line, arms raised — FRAME 01 Finish line. Arms up. Bib 1061.

Anjan running down the finish chute with international flags — FRAME 02 Finish chute · international flags.

Ironman 70.3 finisher medal closeup with race wristbands — FRAME 03 Finisher medal · “Triathletes don't quit.”

Pre-race transition kit — helmet, tri-suit, bags, bib 1061 — FRAME 04 Race-morning kit. T1 / T2 bags. Bib 1061.

Anjan holding the Ironman 70.3 India FINISHER 2024 towel — FRAME 05 Finisher towel · 2024.

Marathons

Barefoot Marathon 2023 (3rd Edition) with Milind Soman. NMDC Hyderabad — 2023, 2024, 2025. Half-marathon PR: 2:43 at 7:41/km pace (2024). In Aug 2025 I paced a friend to their first finish at Hyderabad Marathon.