Anish Roy
Software engineer
I build software end to end — frontend architecture, billing systems, high-throughput pipelines, AI agents. Engineer at BuildShip since day one.
Three years of building production software. Kolkata, India.
Experience
Now
BuildShip
Frontend architecture from scratch, the canvas workflow editor, the full Stripe billing stack, a Rust pipeline metering 100M+ events a day, and the AI agent system. Dec '22 —
Frontend architecture from scratch, the canvas workflow editor, the full Stripe billing stack, a Rust pipeline metering 100M+ events a day, and the AI agent system. Dec '22 —
2022
Craft It Yourself
Inventory and order processing in React, Node, MySQL. Sep–Dec
Inventory and order processing in React, Node, MySQL. Sep–Dec
Studious Media
Design mockups into drag-and-drop React interfaces. Jul–Sep
Design mockups into drag-and-drop React interfaces. Jul–Sep
ISKCON
Task-management backend in Node and MongoDB. Jul–Sep
Task-management backend in Node and MongoDB. Jul–Sep
Projects
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ExposeMe
Share your localhost peer-to-peer — one npx command, no tunnel servers.
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ctxr.me
Prepend any URL, get clean LLM-ready markdown back in under a second.
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MemLib
Open-source memory layer for AI agents — store, recall, synthesize context.
- GitHub Heat GitHub contribution heatmaps as SVG
- Webrec session capture for the browser
Writing
2026
20/03/2026
Prompt engineering, interactively
New
Few-shot, chain-of-thought, personas — with a builder you can try as you read. 20/03 2 min read
Few-shot, chain-of-thought, personas — with a builder you can try as you read. 20/03 2 min read
2023
10/04/2023
The journey of a URL, demystified
DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP — everything between enter and paint. 10/04 4 min read
DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP — everything between enter and paint. 10/04 4 min read
09/04/2023
Beyond divs and spans
Semantic HTML as a free win for SEO and accessibility. 09/04 3 min read
Semantic HTML as a free win for SEO and accessibility. 09/04 3 min read