Anand Chowdhary

Anand Chowdhary is a creative technologist and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CTO of Pabio, an interior design and rent-to-buy furniture service funded by Y Combinator (YC S21). Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Oswald Labs, the award-winning accessibility technology company that builds products for people with disabilities. He has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 and Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch Financial Times)'s list of 50 most-innovating entrepreneurs and professionals in the Netherlands. He is also a consultant to several startups around the world, and serves as an advisor to Oefenen.nl, an adult education nonprofit based in The Hague. He lives in Groningen, the Netherlands.

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  Design / UX

  I started my career as a user experience design consultant for e-commerce companies, so I have plenty of "full-stack design" experience — from user research, wireframes, UX writing, interactive prototypes, and interface design. I'm also experienced with both modern and traditional design tools, from Sketch and Figma to Photoshop and Illustrator.

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  Product management

  I've been building and launching products for as long as I can remember and have experimented with several types of business models, including B2B SaaS, B2C smartphone apps, open source monetization, etc. As a full-stack maker of several tools, including a #1 Product Hunt open-source product, I can help guide the big-picture vision and make informed decisions by writing OKRs, brainstorming KPIs, building teams, and launching products.

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  Public relations

  I've been very lucky to have been featured in some leading publications around the world, including in Forbes 30 Under 30, Dutch Financial Times' list of most-innovative entrepreneurs and professionals in The Netherlands, and in publications like Time Out Magazine, The Times of India, Tubantia, RTV Oost, Forbes, YourStory, Hindustan Times, HuffPost, etc. I can help entrepreneurs craft stories and get them published in the right places.

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  Technology and tools

  I've been writing code and designing interfaces for over a decade, and have a 5+ year full-stack experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, including all major frontend frameworks. I'm also an extremely active open-source contributor and maker, with over 10,000 contribution on GitHub per year.

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  Javascript

  16 years of experience

  I'm highly specialized in full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript, and have experience with all major frontend frameworks, including Vue.js, React, Angular, and Svelte. I've also written tens of JS libraries, open source projects, and #1 products. If it's JavaScript, I can probably help you with it.

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  MySQL

  13 years of experience

  I've worked on projects of all sizes when it comes to different databases, both SQL and NoSQL. I can help you architect your database schema, setup powerful index-based optimizations and relations, and help you choose the right database for your startup.

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  NodeJS

  11 years of experience

  I've been writing JavaScript for almost a decade, and I have 4+ years of Node.js experience in production. I've built open-source projects, web APIs, and large-scale platforms running Node.js, so I can help you architect, deploy, and scale your projects.

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  Python

  11 years of experience

  Though I haven't used it as much as JavaScript and TypeScript, I've worked on a few hobby projects with Python, especially for machine learning applications. I can help you architect your tech stack with Python frameworks like Django and Flask, or write scikit or Tensorflow-powered ML apps.

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  Stripe

  10 years of experience

  I've worked with Stripe APIs and subscriptions models extensively, especially while building my open-source JS/TS SaaS framework, Staart. I can help you integrate Stripe for payments or recurring billing into your products and show you best-practices for compliance such as with PCI.

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  Wordpress

  14 years of experience

  I've published several WordPress themes and have worked with fast-growing Woocommerce-based e-commerce companies. Plus, with significant PHP programming experience, I can help write custom plugins, themes, and APIs in WordPress.

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  Web Apps

  10+ years of web application design and development experience from semantic HTML, CSS flavors, and accessibility, to modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React/Next.js, Vue.js/Nuxt.js, Svelte/SvelteKit, web components, etc.) and web vitals.