Anurag's Homepage

GM, I'm Anurag (mostly known as Pixel). I'm a Full Stack Developer & Designer specializing in high-performance systems and intuitive Web3 interfaces. I engineer robust logic, power it with high-throughput data streams, and deploy with surgical precision. While my current focus is on decentralized finance and Solana indexing (Founding Engineer → CTO), this site serves as a central repository for my technical work, research, and engineering philosophy. Find me on GitHub or Email.

This page indexes my work: Experience, Projects, Software, Articles, gallery. For a summary of my architectural impact, see my Impact page.

Work Experience

A chronological log of my professional career:

• Founding Engineer → CTO @ Token Launchpad (Dec 2025 – feb 2022):
  • Built WebSocket-based infrastructure for live streaming of trades, prices, and analytics
  • Implemented Redis-based caching, pub/sub, and queueing systems for low-latency data flow
  • Designed backpressure handling, retry logic, and fault-tolerant pipelines for burst traffic
  • Built services across Node.js, Bun, and Edge Workers optimizing for latency and cold-start performance
  • Integrated Solana/EVM systems for transaction processing and state handling
  • Designed and operated high-throughput infrastructure handling traffic spikes and adversarial bot activity, maintaining 99.99% uptime
  • Implemented autoscaling, rate limiting, and failure isolation strategies to ensure system stability under DDoS and high-load conditions
  • Built automated CI/CD pipelines enabling zero-downtime deployments and reliable release cycles
  • Developed real-time observability systems for monitoring system health, metrics, and anomaly detection
  • Built and operated real-time video streaming and chat systems using Agora and WebSockets, ensuring low-latency and stable performance
  • Implemented reconnection handling, retry strategies, and fault tolerance mechanisms for reliable live sessions
  • Designed systems to handle burst traffic and concurrent user activity with stable performance
  • Developed and deployed cross-platform mobile application (React Native + Expo) integrated with backend systems and Solana interactions
• Contract Developer @ SRD DEX (Dec 2025 – march 2026):
  • Improved backend reliability and fault tolerance under production load
  • Optimized transaction handling flows for high-throughput environments
  • Integrated Paymaster and Account Abstraction (AA) flows via Particle Network, enabling gasless user onboarding and seamless cross-chain swaps.
  • Improved system reliability and fault tolerance in production environments through optimized transaction handling and failure recovery
  • Contributed to scalable backend systems operating under real-world traffic conditions
  • Converted Figma designs into responsive production interfaces using Next.js and Tailwind
  • Built Web3 UI flows including wallet connections, swaps, and liquidity interactions
  • Improved onboarding UX and reduced user drop-offs through optimized flows
• Full-Stack Developer (Aug 2023 – Dec 2024):
  • Developed responsive UI components with focus on performance and usability
  • Improved mobile responsiveness and frontend performance across platform
  • Built reusable component systems for faster UI development
  • Managed production infrastructure using AWS EC2 and DigitalOcean with focus on uptime and reliability
  • Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated deployments
  • Configured Nginx, SSL (Certbot), and production server optimizations
  • Enabled continuous delivery with near-zero downtime releases
  • Built backend APIs with optimized data handling and caching strategies
  • Improved response times through efficient system design and server-side optimizations

Major Projects

Deep dives into key systems I've built from scratch:

• Yellowstone-Vixen: A battle-tested Solana Geyser stream processor built in Rust, handling thousands of TPS spikes for real-time kline generation.
• Trading Terminal: A pure Rust, terminal-first crypto intelligence platform for low-latency market monitoring and execution.
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