Senior software engineer
Working at Google while sharing practical software-engineering lessons through Techie007 and The AI Architect.
(about)
Software engineer at Google. Creator of Techie007.
I'm Sukhad Anand. I work as a senior software engineer at Google after spending 2.5 years at Amazon. Outside my day job, I create practical engineering content about backend systems, system design, AI agents, and software careers.
GoogleSenior software engineer
2.5 yearsAt Amazon before Google
71K+YouTube subscribers
106K+LinkedIn followers
(the actual work)
Engineer first. Creator alongside it.
My industry career runs through Amazon and Google. The public side of that work is Techie007, where I explain the engineering ideas I spend time studying: backend fundamentals, distributed systems, architecture, AI agents, and career growth.
The channel has grown to more than 71,000 YouTube subscribers, while more than 106,000 people follow my engineering posts on LinkedIn. I also write The AI Architect, a newsletter focused on system design for the AI era.
Before industry, I studied at Delhi Technological University, completed Google Summer of Code 2017 with OpenCV, and published research across computer vision and deep learning.
(experience)
Software developer
Amazon
Worked at Amazon before moving to Google, building the industry experience behind the engineering topics I now teach publicly.
Google Summer of Code contributor
OpenCV
Implemented and optimized face alignment for OpenCV, including training, tests, documentation, and the opencv_contrib contribution.
Engineering student and computer-vision researcher
Delhi Technological University
Studied at Delhi College of Engineering / DTU, worked on computer-vision projects, and published research before entering industry.
(research / open source)
Computer vision and OpenCV came before big tech.
My Google Summer of Code project implemented face alignment for OpenCV. My published work includes road-crack and pothole detection, fashion recommendation, smartphone fingerprint extraction, and scene-text recognition.
/projects →Publications
Google Scholar →IEEE DICTA · 2018 · 105 citations
Crack-pot: Autonomous Road Crack and Pothole Detection
S. Anand, S. Gupta, V. Darbari, S. Kohli
IEEE ICIP · 2018 · 35 citations
Diversity in Fashion Recommendation Using Semantic Parsing
S. Verma, S. Anand, C. Arora, A. Rai
arXiv preprint · 2017 · 6 citations
Fingerprint Extraction Using Smartphone Camera
S. Gupta, S. Anand, A. Rai
Springer CVIP · 2020 · 4 citations
Scene Text Recognition in the Wild with Motion Deblurring Using Deep Networks
S. Anand, S. Susan, S. Aggarwal, S. Aggarwal, R. Singla
IEEE DICTA · 2020
WA-Net: Leveraging Atrous and Deformable Convolutions for Efficient Text Detection
S. Anand, Z. Khan
Open source that shaped the work.
The research continues in public through OpenCV contributions and practical computer-vision tools.