Anushka Bhandari

Hey, I am Anushka

I am a software engineer building AI application infrastructure at scale in Amsterdam. Currently founding engineer for GenAI platform at Booking.com.

My love for science and maths as a kid made me pursue engineering, which later developed into a passion for building and scaling systems, solving problems.

When not coding, you will find me immersed in reading books (now replaced w atomic reading Substacks!) or trying to do something athletic (latest obsession: via ferratas).

Experience

Booking.com

2024 - Present
Founding Engineer, GenAI Platforms · Amsterdam

Building the agent platform powering how teams build, ship, and run AI agents / MCPs / skills in production.

Agent runtime, identity, and discovery: the GenAI infrastructure engineers depend on.

Python · Go · Rust · TypeScript

Databricks

2022 - 2024
Software Engineer, Jobs & Workflows · Amsterdam

Built core orchestration systems powering how thousands of enterprise customers (e.g. OpenAI, Adobe) run data pipelines in production.

Scala · GraphQL · TypeScript

Goldman Sachs

2020 - 2022
Software Engineer, SecDB Architecture · Bangalore

Built core systems for the firm's next-gen risk and pricing platform — SecDB (Goldman Sachs' securities database) — serving real-time trade and risk data at firm-wide scale.

Java · Python · C++ · Go · FoundationDB · AWS

Gates Foundation Research

2018 - 2019
Lead Developer & Researcher · Delhi
  • Architected mobile training platform for 500+ health workers across India
  • Scaled from prototype to production with Delhi State Health Mission and SWACH partnership
  • Published full paper at CSCW'19 (Core A* Conference), ACM
Python · Django · Go

Building

Side quests I'm building and using. Not open source, just things I need.

Writing

Speaking

[2026] Speaking at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe
[2026] Spoke at API Days Munich (July) on Agentic identity from the trenches
[2026] Spoke at API Days Amsterdam on "Beyond Building the Agentic Gateway" (June)
[2026] Attended MCP Dev Summit, New York to look at build-vs-buy tradeoffs for agent infrastructure
[2024] API Days, Paris. AI and APIs subtheme with GraphQL
[2020] KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Amsterdam (attended virtually due to global lockdown)
[2019] Presented research paper at CSCW, Austin — LEAP: Scaffolding Collaborative Learning of Community Health Workers in India
[2019] KubeCon Sydney — Linux Foundation scholarship recipient for open source contributions to Eudyptula Challenge