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Anukul Raj
I build real-time systems — live location tracking, WebRTC calls, gateways for devices that speak odd protocols — and the interfaces people watch them through.
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- PE2 at Wokay. Go tracking lab after hours.
nowProduct Engineer 2 at Wokay, Hyderabad: task and chat modules, audio/video calling, field-force tracking. After hours, a Go location-tracking lab and a Rust inbox agent.
Four stops so far. Two internships, a startup frontend from zero, and a real-time workspace where I now own tasks, chat and the calling and tracking features around them.
- WP-01·2023.04 → 2023.07iMeet TechnologiesFrontend Developer Intern — Company website and an edtech UI.
- WP-02·2023.07 → 2024.05EchoFrontend Engineer Intern — Data dashboards and internal tools.
- WP-03·2024.09 → 2025.12Social XFrontend Engineer — A social product's frontend, from nothing.
- WP-04·2026.01 → nowWokayProduct Engineer 2 — Tasks, chat, calling and field-force tracking in a real-time workspace.
What I run myself, outside work.
- 01Device TrackerGo ingest, a trackcore library and an Android lab app for live location tracking.activeGoSQLiteKotlin
- 02Post RoomAn agent for an HR inbox that drafts but never sends on its own.liveRustAxumSQLx
- 03TalkToFriendVideo calls with no sign-up and no tracking, up to 20 people.liveNode.jsSocket.IOmediasoup
- 04eSSL ADMS GatewayA Go server that speaks an attendance terminal's push protocol.liveGoPostgreSQLSSE
Making a Fingerprint Machine Talk to My Server
An attendance terminal turned out to be a plain HTTP client that pushes tab-separated lines to whatever server you point it at. Here is what I learned getting one to talk to mine.
8 min readGPS Lies, and Other Things I Learned Building Live Tracking
I built a small location tracking lab from scratch — a Go backend, an Android app, a dashboard on a map. Most of what I learned was about not trusting the dots.
9 min read7 Mistakes I Keep Making While Building Features
These aren't lessons from a book. These are mistakes I've made — some of them multiple times — while building real features at work.
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Games. Small ones.
A few games on a CRT-style panel, same paper and ink as the rest of the site. For breaks between entries.