Anirudh S. Menon — Frontend Developer

The Story So Far

A Journey of Deliberate Detours

2017 — College Days

The Startup Spark

While pursuing Mechanical Engineering at Christ College, I co-founded Virtual Transit Edumate (VTed) — an edtech startup. We pitched investors and secured ₹10 lakhs in funding. I led marketing and operations, and somewhere between pitch decks and growth strategies, I wrote my first lines of HTML and CSS. That was the moment IT stopped being a foreign language.

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Pre-2019 — Before The Jobs

The Himalayan Detour

Before stepping into a corporate role, I chose the mountains. Months hitchhiking through the Himalayas and Dehradun — no fixed itinerary, no guarantees. Just a backpack, curiosity, and whatever ride was willing. That chapter taught me resilience and the art of figuring things out as you go.

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2019–2021 — Infosys

Into the Deep End

Freshly graduated with a Mechanical degree, I joined Infosys as a Software Engineer. Two years of intense learning — mobile app development in Xamarin Forms, Angular web apps for a US banking company, and investment portfolio tooling for Bank of America. The transition from mechanical gears to digital architecture was steep, but I loved every moment of the climb.

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2022 — Finastra

Product-First Thinking

I moved to Finastra — a product company — and everything shifted. Embedded in a senior dev team working on the cloud migration of Credit Quest, a credit decisioning product. The level of engineering rigour and peer learning was unlike anything in a services environment. Fintech became my domain.

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2024 — Canada & Appfabs

New Country, New Stack

I moved to Canada — North York, Toronto — and joined a Guidewire implementation project at Appfabs. React (Jutro framework) became my primary tool building insurance platform UIs: multi-step wizard workflows, micro frontend architecture, role-based component systems. I earned the Guidewire Jutro Associate Certification.

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2024 — Hippie Cloud

The Side Story That Matters

I built and launched Hippie Cloud — a fully automated property management and curated itinerary experience platform managing multiple properties across Canada. Built the website myself. The business runs lean, automated, and intentionally unscaled — because right now, my IT career comes first. But the entrepreneur in me never left.

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What I Build With

Technical Toolkit

Guidewire Associate Certification — Jutro Developer

Exam ID: 191404634 · Guidewire Software

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Frontend Engineering

AngularReactTypeScriptJavaScript ES6+HTML5CSS3SASSResponsive Design

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Architecture

Micro Frontend (MFE)Component ArchitectureState ManagementGuidewire Jutro

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Backend & APIs

REST APIsC# / .NET CoreJavaSpringJSONXMLSQL

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DevOps & Tools

GitAzure DevOpsCI/CDJenkinsPostmanSwaggerGitHub Copilot

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Domain Experience

Insurance TechnologyFintech / BankingCapital MarketsEnterprise SaaS

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Practices

Agile / ScrumCode ReviewsUnit TestingProduction Support

The Human Behind The Code

Resilience & Spirit

"Every 6 months, the mountains."

Solo travel is my reset. Long trips, unfamiliar roads, conversations with strangers. The Himalayas taught me that most problems look different from altitude — a perspective I carry into every sprint.

"Resilience is the word."

I don't quit until I've given 100%. It's not a motto — it's a pattern I noticed hitchhiking through mountain passes with no plan, debugging production issues at midnight, and building a business in a new country from scratch.

"From gears to code — and never looking back."

I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer. I helped raise ₹10 lakhs for a startup before I knew what an API was. I hitchhiked the Himalayas before my first Java service. None of that was wasted — every unconventional chapter taught me how to learn fast, stay adaptable, and build things that actually work. Continuous learning isn't a buzzword for me. It's what gets me out of bed.

Selected Work

Projects & Highlights

⭐ Featured · 2024–2026

Guidewire Insurance Platform — Jutro MFE

Led frontend development of a multi-policy digital insurance portal using React (Jutro). Architected micro frontend structure, implemented CPP wizard workflows with dynamic validation, role-based component visibility, and full REST API integration across CPP, Inland Marine, Commercial Property, and Liability lines.

React (Jutro)TypeScriptMicro FrontendREST APIsSwaggerAgileGitHub Copilot

Passion Project · 2024–Present

Hippie Cloud

Founded and built a fully automated property management and curated itinerary experience platform operating across multiple properties in Canada. Website built in-house. Lean, profitable, and waiting for the right moment to scale.

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Fintech · 2022

Credit Quest — Cloud Migration

Embedded in a senior dev team at Finastra to migrate Credit Quest — a credit decisioning product — to cloud infrastructure. Worked across C#, REST APIs, and SQL Server in a high-standards engineering environment.

C#.NET CoreREST APIsSQL ServerXMLCloud

Banking · 2019–2021

Investment Portfolio UI — Bank of America

At Infosys, built Angular web applications and Xamarin mobile apps for US banking clients including Bank of America. Delivered investment portfolio tooling and enterprise application features in Agile distributed teams.

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AnirudhS. Menon

A Journey of Deliberate Detours

Technical Toolkit

Resilience & Spirit

Projects & Highlights