Anand Chowdhary

/now

Building Sycamore, the enterprise OS for autonomous AI agents, as Head of Product and founding team member.
Previously, founded and sold FirstQuadrant, an AI sales platform for founders and revenue teams, funded by Y Combinator.
Contributing to open source during nights and weekends as an award-winning GitHub Star.
Advising startups, angel investing and doing nonprofit work on the side through Chowdhary .co and .org.

/life

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28.4894908 years old
Next birthday in 194 days
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Currently in the Netherlands
It is 5:56 PM (UTC +01:00)
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Year of Discovery
Yearly theme for 2026
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2,679 steps walked today
61 km walked this month
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Slept 8.2 hours last night
Tracked via Oura & Apple
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1,107 kcal consumed
84g protein, 40g fat, 95g carbs
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Listening to Maisie Peters
Top artist this month
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7,857 contributions
On GitHub in the last year

/events

DEVWorld 2026 · Amsterdam
Building reliable AI systems in production
AI Meetup · Enschede
How AI agents can be used in practice
RenderATL 2025 · Atlanta
Build your own AI engineer like Copilot & Devin

From time to time, I speak at startup events and technical conferences. Go to /events ▸

/blog

The future of AI-native work
May 28, 2026
Reflections on six weeks in Palo Alto
May 19, 2026
Why I joined Sycamore
March 31, 2026

I write about technology, startups, and life lessons learned along the way. Go to /blog ▸

/open-source

Upptime · 17,058 stars
Uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub Actions
Uppload · 1,880 stars
Better JavaScript image uploader. It's highly customizable with 30+ plugins, completely free and open-source, and can be used with any file uploading backend.
Continuous Claude · 1,350 stars
Run Claude Code in a loop repeatedly to do large projects

I build and maintain open source projects to scratch my own itch as a GitHub Star. Go to /open-source ▸

/about

I’m a tech entrepreneur, engineer, and designer, who builds and advises startups. Go to /about ▸

/location

For over ten years, I’ve been tracking my location as I travel around the world. Go to /location ▸

/projects

I build software products and tools that help people be more productive and creative. Go to /projects ▸

/books

I read books about technology, philosophy, and personal development. Go to /books ▸

Chowdhary.co

Gigacatalyst

Airweave

Respan

Sycamore

FirstQuadrant

CommandCode

Paleon

Pabio

Oswald Labs

Ara

Angel investments in early-stage startups building the future. Go to Chowdhary.co ▸

/notes

Agents need a 401 protocolAgent version control becomes obviousBlaming prompts instead of commitsGovernance for opaque modelsGovernance becomes the enterprise gate

Quick thoughts and insights captured from X, preserved for future reference. Go to /notes ▸