Looking to work closely with business leaders, to own and deliver technology that amplifies business value, either as a technical co-founder or a senior leader.
- I enjoy hands-on full-stack software development with diverse experience across organizations ranging in industry and size
- with a long tenure at leading and developing geographically distributed teams
- good at
- navigating complex business situations
- identifying the most important drivers of value
- driving rapid iteration towards them
- setting up the organization, processes and culture to do that effectively
- and have also provided technical guidance to CEOs and consulted on sales and product
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Director of Engineering @ [Stealth Startup] (March 2022 - August 2022)
Building data processing systems to support the core application platform.
- Involves cleaning, processing, enhancing data from a wide variety of sources
- Building workflow tooling and application to streamline the above
- Technologies used: Clojure, AWS DyanmoDB, AWS RDS, Elasticsearch
Software Developer @ Omnyway (June 2020 - February 2022)
Real-time streaming commerce platform for Retailers to hold live events
- Implemented the Retailer Dashboard and Shopper web applications
- Helped accelerate the transition from Managed AWS to Serverless deployments, which saved costs and reduced management overhead
- Integrated Paypal's Connected Path as a payment option for Retailers
- Implemented a Shopify App to enable Shopify merchants to leverage Omnyway's streaming commerce solutionplatform
- Adapting the entire platform to use an Indian payment gateway needed to make end-to-end payments work in India
- Technologies used: Clojure, Clojurescript, AWS Appsync, AWS Amplify, Sass.
Consulting CTO @ Hipla (June 2020 - September 2020)
Facility management platform with a focus on Visitor acess and scheduling via Indoor positioning.
Computer Vision-driven Contact Tracing platform for facilities
- Provided all-around technical counsel to the CEO for potential acquisitions, working with external development teams, platform vision, service-to-product transition
- Coached Development team for alignment with business and product goals, better technical work habits toward predictable development cadence
- Managed outcomes from external Development team partners, reviewing their design to pare down on non-essential complexity
- Set up a lightweight hiring pipeline, worked with HR and external recruiters to hire Developers and Development Lead
- Guided Development leads in making long-term technical choices
- Consultant @ Nilenso _(June 2017 - May 2020)
- Software Architect @ Capgemini _(May 2006 - April 2017)
- Software Development Lead @ Tata Consultancy Services _(June 2002 - May 2006)
- I co-organize a Clojure Meetup in Kolkata, India. It's on temporary hiatus due to Covid-19.
- I am often tempted to move to Product Management since building the right thing is always going to be much harder than building the thing right. I completed an online Digital Product Management track from Coursera in 2020, but i can't seem to give up code.
- I can sometimes see in the dark when i get lost in a hike.