Founder | CEO
2016 - PRESENTCodeAstra Software LLP- Founded an extreme web and mobile app development and consulting firm by bringing together amazing talent graduated from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and set up high standards for software delivery.
- Strove to keep himself and his team updated with the new technology by having hands-on experience.
- Helped several startups to bring their ideas to life.
Technologies: Angular, React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR), RubyFounder | CEO
2014 - 2016CodeAstra Coding Bootcamp- Founded and bootstrapped India's first coding bootcamp.
- Pivoted the business goals and curriculum to better fit the Indian market.
- Brought together an amazing team of developers-cum-mentors.
- Have been striving to stay updated with all new technologies. We have built two full-fledged apps using Angular 2 while it was still in the RC phase.
- Built a portal for a bootcamp that displays assignments for students as a game.
Technologies: Ionic, React, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), RubyProduct Manager
2014 - 2014Chronus Software India Pvt. Ltd.- Led an engineering team of 34 developers in a timely workflow and qualitative delivery of milestones.
- Encouraged in breaking off larger engineering teams to smaller teams which eventually resulted in a better performance.
- Setup a product lifecycle guideline that streamlined the flow of features from request stage to delivery stage.
- Facilitated the move of the design team from the US to India that not only cut the costs but also improved the turnaround time.
- Defined the mobile app specs and ensured smooth communication between design, development, sales, and product management teams.
Technologies: Product Management, ScrumEngineering Lead
2013 - 2013Chronus Software India Pvt. Ltd.- Led a team of seven engineers and two testers.
- Set up a development process that ensured almost zero post-deployment issues.
- Managed the engineering team in the timely delivery of milestones.
- Led the testing team in a complete rewrite of a testing suite to bring down the overall testing run time from 51 minutes to three minutes.
- Managed and led the engineering team in setting up almost zero downtime deployment using Chef.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), RubyCo-founder | CTO
2011 - 2013Thryv, Inc.- Singlehandedly bootstrapped a fully functional web product from scratch to sale.
- Set up the production and staging servers with almost zero downtime deployments.
- Led architectural decisions to comply with business goals by always having the web app ready for all key events in time with all the required features.
- Participated in a three-month incubation at Groundwork Labs, Durham.
- Built a robust and on-the-fly-scalable production stack that survived 970 concurrent requests without a crash.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), RubySoftware Design Engineer
2009 - 2011Chronus Software India Pvt. Ltd.- Bootstrapped a multi-million dollar web app as part of a team of three.
- Set up the production and staging servers on AWS using Capistrano.
- Optimized the search module by introducing Elasticsearch.
- Optimized the mentor-mentee matching algorithm by rewriting a few parts to use less memory and use a necessary redundancy.
- Introduced caching at various levels of the web application.
- Led the team in making a private and enterprise deployment of the web product.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), RubyWeb Developer | Student Volunteer
2005 - 2009Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)- Rewrote the university website as part of a team of four.
- Built a website for Shaastra, the annual technical festival of IIT Madras.
- Developed a website for Saarang, the annual cultural festival of IIT Madras.
- Upgraded the looks of IIT Madras' mechanical engineering department website.
- Constructed a website for Mandakini hostel, the hostel I stayed at while studying at IIT Madras.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP