Co-founder and CTO
2016 - PRESENTCollege Pulse- Hired and managed a team of engineers. Responsible for sprint planning, work delegation, and all other aspects of management.
- Developed a consumer web and mobile app for surveying college students—reached 15,000 daily users and 1+ million monthly survey submits. Built the mobile app in React Native for iOS and Android. Reached the top 100 in the App Store social category.
- Scaled MongoDB database to handle complex aggregations on collections with tens of millions of items. Ensured efficient indexing and composition of queries to keep increasingly heavy operations at subsecond speed.
- Attended YCombinator as a founder and was directly involved in raising seed round from top VC funds in San Francisco.
Technologies: JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, Express.js, React, React Native, GraphQL, JAMStack, Netlify, SurgeSoftware Engineering Intern
2017 - 2017Smartcar- Built developer SDKs for Node.js, Python, and Java. These SDKs allowed apps to seamlessly interact with the APIs of different car manufacturers.
- Developed numerous sample applications on top of these SDKs for testing. These included simple web apps and used AWS Lambda functions to turn IoT hardware into a car key.
- Contributed to various work on several web apps (Node.js+Express back end, Polymer front end). Overhauled authentication system to implement two-factor auth and social sign in. Built out a user roles and permissions system.
- Worked with a PostgreSQL database, wrote several migrations that made significant structural changes to database for new features.
- Wrote extensive unit tests using the Mocha framework for all changes.
Technologies: Polymer, Node.js, Python, Java, SQL, Postgres, AWS LambdaSoftware Engineering Intern
2017 - 2017Palantir Technologies- Owned the design and development of a data dashboard for senior-level employees of a US government agency.
- Migrated parts of the back end to Golang, resulting in significant speed improvements when operating on large scale data.
- Integrated several internal tools in a novel way, working directly with the individual product teams owning each product at the company to support my team's use case.
Technologies: JavaScript, Typescript, Golang, Java, React
Robin Jayaswal
Software Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States
Member since April 8, 2019
Robin graduated in the top 2% of his class from Dartmouth College and went straight from graduation to YCombinator in San Francisco with his startup. He has since raised over a million dollars in VC funding and his startup's clients include global banks, public companies, and political organizations. At his startup, he manages an engineering team and has built from the ground up a production tech stack that supports tens of thousands of daily users and millions of survey responses a month.
Robin is now available for hire
Portfolio
- College PulseJavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, Express.js, React, React Native, GraphQL...
- SmartcarPolymer, Node.js, Python, Java, SQL, Postgres, AWS Lambda
- Palantir TechnologiesJavaScript, Typescript, Golang, Java, React
Experience
- React 4 years
- Node.js 4 years
- MongoDB 4 years
- REST API Architecture 4 years
- JavaScript 4 years
- Python 3 years
- React Native 2 years
- GatsbyJS 1 year
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Vim, Slack, iTerm
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is the tech stack for the company I founded—back-end, web clients, and mobile apps. The iOS app was ranked in top 100 lists on the App Store.
Employment
Experience
- College Pulse Mobile App (Development)https://apps.apple.com/us/app/college-pulse/id1279952098
A React Native-based mobile app for iOS and Android. As CTO, I was the lead developer on both the back end and mobile app. Students sign up to take surveys and discuss results with their community, and the app makes heavy use of d3.js for data visualizations.
- CosmicJS CMS Command Line Tool (Development)https://www.npmjs.com/package/cosmic-cli
A command-line interface for the CosmicJS platform. It allows users to create, read, update, and delete objects in their content management system from the command line. I was the developer on this tool from concept to release and worked closely with the company's leadership to add features and define the specs.
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, CSS, Sass, Python, Java, GolangFrameworks
Redux, React NativeLibraries/APIs
Node.js, React, GatsbyJSTools
MongooseParadigms
REST API ArchitectureStorage
MongoDB, PostgreSQLIndustry Expertise
Web DevelopmentOther
Full-stack, Command Line Interface (CLI), Web Scraping, Front-end
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science2014 - 2018Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH
