Robin Jayaswal
Verified Expert in Engineering
Gatsby Developer
Robin graduated top 2% of his class from Dartmouth College and went straight from school to Y Combinator 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.
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Experience
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ITerm, Slack, Vim Text Editor, MacOS
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.
Work Experience
Co-founder and CTO
College 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 Y Combinator as a founder and was directly involved in raising a seed round from top VC funds in San Francisco.
Software Engineering Intern
Smartcar
- 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.
Software Engineering Intern
Palantir 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.
Experience
College Pulse Mobile App
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/college-pulse/id1279952098CosmicJS CMS Command Line Tool
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cosmic-cliSkills
Languages
JavaScript, CSS, Sass, Python, SQL, GraphQL, TypeScript, Java, Go
Frameworks
Redux, Express.js, React Native
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, Polymer
Tools
Mongoose, Vim Text Editor, Slack, ITerm
Paradigms
REST API Architecture, Jamstack
Storage
MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Other
Full-stack, Web Development, Gatsby, Command-line Interface (CLI), Web Scraping, Surge Proxy Server, Front-end
Platforms
MacOS, AWS Lambda, Netlify
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH
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