Sep 2020 – Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• https://shashwatsescape.in/
• Shashwat's Escape Rooms provided everyone with a set of online escape room experiences, which I tried to model on the actual process followed inside a room.
• Steal a diamond, prevent a kidnapping, and save Santa Claus, all while solving fun, interesting puzzles and enjoying the experience. There were also various difficulties, to give everyone something to try out, from kids to adults.

Oct 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I head the Engagement Team at ShareChat, where I work on product strategies for improving long-term retention, and enhancing the ShareChat app to better engage with our users.
• At a startup, one has to wear many hats, so, I also help with team management, and building processes (like regular sprint cycles, update meetings, cross-functional team transparency, company-wide updates) to help with ShareChat's transition from a small startup with a handful of developers to a fast-growing organisation.
• I've also worked on tasks helpful from an engineering standpoint, like an automated testing framework, building the analytics infrastructure, a new developer on-boarding wiki, notification improvements, and building tools to improve developer efficiency.
• Additionally, I have worked as the product manager for the Data Science team to drive changes in the ShareChat feed algorithms, and user-targeting algorithms.

Jul 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• HackerRank is a fast growing technical talent community used by programmers to hone their coding skills and by companies to recruit tech talent.
• Full-stack developer, working on Ruby on Rails, BackboneJS, and ReactJS.
• Worked with MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Redshift, Elasticsearch, SQS, and Resque, among other technologies used at HackerRank.
• Major contributor to the entire email sending, tracking, analysis, and automation, and optimization infrastructure.
• Built and improved user profile data collection and analysis infrastructure built over Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Enhanced the markdown-like syntax used across HackerRank.
• Apart from these projects, helped build various features for the HackerRank community-facing site to help drive growth, retention, and engagement.

Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr · Kanpur Area, India

• Led a 4-tier team of 200 members to facilitate placement of 1,200 students of the graduating batch. Constituted and spearheaded an internship team to manage the internship process of 680 students.
• Achieved best placement performance in terms of number of students placed. Achieved best placement performance since 2010 in terms of percentage of students placed. Achieved maximum number of interested companies.
• Revamped and debugged the company Content Management System, and the Job Application Portal. Enhanced the preparation process - Invited British Council for placement preparation. Improved Alumni-Student relations, and student awareness using Career Awareness Workshops.
• Achieved 14% growth in number of international companies - confirmed major first-time recruiters like Samsung Korea.

Jan 2013 – Jul 2013 · 6 mos · Kanpur Area, India

• Worked with Dr. Ashutosh Sharma for 4 months from January 2013 to May 2013. Worked on a novel way to fabricate nanofiber and nanofiber films.
• Worked with Dr. Rajiv Sinha for 2 months from June 2013 to July 2013 (on the Kosi river avulsion). Published one paper, "Exploring the channel connectivity structure of the August 2008 avulsion belt of the Kosi River, India: Application to flood risk assessment" in Geology (2013).