Jan 2019 – Nov 2024 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Remote

• I was part of the original team(freelance) to work on the closed beta along with the founder Thejo and one frontend-dev.
• Currently in a senior IC role responsible for
• Scaling our Infra which includes databases, caching, task processing, event bus systems and CI/CD systems.
• Looking out for problems with something in common across the org/product-squads and building abstractions for them. Sometimes this means "buy", sometimes "build".
• Being the "Python" guy in the company and instill the "Zen of Python", and stop eager new devs from writing new classes all the time!
• Fight complexity on all fronts be it code or processes.
• Maintaining code quality across the entire company. Introducing things like typing(mypy, Typescript), testing(unit, integration, property based, mutation etc.) and some metrics to go along with it like(coverage, maintainability indices).
• Responsible for all things Platform, Devops and Security
• Keep an eye out for the gaps in development processes, team knowledge and how to fill them.
• Trying to be one step ahead of an aggressively growing team, codebase, services, clients etc.

Feb 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

Dec 2015 – Sep 2016 · 9 mos · Remote

• Helping build the next Health-as-a-Service platform for enterprises.
• Helped launch http://www.igrowfit.com, a fitness subscription platform

May 2014 – Apr 2015 · 11 mos · Remote

• Helping build a platform for advertisers to work with YouTube advocates. The platform was originally built on Google Appengine, and Cloud SQL and later moved to Amazon Web Services.
• Brands rely on Grapevine advocates to create compelling, trustworthy, and original content reaching millions of engaged consumers every day.
• Press:
• https://pevc.dowjones.com/Article?an=DJFVW00120150210eb2aavbxo
• http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2015/02/marketing-tech-startup-grapevine-to-move-into-new.html
• http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/10/grapevine-unearths-1-1m-to-grow-some-more-youtube-product-stars/
• http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/02/10/youtube-marketing-software-grapevine-raises-funding-of-1-1m/

Aug 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

• Built the new service by Intuit called CPASelect, to connect people with accountants
• See https://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com
• Helped scale it on Amazon Web Services for tax season.
• Setting up tools and processes for dev, sys-admin/ops, security, scaling, monitoring, analytics.
• Getting other inhouse devs upto speed on technology, and required skill set.
• Manage our dev workflow, backlog and sprints.
• Improvements on conversion, iterating on the design and flow of the app.
• Press:
• http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/08/intuit-cto-tayloe-stansbury-on-how-the.html
• http://www.zdnet.com/intuits-latest-service-hooks-up-small-businesses-with-accountants-7000011141/
• http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/blog/10878200/cpa-select-for-turbotax-is-also-good-for-cpas
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026722/intuit-previews-mint-home-and-business-turbotax-cpa-select.html
• http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/news/10851053/intuit-connects-smbs-with-cpas-with-new-turbotax-cpa-select-offering
• http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/29/intuit-23-new-product/
• http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Intuit-Offers-CPA-Selection-Service-TurboTax-Users-65690-1.html?ET=webcpa:e6699:164341a:&st=email

Jul 2012 – Sep 2012 · 2 mos

• Helped build http://www.ecomarket.com
• or which was earlier called http://ethicalcommunity.com.
• Press
• http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/eco-market-the-etsy-for-eco-rebrands-revamps-raises-prepares-a-u-s-launch/
• http://www.treehugger.com/green-jobs/eco-market-etsy-eco.html
• http://thenextweb.com/uk/2012/03/15/meet-the-uk-startup-that-plans-to-be-the-etsy-for-ethical-goods/

Jan 2010 – Dec 2017 · 7 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Cloudshuffle is interactive web development agency that loves to create beautiful web applications. We specialize in building apps in Python.
• Managed a dozen live projects in parallel at any given week.
• Helped various startups go from an idea to an actual launch, while handling everything from technical, marketing, to biz dev, and strategic decisions.
• Some of the products that we've helped build:
• https://compt.io - Manage employee stipends and perks in a company.
• https://www.joypost.me - Send beautiful real postcards via the postal service to loved ones with just a text.
• http://www.moonliteapp.com - Manage your freelance projects, clients and get paid.
• http://airbase.io/ - Manage and control hundreds of online subscriptions in your organization from one place.
• http://www.igrowfit.com - Corporate fitness subscription platform for Singapore.
• http://www.grapevinelogic.com - app for advertisers to work with Youtube content creators and marketers.
• http://www.careervillage.org - Career advice students can trust, from real-life professionals
• http://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com - Intuit's online offering to help you connect with a CPA to get your taxes done. Now rebranded as Turbotax PersonalPro. Formerly Teaspiller.com
• http://www.igrowfit.com - A fitness subscription app in Singapore for corporate clients. Direct to consumers coming soon.
• http://publish.saxo.com - publishing platform where anyone can publish e-books, and soon printed books (print on demand) and online courses.
• http://www.hypedsound.com - A single place to share all your audio, video, photos and other creative endeavours in one place.
• http://www.knowyourbank.com - Helping you find the perfect bank for you.
• http://www.fertilityplanit.net - A social forum for women seeking help on fertility and pregnancy issues.
• http://www.fratmusic.com - An online radio, that serves over 1.3 million uniques a week.
• Some of our high profile clients also include Intuit, Compete, Hubspot

Dec 2009 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Developed an online market place for tax experts using Django/jQuery.
• Designed the data model for various parts of the system and scaled the infrastructure using Amazon EC2, S3 and EBS.
• Worked on their payment solution via Braintree.
• Designed and implemented their click-to-call, IVR functionality over Twilio.
• Responsible for various system admin tasks.
• Setting up integration/deployment processes
• Application security testing and setting up related processes/policies.
• Technology:
• Python/Django
• jQuery, Javascript
• MySQL
• Apache
• Amazon AWS, EBS and S3
• memcached, Amazon ElastiCache
• Django-haystack
• Solr (JTeam Spatial Search Plugin for Solr), Xapian
• Celery
• Redis
• Other APIs/Tools:
• Twilio
• Git
• Fabric, pip, virtualenv
• Geopy extended, to work with Yahoo Placemaker APIs
• Sendgrid Parse APIs
• Press:
• http://mashable.com/2011/08/15/finance-management-apps/
• http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/25/teaspiller-launch/
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/edzitron/2011/03/29/teaspiller-and-taxes/
• http://www.accountingtoday.com/debits_credits/New-Service-Aims-to-Help-Clients-Find-Accountants-57038-1.html

Mar 2009 – Jan 2010 · 10 mos

• Developing a web based electronic health record platform using Django/jQuery
• Designed the database schema, and responsible for general system administration
• Took most of the technology decisions and platform choices for the same
• Set up processes, tools for version control and project management in the company
• Front end sales role, including sales pitches and technical demos to clients
• Sales strategy and pricing for the Indian healthcare market
• Technology:
• Python/Django
• jQuery
• MySQL
• Google AppEngine
• Apache
• Amazon AWS and S3
• Other APIs/Tools:
• Google GData
• Twilio
• Google Visualization
• Git

Aug 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Courses:
• 1. Advanced Computer Graphics. (Graduate level)
• 2. Introduction to Logic and Functional Programming. (Graduate level)
• 3. Introduction to Database Systems. (Undergraduate level)

Dec 2006 – May 2007 · 5 mos

• Worked exclusively on the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Deployed Knowledge Network over the same, and developed custom web parts for Sharepoint. Worked with Windows Workflow Foundation (.Net 3.0) and contributed to designing custom actions for the Sharepoint designer.
• Was assigned an additional project in a team of four, for the development, design, testing of a "Digital Forms 2.0" prototype, an in-house workflow application over the Sharepoint platform.