Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

• I primarily take backend-focused projects through Toptal, A.Team, Braintrust, or Andela. Organizations that I've worked with so far include Portal, ConsenSys, HiOperator, and NoteRouter.

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Remote

• Integrated Amazon SP-API as a third-party vendor into an existing Apollo-powered federated graph of various such vendors for a YCombinator S16 startup. It enabled users to re-order or get a refund for faulty products they received by themselves without any help from customer support.
• Designed, developed, and maintained a cross-seller inventory management and syncing solution for an early stage dropshipping company.
• Extended a defi product, end-to-end, allowing users’ to track their portfolio of crypto assets, like stablecoins & NFTs, for a seed stage startup backed by Coinbase. Also introduced behaviour-driven tests in the codebase for safer deployments and helped migrate the database from Postgres to PlanetScale for increased developer efficiency and collaboration.
• Developed the back-end of a cross-blockchain token bridging application for a major blockchain solutions provider backed by Microsoft. It enabled users to transfer said tokens to a better blockchain network in terms of security and liquidity. Users could also analyse prices, market cap, and TVL for the token in minute granularity.
• Automated creation of dynamic digital products to be advertised on Facebook for a social media marketing agency. The leads from ads were ingested using webhooks and an external distribution service was used for product delivery.
• Integrated a new vendor in the product ecosystem of a real estate startup which allowed for acquisition of 1000+ B2B customers. Also led a refactor & decreased a recurring use-case’s development time to ~3 weeks from the usual ~8 weeks.

Jun 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• I mainly looked after the communications and tracking infrastructure at smallcase.
• This involved integrating B2B APIs, building and enabling campaigns end-to-end across different mediums, working on systems that ingest data at scale, and maintaining databases that enabled analysis and insight - along with ensuring that all of these worked as intended every day.
• To that end, I learnt and worked with Node.js, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Mongo, AWS, Elasticsearch, Ansible, FCM etc.

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos

• Partially integrated Super Resolution to libXcam (https://github.com/intel/libxcam/).
• libXcam is an open-source camera library maintained by Intel's Linux Audio and Video team.

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019 · 4 mos · Jaipur Area, India

• Learnt about designing web platforms with PHP7, Drupal, and maintainable CSS; created internal projects with the same.

Apr 2018 – Aug 2018 · 4 mos

• Developed an open-source and cross-platform software, FabBits, that can catalogue interesting bits from sports and entertainment videos
• Catalogued goals in soccer matches, actor-specific scenes in movies, jokes in sitcoms, three-pointers in basketball etc with high accuracy
• Referred to more than 25 research papers over the course of summer
• Wrote blog posts (medium.com/@achie27) detailing the underlying concepts and progress

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos

• Worked in a team of two to implement a platform for teachers to gamify school-level curriculum under the edTech organisation EkShiksha
• Teachers could use various pre-built game scenarios and fit different questions/concepts to maximize students’ learning in a fun way
• Leveraged game statistics to find students’ performance in different areas for teacher evaluation
• Stood 3rd in the selection competition by making eight, high quality animations using Three.js for visualizing curricular experiments