Jan 2013 – Jan 2024 · 11 yrs

• Started Hot Cocoa Software, a technology company providing product engineering services. Especially proud of the work we did for ixigo, I architected and built their mobile app. They have over 100 million users now.
• Other success stories
• Dell: 20,000 of their employees & drivers use apps we built for their daily transport
• Tapzo: We built their Android app. Acquired by Amazon
• Micromax (one of India’s biggest smartphone maker): a launcher app offering aggregated, commonly-used services for their flagship Yu line of smartphones
• Convergys: 10,000 of their employees use apps we built for daily transport
• Vorto.ai: helped some of the largest Oil & Gas companies in North America reduce $500 million in annual costs

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

• Acquired by IndiaMART's 10times.com.
• Joined my college friend to cofound the events & activities recommendation startup.
• Part of first batch of GSF accelerator program.
• Put together, managed, and trained the core technical team.
• Developed and designed the application to help users discover places, events, and activities in their neighborhood.
• Populated relevant information from our data partners using Python scripts and wrote an API to be consumed by the application.
• Helped raised seed funding from some of India's most prominent investors and received coverage in TechCrunch, TheNextWeb, The Times of India.

Sep 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr

• Built an identification guide iOS app for the shorefish fauna of the Tropical Eastern Pacific for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
• Created a personal dining journaling iOS app for foodies allowing users to search, rate, and review nearby restaurants. Implemented functionality for users to record meals at a restaurant that get rolled up into a list of all the meals they've had there, making it easy to recall past experiences and see what dishes they loved or hated.
• Created a simple, professional digital protractor iOS app that auto-finds angles (using real-time image processing algorithms) with a single touch or allows manual calculation from images stored in the user's phone.
• Built an enterprise iPad app for maintaining the portfolio and trading stocks for a California based company.
• Built an iPhone and iPad app to help school teachers with classroom management for a UK based company.

May 2011 – Sep 2011 · 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• 3D data processing on Kinect, computer vision and image processing

Jul 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs

• Worked on the backend and built software for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
• Built an inventory management system for traders. Positions available from various lender accounts were ingested (through Autosys jobs using EJBs) and provided to traders in an easy-to-use GUI.
• Built a document repository system (for outgoing/incoming confirmations and rates like LIBOR) which automated the handling and processing of documents.
• Reduced the response time of systems by redesigning the database and optimizing database queries.
• Technologies: Java, Perl, C/C++, Hibernate, Spring, JDBC, Autosys, Fitnesse, EJBs, WebLogic, Sybase, DB2, SQL, HTML, Perforce, CVS, Aqua Data Studio, DBArtisan, J2EE, Leela, Qmon, PuTTy