Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Remote

• On a mission to solve cost and usage problem for customers developing and maintaining critical products and solutions on usage based products such as cloud, data and AI/ML models. Our first use case is cloud cost management covering AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes.

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Solo founder working on a hassle-free privacy-friendly and open-source analytics service.
• Tech stack: FastAPI, Postgresql, TimescaleDB, Vue.js, Vuetify, Typescript, Python, DigitalOcean, Docker Swarm

Nov 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Undertook large scale changes to improve conversion rate on landing pages by increasing search relevancy, bringing about significant SEO improvements and implementing A/B tests.
• Responsible for mentoring and managing a team of 5 developers and also bridging gaps between front-end and back-end developers.
• Improved (decreased) backend response time by optimizing database schemas and queries.
• Technologies: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Django, Celery, Solr, Kubernetes, Postgres

Aug 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• As lead developer worked with CTO and designed and wrote the API which powers the Maxwell Shopify product for recovering abandoned carts using Messenger.
• Rebuilt the deployment setup and moved from triggering complex scripts to a simplified Docker Swarm setup. Streamlined the CI/CD setup.
• Technologies: NodeJS, Python, Flask, Express, React, MongoDB, Postgres, React, Shopify, Microservices, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm

Feb 2015 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Responsible for modernisation of several high profile websites in the Netherlands, viz.: Dumpert, Geenstijl, Autobahn and Upcoming. Kickstarted the modernisation project, guided the rest of the development team with technical and architectural decisions to ensure security, maintainability, and scalability of the new platform.
• Involved in both back end and front end development. Set up and managed the infrastructure of the new platform. Designed the code bases with continuous integration and deployment baked in for single step deploys. Reviewed pull requests and provided constructive feedback to other developers.
• Technologies: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, React, CircleCI, Celery, AWS, Heroku, SaltStack

Sep 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore

• Freelance remote software consultant for CPAP.com and related properties. Responsibilities included modernising, optimising and security auditing code.

May 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Content Agility platform at Yahoo! powers content (eg: news articles, product listings) acquisition, processing enhancement, storage and delivery for front end properties. Tracking the content allows it to be resent through the pipeline in the event of loss or corruption, ensuring timely delivery. Content tracker provides a client library for integration and a web interface to track these assets in near real time.
• Ongoing work for improving the scalability based on performance analysis of the tracking platform including significant database optimizations. Adding features as required by stake holders. Developed the web UI for the platform in YUI 3.

Jul 2010 – Apr 2011 · 9 mos

• Analysed user requirements and developed an analytics solution for the new Yahoo! Local version from scratch allowing users to drill down statistics from a summarised version down to granular details.

Feb 2009 – May 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• As a student systems administrator, managed existing proxy, LDAP and web servers.