Software Engineering Lead at Durable (Top 50 Hottest AI Startups of 2023)Company Mission: Durable is dedicated to empowering small businesses by streamlining complexity and advancing digitization through AI, allowing business owners to concentrate on essential work.Key Responsibilities:Team Leadership and Development: Spearhead the engineering team, focusing on talent growth and fostering a collaborative environment to drive innovation.Full Stack Development: Take charge of both front-end and back-end projects, employing a diverse technology stack to develop user-centric applications.Deployment Optimization: Architect and configure deployment workflows to streamline the release of new features and updates.Server Infrastructure Maintenance: Maintain and enhance the server infrastructure to ensure high reliability and performance.API Integration: Utilize APIs to facilitate deep integrations with the Durable platform, creating a more interconnected and resourceful ecosystem.Quality Assurance and Performance Optimization: Proactively identify and resolve bugs and performance bottlenecks, ensuring the delivery of high-quality applications.Continuous Improvement: Actively assess and implement changes to existing applications to adapt to evolving requirements and industry standards.Overall, my role as Software Engineering Lead at Durable is centered around leading technological innovation, fostering team growth, and ensuring the delivery of top-tier AI-powered solutions that empower small businesses.

As the lead engineer on the core product of Streamlabs @ Logitech, I am responsible for the product that serves 10s of millions of customers worldwide. My responsibilities include.1. Create a cohesive environment between front-end developers, back-end developers, designers, product managers, and the customer support team. 2. Do RnD to understand new features to improve the product, and help internal teams (i.e. Customer Support).3. Maintain and help upgrade the core infrastructure.4. Fix vulnerabilities and handle security-related issues. Perform a little bit of penetration testing on the side to make sure we are able to catch vulnerabilities beforehand.5. Own the product and continuously improve it based on a lot of factors. I actively try to gather feedback from our customer support teams, our tech leads, our product managers, and by talking to actual customers. I proactively look for and build entire products. My main effort is to build & own (end to end) a product that is cost-efficient, robust, scalable, loved by our customers, loved by our team, and loved by our devs.6. Develop and own entire product lifecycles. A few projects that I worked on and owned end-to-end are as follows. i) Lead, plan, create & maintain the AI pipeline that powers our company-wide products and serves over 50 million, combined customers. ii) Campaign Manager. iii) Logo maker, emote maker, youtube thumbnails, panel maker, and more. iv) Alertbox V2. v) Tackling infosec issues in our core. vi) Maintenance & upgrade of our core. vii) Helping in the maintenance of our production systems. viii) Complete overhaul of our legacy authentication system and migration towards a unified Streamlabs Identity system.

As part of one of the leads in the core software engineering team of Streamlabs @ Logitech, my main responsibilities are divided into categories and are as follows.As a Lead & Maintainer.1. Create a cohesive environment between front-end developers, back-end developers, designers, product managers, and customer support team. 2. Explore the open net and the data within the company to answer questions like What can be improved? What needs to be built? How can I support the customer support team better? How can I create a better UX for our users? How can I help in implementing a better integration of services across our teams and improve our existing systems? And many more.3. Make sure that the deployment lifecycle works correctly and keep our products up to date.4. Fix vulnerabilities and handle security-related issues. Perform a little bit of penetration testing on the side to make sure we are able to catch vulnerabilities beforehand.As a Product OwnerI understand the need for good products that our customers love. I always try to explore and see what we can build into our system. For this, I actively try to gather feedback from our customer support teams, our tech leads, our product managers, and by talking to actual customers. I pro-actively look for and build entire products. My main effort is to build & own (end to end) a product that is cost-efficient, robust, scalable, loved by our customers, loved by our team, and loved by our devs.As a DeveloperAt the end of the day, I am a developer at heart so I try to develop and own entire product lifecycles. A few projects that I worked on and owned end to end are as follows.1. Campaign Manager.2. Logo maker, emote maker, youtube thumbnails, panel maker, and more.3. Alertbox V2.4. Tackling infosec issues in our core.5. Maintenance & upgrade of our core.6. Helping in the maintenance of our production systems.

As a senior backend engineer and part of the core team, I was responsible for maintaining and upgrading the infrastructure necessary to run the alerts system of StreamLabs.My core responsibilities included but were not limited to the following.1. Cooperate with users and product managers to collect business requirements. Translatebusiness requirements to system requirements and logical specifications for systemarchitecture.2. Research new technical information to design better and more functional softwarearchitecture.3. System and network architecture design. Backend and frontend software development(in PHP, node.js, JavaScript). Databases and other storage systems modeling.4. System administration. Deployment of new releases of the web application. Servers anddatabase monitoring, site reliability engineering. New infrastructure units instantiation(servers, block storages, databases, etc).5. Produce high-quality code, test it during the development cycle, and fix production andother issues. Produce clean, consistent documentation and installation manuals.6. Cooperation with team members to achieve company goals.

JumpRampGames is a US-based advertisement targeted gaming platform with a customer base between 10 Million - 50 Million end-users, it allows the players to play scratch cards based games and win awards including gift cards and cash.On the back-end, the company has a gigantic setup to allow players seamless and consistent play, plus to provide them with new opportunities and daily rewards.In order to maintain all these services through a single point of contact, the company decided to build an internal CMS. I created the initial architecture of that CMS in Laravel 5.3 and Java micro-services and now maintaining it for over a year.My primary responsibilities in the company were as follows.1. Work on back-end core PHP, MySQL to support the main platform that supports the client-side.2. Work on Python, Java (as secondary languages) for different services that support the back-end.3. Work with AWS related services (S3. EC2, Athena, IAM, EBS), etc.4. Work as a full stack web developer in Laravel to support the internal CMS.5. Be proficient with CI/CD, Jenkins, Git (they are intensively used within the company).My main achievements were as follows.1. Created automation for processes within the company that affect the main product Lucktastic.2. Created CMS for company-wide processes to aid the entire company in driving the revenue higher and application forward.3. Introduced the concept of the scheduler and implemented a custom scheduler in the CMS to automate every process in the company.4. Helped in moving away from simple crontab to much more solid architectures and building an ecosystem around it, elevating slack notifications, and real-time analytics.5. Modified the campaign engine that drove the revenue of the company and extended it to different compositions and formation for much granular control and options.6. Helped in migrating towards microservices.7. Archived 324 million+ records in DB based on many years of data in RDS.

As part of the open-source team at SSI, I had the opportunity to work on some of the following projects.VirtueAn Inventory management system designed for hierarchical control of companies that support the franchise-based business model.I did some maintenance work on the above-mentioned system as a full stack web developer in Laravel PHP.Strive OnI was a part of the development team of IoT-based applications which provides users the ability to increase their knowledge-base by exploring different geo points while having fun activities like scavenger hunts etc.It was developed using both Laravel and lumen (Laravel for web and Lumen for REST API). I also worked on integrating a real-time chat service into the app using FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging system).Human Business Intelligence (HBI)As part of the core development team, my work was mostly related to RnD, I was responsible for integrating services to extract images and text from PDF documents then index them on Apache Solr in real-time.Lucktastic (JumpRampGames)Currently working as an outsourced engineer for JumpRampGames by SSI on the back-end of their app Lucktastic.

The main services provided by pulse inc were in the healthcare sectors and the following were the major services that were provided.1. Medicine delivery service at doorsteps.2. Personal virtual assistant to monitor the health of the patient.3. Personal medicine dosage assistant.The entire system was developed in Laravel PHP, Javascript, Bootstrap 3.0, and machine learning-based services written in Python.As the co-founder and technology head, I architect-ed the technology stack, developed the final product, and made it available to the general public.

Aquila Labs was a tech startup concentrating on educational industry and products, It specialized in providing custom solutions to schools and universities regarding learning management and student career optimization. Core products of the company were as follows1. Learn Up (learning management system developed in React JS, Python).2. Udemy type portal for teachers to provide content for students to read and learn.As its co-founder, I created and architect-ed the technology stack of the entire company and made it available to the general public.

As part of the batch team, I was under mentorship to learn the system, pass the PCI compliance and get ready to handle payment processing pipelines.

Worked on multiple technologies to create systems varying from Android apps and web-based responsive apps to cloud-based setups for high-performance computations.

Worked on DNS front-end and it’s interfacing with the backend services to provide end-users a reliable portal to create and manage DNS entries for VMs.