- First Product Hire; Set up team from scratch and was able to deliver software at high-quality in a cost-effective manner by strategically investing in training, processes and tooling.- Transitioned Product Roadmap from D2C to SaaS to (ultimately) B2B oriented over the course of a year and a half of experimentation. Minimal disruption to the Sales and Operations teams along the way by working in small, fast, deliverable steps and optimizing for feedback.Disclosure Tool: Created a platform to allow 300+ brands to self-manage their plastic-footprint data. - Managed stakeholders spread all over the world to gather requirements and align on roadmap - Conducted competitive research to properly align Product to market expectations. - Drove user-research and aligned with domain experts to create a Product that's both technically sound and easy-to-use.reTrace Dawn: Web-tool to manage ~6 million kg of Plastic Credits per year - Untangled dependencies and streamlined processes - Drove user-research to understand waste-worker context - Aligned delivery across internal team and multiple external vendorsVarious: Wix Deprecation, Planet +ve Checkout (Shopify Plugin), rePurpose Rewards (Browser plugin), Credit Gifting revamp and others. Details available on request.

Was a small team that was just getting started, so was pretty hands on across the entire spectrum. The Product was aiming to make it easier for a Product Team to collect, tag and share insights collected during user interviews. To that end I worked on:- conducting user interviews, annotating and organizing insights- Roadmapping and planning with @Chirag and the rest of the team- Reviewing JDs and Interviewing potential candidates- Training, Code-Reviews and pair-programming to align frontend team on best practices- Set up CI/CD with the aim to reduce code-review & validation time- Setup Cypress as our integration test-framework.- Feature development, bugfixing, testing, verifying deployment

Highlights:- Built features with the Revenue team on Dream11's Mobile-Web Platform- Worked with others to develop a new & improved Component ADT (Abstract Data-Type) that would complement our frontend stack is based around, aiming to bring in even more type-safety & testability.- Was one of two developers who broke-ground on Dream11's new Desktop-First experienceIn addition, I was involved with:- initiatives to improve the quality of the hiring drives Dream11 conducted- strategic decision-making about current & future product-lines, and- various initiatives to improve DX & Software-Quality.

Joined in May to work on the new version of "Sealtabs" (our flagship Education ERP software) to build version 3 of their software with a modern software stack. We chose to implement it in Reactjs with Redux for state management.Since joining I've also been a key architect of for 3 additional projects, some for the mexican government,In addition I've also been involved with :- growing the technical team from two to ~8 members, including designers and contract employees,- setup team communication and code-quality guidelines,- setting up client-servicing frameworks so that conversations can be more user-centric and design focused,- setup bug and task tracking for both the technical and operations teams.- conceptualizing HR, hiring and culture policies to keep the team working smoothly.

Assorted Projects for Various Clients:- User Interaction Redesign and Implementation for Suggestionbox.tips (ongoing)- Project Management Tool (ProjectGuru) for Flexiple.com

I had the opportunity to work with Baylor University researchers who were planning a massive multi-year study across India:- The survey itself is several hundreds of questions long and needed to be digitized and implemented with all the various conditional logic across all the questions.- The survey also needs to be served in several languages so I helped facilitate that conversion process- Was able to also setup a communications system to coordinate all the teams across several locations, in two countries.- Was generally responsible for all manner of technology concerns over the entire project.

Lead developer on `Creative Connect` - An auditions site for performers- This was originally conceived as a platform to help Producers and Casting Directors in the entertainment industry to connect with talent and, on the other side, for people to get auditions and gigs more simply.- Currently it's a platform to potentially connect a much wider spectrum of talent with a wider pool of jobs.- I was lead developer on this project and worked pretty much solo over the complete life-cycle of the project from the requirements gathering stage to design to implementation and testing. We finally deployed a prototype that is being tested with users.The website is still under development and can be viewed here: http://creativeconnect.mod.bz/

Took a sabbatical to consider my next steps. Explored career options and skills like Data Science and Machine Learning through various courses and projects. Also spent time reconnecting with my health and relationships, which is when I picked up Slacklining.

iApps- Continuing in InternetApplications I assumed more responsibility for new features as well as important bugfixes.Security Task Force- In late 2013 I was also on a task force to improve the security of the car infotainment system.- Researchers have been able to hack into cars and take over the steering, braking and other critical systems for years. Typically this was done by getting people to play virus-infected music files or use compromised USB devices. However as more and more cars offer internet-enabled services it becomes much easier to attack an individual car remotely.- This task force was mainly charged with closing some of the security holes that were discovered by an independent penetration-testing team. The main focus was on trying to sandbox individual components so that they become less tempting targets for hackers.- This required changes both at the architecture level, as well as actual refactoring of application code to adhere to security guidelines.Training- I was also in charge of handling the training of two new joinees to the team and ensuring that they became contributing members as soon as possible. - Since they joined as freshers it took about 2 months until they could be put onto actual deliverables, but that was still a faster than average (as far as I know).

Navcopy- By late 2012 point I was the lead developer for the Navcopy component and oversaw some major concept changes in the architecture of the component as well as regular deliveries.iApps- In January 2013 I shifted to a new project to work on a component called InternetApplications (iApps). iApps is a webkit-based, automotive app-development framework that allows third parties to write and publish apps as HTML5 bundles that then get downloaded and run on users' cars.- My work was in developing the API's that would be used by these application developers, including maintenance and improvement of existing code.- In this role I was also sent for a 5 month deputation to Germany to get hands-on experience while also working closely with our customers there.Performance-optimization task force- In early 2013 I was in a task force focused on improving the start-up time of the iApps component to bring it to within acceptable levels.- This included working with tools such as SystemTap to analyze the exact operations that were consuming time on startup.

Navcopy- My main responsibility was as a developer for a component called Navcopy, which was responsible for keeping map-data in the infotainment system up-to-date. - I was responsible for customer interfacing, gathering requirements for changes, developing, testing and deploying new features.Map-Gestures Optimization Taskforce- In addition, I was also on a task force to optimize the performance of gestures on the Map application. - This task involved reverse engineering the current gesture-behavior, extracting timing details for the various gestures (pinch-zoom, spread, fling, etc), graphing the results, sharing reports with the various teams and suggesting improvements.- The tools I've used in these roles were IBM Clearcase for version control, JIRA for issue tracking, Visual Studio as an IDE, ETAS for automated testing, Eclipse Debugger for debugging and various internal proprietary tools for communication with the test target.