I designed, developed and released a game.The game is called Konkan Coast Pirate Solutions. It's a cozy puzzle game about helping pirate ships do pirate things. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2156410/Konkan_Coast_Pirate_Solutions/It took a while, but I really think that the time spent reflects; the game is more coherent, and the experience is more meaningful.Over the course of this experience, I learnt a lot about game design, marketing and how Steam/Valve works overall.I hope to use these learnings in all the work that I do in the future.

I was honoured and grateful to be selected as a part of the 2023 Astra Fellowship cohort.https://www.astragames.org/fellowship/fellows

After working at fast paced startups for a while, I needed a break. I got to travel to various parts of the country, speak to a host of fascinating people and eat some downright fabulous food.I also had the opportunity to stop and think. Time away from the mindless grind. I got to step back, and take a look and see what this was all about.Over my glorious unemployment I got to;- Volunteer at a surfing school in Mulki - https://mulki.samhattangady.com/- Contrast the two halves of Varkala against each other- Witness the confluence of the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal- Attempt to figure out what Auroville actually is...- Spend 10 days meditating in silence.- Eat the best aloo tikki in Jaipur.- Trek to the top of the highest hills in Pushkar- Take a large detour just to each kachori in Jodhpur- Conduct an investigation as to how every single hotel is Udaipur is "lake-view"- Organise my own pilgrimage through Ahmedabad - https://ahmedabad.samhattangady.com/- Savour so many sunrises and sunsets... They never get old.Of course, a bunch of the year was also spent locked down at home. I spent some of that time actually trying to engineer what I might actually want my days to be like, atleast from a career standpoint. We end up just getting stuck in the career funnels, and never get to ask the question. If I have to spend large parts of the rest of my life in a particular routine, what do I actually want my routine to look like?How do I work to most optimise output, happiness and productivity?What should I be spending my life working on?What are the salient factors of my work that I would most like to have control over.Of course these were just the questions. Questions come a lot easier than answers.

Indee was my first experience working with an established product, and getting the chance to improve it, as the company went from small independent clients, to larger enterprise clients. I got the chance to -- Implementation of multiple DRM clients for video encryption.- Integrate Rich Text Editing features for custom emails, backend and front end.- Granular permission data for all enterprise roles.- System wide improvements with regard to reducing cloud costs.- Updating APIs to work with multiple clients.- Improved analytics views and functionality.The stack at Indee consisted of;Backend: Python Django, PostGreSQL, S3, ECS, nginx etc.Frontend: VueJS, nuxtjs, jwplayer, quilljs etc.Working at Indee taught me a different side of product development. I got the chance to interact with customers and figure out the requirements, and then implement them in ways that would best suit the product. It was a great experience, and I got to learn a lot.

As one of the first developers at Skylark Drones, I was fortunate enough to be faced with the widest possible range of problems that needed to be solved. Over my tenure at Skylark, I worked on a wide variety of internal and external tools and solutions like;- An automated data pipeline running on the cloud, that took drone images, ran several processing operations, and prepared the output to be ready for viewing on the web.- Several web-based POCs that showcased the different use cases of data captured by drone. This included projects involving videos, maps, and 3D models.- A data uploader that automatically uploaded data from on-field whenever network connectivity was available.- Internal tools to segregate data based on various parameters.- Internal hiring tools to streamline our hiring process, with automated mail parsing linked to our Trello hiring board.Over the course of working on these projects, I was exposed to several languages and frameworks;- Python (Flask, Django, PyQt, matplotlib, numpy+shapely)- JS (Vue, leaflet, threejs)- AWS (EC2, SQS, S3 etc.)And a whole lot more.Due to the size of the company, and the nature of my duties, I got the opportunity to play many roles;- Software Development (Frontend, Backend, Desktop, Cloud)- Product Design UI and UX- Product Management- Recruitment- Marketing and Content WritingOverall, working with Skylark Drones was an absolute pleasure. I had the opportunity to work with some really great and passionate people, on interesting projects and overall got to grow a lot as an individual.

As a first working experience after completing my Mechanical Engineering, EpZeta gave me a great platform to learn. As a part of the 2 developer team, I got to really test my self-learned skills as a developer, and the experience was great.My role was to integrate the existing machine-learning and data-science models into a usable web backend that would function as the companies proof of concept. Over the course of that I also managed to work on a bit more;- Developed proof of concept for a recommender system service.- Was in charge of backend web development including implementation of ReST services and hosting.- Employed various machine learning techniques, including natural language processing (tfidf, lda) and genetic algorithms.- Created several data visualizations to aid in the development process.This experience really taught me that I enjoy the software development process and that I sheer effort and determination is rewarded in this field.