Subir Chowdhuri Email & Phone Number

United States

I drive all technical decisions and architect our projects, ensuring we're always at the cutting edge. I set the tone for our engineering culture which is the backbone of our company's success. We take pride in our engineering culture and developer experience! I ensure we foster an environment where innovation thrives and our engineers can do their best work.My other responsibilities notwithstanding, I continue to be a passionate hands-on engineer. On any given day, you'll find me churning out code, reviewing pull requests, mentoring team members, and managing our infrastructure.

San Francisco Bay Area

I dabble in all things tech at Akava, ranging from web and mobile frontend, API backends, infrastructure and architecture. I also lead the technology team at Akava's Innovation Lab.

San Francisco Bay Area

Inspiring the next generation of software engineers

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Worked with uPort, building a self-sovereign, decentralized identity platform built on Ethereum- Primarily tasked with rapid-prototyping uPort's technical partnership projects with Onfido (onfido.com) and GLEIF (gleif.org)- Principal developer of uPort's SaaS offering - the Serto Trust Agent- Built the uPort demo - uPortlandia (uportlandia.uport.me) which made it to the finals of NYC BigApps 2019 (www.bigapps.nyc) and was featured at their Blockchain Demo Day event- As part of uPort's Developer Experience team, I worked extensively on building boilerplate/starter templates for Serverless (AWS Lambdas or Azure Functions) projects, and automating the setup and deploy process- Revamped the uPort Developer portal (developer.uport.me) to follow mobile-first, responsive design paradigm

Worked on building the next-generation, intelligent, monetization platform. Functioned as a full-stack engineer with agile project management sprinkled on top. - Principal contributor to the Polymorph self-serve, client-facing portal (ReactJS, Redux, Django)- Built the automated payment processing pipeline from the ground up (Python, Stripe, Braintree)

As the only front-end engineer at Nifty Window, I had been solely responsible for building the UI for all Nifty Window products - be it public-facing website, the self-service portal for B2B clients, HTML5 widgets for third-party websites, or the hundreds of micro-websites generated by the Nifty Window platform.Additionally, I was the go-to man for creating stand-alone utilities, data-processing and sanitization pipeline, which make life easier for the content-management team.The best part of working at Nifty Window was the freedom to take on multiple roles. Be it a product photographer, product evangelist or a graphics designer - I have had a fun time putting my non-programming skills to use.

Bangalore, India

Role - Contractor to PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) US & UKFunction - Full-stack web developer, UX/UI consultantWorked as part of a team distributed over Tampa (Florida), London, Uruguay, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Covered end-to-end development, including- creating high-fidelity wireframes (mock screens) per user requirement- developing the front-end for web-applications- writing server-side APIs- conducting usability reviews- conducting client branding reviewsAlso pioneered the adoption of new technologies through proof-of-concept (PoC) projects.Conducted workshops and training sessions focused on UX/UI best practices.

The business mainstay was building web and native (desktop) apps for small businesses, mostly in the retail sector. Additionally, provided Graphics Design and Animation services.Expanded into the SaaS space by providing a content authoring platform. In an era before Wordpress it enabled tech laypeople to publish content online.