SupraOracles

Senior Software Engineer

July 2021 - May 2022

Team Size - 12

Developed modules on the Threshold Signature Verification, Tribe Clan setup for the SupraOracle protocol; built from scratch in Rust (Stable). Evaluated Substrate framework. Performed distributed tests to determine the best parameters (packet size, raptor code chunk parameters) for TCP and UDP protocols for optimal data transmission efficiency.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understand and implement the Supra consensus protocol.
• Mentor team members new to Rust.
• Dockerize Rust application.
• Deploy, scale the service on AWS and do performance tests.

KeepWorks

Senior Software Engineer

January 2021 - July 2021

Team Size - 40

Worked on the DashX application's admin panel module, which sets up the core services before any of the opt-in services provided by the application could be added by the users.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Built core APIs for Subscription and End user registrations using Rust Actix Web.
• Created (using Dbmate) DB schemas (Postgres, Diesel); maintained core gRPC APIs; interfaced the APIs with GraphQL queries and mutations.
• Used Rust Proc Macros to auto transform GraphQL queries to corresponding gRPC messages.

Squbix

Software Developer

March 2020 - December 2020

Team Size - 8

The MetablockChain project wants to bring the benefits of crypto-currencies into the fold of sovereign countries. The CBDC can be pegged to national banks and they control the governance. This would provide greater price stability and user accountability. I worked on converting the existing Python APIs to Rust APIs.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Interfacing with stakeholders to understand requirements, convert those to technical specifications.
• Creating APIs using - Rust, Actix-Web, Diesel

TheInformedIndian

Sole Proprietor

Oct 2016 - February 2020

Team Size - 1

Built an affiliate marketing website using Wordpress that reviewed wireless Bluetooth headphones. 

Servers were hosted on GCP, DigitalOcean and Hetzner. An open source shell script "Server Init Harden" was created and used to take care of the Linux server security. Keyword research was done using Semrush & Ahref. The long-tailed-low-competition keywords were further reduced using the open source AWK script "Low Competition Keyword Finder". On-page technical SEO was carried out.

Western Digital SanDisk

Technical Lead

February 2016 - September 2016

Team Size - 3

Built ASP.NET MVC application to keep track of the firmware release schedule of all the USB portable devices manufactured by Sandisk. Data stored in various formats (MS Dynamics CRM, JIRA) across the organisation spread across various teams was synced, cleaned, aggregated and displayed on JS HighChart graphs on the webpage. The web application was developed in ASP.NET MVC with Jquery and Bootstrap 4 frontend.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for the application.
• Requirement gathering: making sense of business requirements and converting that into technical spec.
• Interface with stakeholders: keep all the key stake holders on the same page.
• Design Bootstrap 4 web application.
• Creating database objects (Oracle): tables, store procedures.

NetApp

Member Technical Staff

July 2011 - December 2014

Team Size - 20

Improved the existing ASP.NET MVC web & C# console application, which was slow and unstable. Some of the improvements undertaken were: using the C# Task Parallel library, improving database architecture, tuning PL/SQL queries and maintaining a local cache of infrequently changing data; thus decreasing the time to generate reports from 72 to 12 hours, with more simultaneous report processing and adding more types of reports to the application. I started as a Senior Developer and graduated to Technical Lead on the same project.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Technical lead, Mentor: mentor junior team members on ASP.NET. Find places for improvements in the application, design the module and implement it.
• Collaborate: Facilitate time-bound data (Oracle, MS SQL, CSV, REST) sync to our system, with a clear escalation path.
• Single point of contact for the application.

Mphasis

Delivery Software Engineer

March 2010 - July 2011

Team Size - 8

Created a retirement planning tool for Charles Schwab bank's customers. Used Microsoft’s charting library (MS Charts) to create asset, sustainable spending, cash flow and probability graphs along with summary. The application gathered information from the internal SOAP service.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Module Lead: sync with our onsite engineer to understand the requirements and divide the task among 2 other team members.
• Designing mockups with different technologies and recommending clients the appropriate tools required for the application.
• Design, maintain and optimise Web Forms (ASP.NET MVC).

Fasyl India

Consultant

June 2008 - March 2010

Team Size - 5

Worked as a junior to develop various small ASP.NET web applications for clients with MS SQL Server and Oracle database.

List of applications developed:

1. Online Scholarship Application: DELL funded scholarship request application.
2. Suburban Green: Keeps track of the energy consumption of buildings.
3. Star Package: built for GE to maintain their business information.
4. TaxCal: Web application built to maintain employee's tax information.