My tech work and resume

Started off as a Senior frontend engineer, focusing on performance issues of the website and cost cutting. I started off with that. But in 2 months, I was pushing for more, providing inputs on full-stack systems and not just frontend. By experience I am a full-stack engineer, although it was not my full time here, we ended up discussing to lead the frontend team. Since then my major role has been to cut down costs, review, feedback, discuss solutions and help other devs. I have been using all the past experiences and fixing loose ends, making new additions wherever necessary and automating many things.

From the start, I have lead major improvements and new additions into the base of the tech here at IndiaHikes.

Quick setup overview

1. Main backend
2. Main frontend - the users and indiahikes.com view
3. Back office front

I joined Hashnode as one of the early engineers in October 2018, at the time the company had just raised its first seed round and the platform unlike now, was a Q&A platform.

We slowly pivoted towards a blogging platform and in around 2020, the whole platform was relaunched as a blogging platform with whole new branding and features.

Some of the important features that I have been a part of

Google Developer Groups Hubli (GDG Hubli) is an open and free community for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. It is a community where people can learn about new technologies, meet other developers, and collaborate on projects. We have reached to more thatn 2500 developers from in and around Hubli since it's inception. We ran a different community known as Devcult, we did the same things there, later we reached out to Google team to start a GDG chapter in Hubli. Since then we shut down Devcult and continued with GDG Hubli.

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Fastpack started as a need for another product that me and my friends were building, called Citykatha. But since fastpack took off, we focused more on it and continued. We dealt with more than 2500 deliveries within about 10 months including McDonald's, Karnataka Cloth Palace - Hubli,Parviathan Gurukul School and many other companies, schools and individuals. Me and 4 other friends ran this gig, being developers, delivery and customer support folks. We had a great time running this gig, learnt a lot of things, but due to some personal reasons we had to shut it down.

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Started off as a event ticketing platform for local events, turned into an e-commerce platform for local businesses. It was Dukaan back then what it is now. Started off with a great product, then the delivery business (Fastpack) took off and we had to let this go.

A bi-weekly newsletter that me and my friend (Supriya - https://omeal.me) started in October 2017. We shipped UI components and explained them in the email. Shut it down do to less focus.

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A an affiliate cashback platform. We used to reimburse the amount of affiliate commission that we used to get from the affiliate networks to the users. Got to know later that many platforms are actually against this, so had to shut down.

Back then the Google maps was not that great at pointing to homes and floors. So, we built a tool that can point to the exact location of the house or floor. We used to get the location from the user and then we used to pin it on the map and send the link to the user.

This is how I started my whole career in tech. Used to build and sell electronics and software projects to other engineering colleges and companies. Apart from this I freelanced on freelancer.com, several local companies and individuals.