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Abhik Khanra

Looking to work closely with business leaders, to own and deliver technology that amplifies business value, either as a technical co-founder or a senior leader.

  • I enjoy hands-on full-stack software development with diverse experience across organizations ranging in industry and size
  • with a long tenure at leading and developing geographically distributed teams
  • good at
    • navigating complex business situations
    • identifying the most important drivers of value
    • driving rapid iteration towards them
    • setting up the organization, processes and culture to do that effectively
  • and have also provided technical guidance to CEOs and consulted on sales and product

Email / LinkedIn / GitHub

Where

Location

Kolkata

Timezone

Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30)

Recent work

Full-time

Director of Engineering @ [Stealth Startup] (March 2022 - August 2022)
Building data processing systems to support the core application platform.

  • Involves cleaning, processing, enhancing data from a wide variety of sources
  • Building workflow tooling and application to streamline the above
  • Technologies used: Clojure, AWS DyanmoDB, AWS RDS, Elasticsearch

Independent Consultant

Software Developer @ Omnyway (June 2020 - February 2022)
Real-time streaming commerce platform for Retailers to hold live events

  • Implemented the Retailer Dashboard and Shopper web applications
  • Helped accelerate the transition from Managed AWS to Serverless deployments, which saved costs and reduced management overhead
  • Integrated Paypal's Connected Path as a payment option for Retailers
  • Implemented a Shopify App to enable Shopify merchants to leverage Omnyway's streaming commerce solutionplatform
  • Adapting the entire platform to use an Indian payment gateway needed to make end-to-end payments work in India
  • Technologies used: Clojure, Clojurescript, AWS Appsync, AWS Amplify, Sass.

Consulting CTO @ Hipla (June 2020 - September 2020)
Facility management platform with a focus on Visitor acess and scheduling via Indoor positioning. Computer Vision-driven Contact Tracing platform for facilities

  • Provided all-around technical counsel to the CEO for potential acquisitions, working with external development teams, platform vision, service-to-product transition
  • Coached Development team for alignment with business and product goals, better technical work habits toward predictable development cadence
  • Managed outcomes from external Development team partners, reviewing their design to pare down on non-essential complexity
  • Set up a lightweight hiring pipeline, worked with HR and external recruiters to hire Developers and Development Lead
  • Guided Development leads in making long-term technical choices

Previous experience

Others

  • I co-organize a Clojure Meetup in Kolkata, India. It's on temporary hiatus due to Covid-19.
  • I am often tempted to move to Product Management since building the right thing is always going to be much harder than building the thing right. I completed an online Digital Product Management track from Coursera in 2020, but i can't seem to give up code.
  • I can sometimes see in the dark when i get lost in a hike.

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