Personal details

Puneet G. - Remote back-end developer

Puneet G.

Timezone: New Delhi (UTC+5.5)

Summary

I'm an engineer who expends the creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal. I have worked with startups based out of San Francisco/Bay Area, London, Singapore, Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai.

My core skills include:

  1. Product Management
  2. Product Development
  3. Product analytics and A/B testing
  4. Growth Hacking
  5. Software Architecture
  6. Product development
  7. Natural language processing/Search/Information Retrieval
  8. Hiring and Interviewing developers
  9. Building teams and processes

Some products where I have used these skills to generate successful outcomes include:

a. Content platforms that rely on user-generated content, review systems, CMS, and social networking.

b. edTech platform with live and self-paced online courses

c. Voice-enabled AI assistant for enterprise clients

d. SaaS software for vendor onboarding

e. CRM solutions for order and customer management in manufacturing.

f. CRM solution for the food industry (virtual order taking desk)

g. A content platform for online Radio.

h. Social networking platform for finance enthusiasts.

Tools/Technologies I am most familiar with:

a. Python
b. Django/Flask
c. Elastic Search
d. Kafka
e. AWS Lambda
f. AWS/GCP cloud
g. Redis
h. Relational Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
i. NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)

During my professional career, I have had the pleasure of working with people from top-notch companies (such as Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, Amazon) and premium institutes such as IIT, MIT, Stanford, Wharton, NYU-Stern, etc. These people have contributed immensely to my professional growth and I continue to seek amazing people to work with.

In my free time, I like to take play basketball, attend music concerts, and travel the world.

Work Experience

Software Engineer
Certa | Jun 2019 - Present
Python
Django
PostgreSQL
Celery
Docker
Serverless
Lead the design and development of key platform features - PDF pipeline: enables the clients to configure customer HTML templates using Django's template engine for context management and render them into a PDF. The pipeline can handle the generation of graphical PDF with up to 1000 pages and more. - Bulk actions: enables the user to perform bulk actions on records across the platform. Optimized for performance and reliability. - Data import: enables the import of data using a simple CSV in bulk. The pipeline can handle more than a million records in a single execution. - Microservice to integrate with multiple e-agreement platforms like DocuSign, HelloSign, AdobeSign
Software Engineer
LevelAI | May 2018 - May 2019
Python
Django
Celery
Google Cloud Platform
- Founding engineer - Designed the technology systems for the voice AI product - Implemented the application backend as a distributed monolith with NLP and ASR running in isolated environments

Personal Projects

Sole India
2017
Android
Django
Celery
React
Sole India is an application developed to help bring digital literacy. It is easy to use an android app where anyone looking for help with a task involving internet or technology could simply record a voice message in their regional language with one tap and their query will be posted public forum where one of the experts will get in touch to help resolve the query. The idea behind this application was that it is always the initial icebreaker that you need to start exploring the internet and become comfortable. This application was developed as a hackathon project under RHoK and was awarded the first price.
BitKuber
2018
Android
Django
Machine Learning
BitKuber is a P2P lending application that generates the credit score of the borrower from call logs, location history, and messages using an advanced data analytics model.