ReStok is a digital salesman in a retailer's pocket. We are changing how distribution is happening in FMCG Retail. Working with top FMCG companies, and complementing the existing value chain and providing efficiencies where we can. Handling everything from Product Development, Hiring, Architecture, Coding and anything else to keep the company growing

CEO, Co-Founder

-Provide Expert tech & Architecture advice, strategy planning, implementation & deployment to multiple companies (Startups and otherwise) on technologies like NodeJS, AngularJS, Java, MongoDB, MySQL, RabbitMQ and more 
- Performed over 40, acclaimed, hands-on training and workshops on AngularJS & NodeJS for different companies, from India to Netherlands (including the opening workshop on AngularJS at JsFoo 2014 in India) 
- Interviewed, hired and grown team for development consulting practice on full stack implementations 
- Business Development 
- Successfully identified, sourced and engaged with over 25 different clients (MNCs and startups) in the period of 2 years of Fundoo. 
- Ideated, Developed & Launched multiple products like Counterfeiting Prevention Solution, Euphoriq for Weddings, Kiranawaala app, and more 
- Responsible for business growth, engagements and revenue at Fundoo Solutions 

Founder, CEO

Senior Software Engineer owning architecture for some major parts of the Ship with Amazon team, working on interesting new technologies, products and solutions! 
- Leading efforts for Customer Onboarding & Management of Ship With Amazon 
- Working on Automated Document Classification using CNN & Caffe 
- Looking into realtime data analytics pipeline, creating rule engines and anomaly detection 
- UI Architect for Shipper Central 
- Security Certifier for applications and services at Amazon 
- Bar Raiser for Change management, design and more

Senior Architect

Hopscotch.in is a leading discovery-based e-Commerce destination for Indian moms, offering a wide range of curated children’s merchandise at affordable prices. As the head of engineering, I was responsible for 
- Setting up a rockstar team of over 40 people across Backend, Frontend, Mobile, QA, Datawarehousing, DevOps and more from an initial team of 3 in Mumbai. 
- Setting up processes, splitting up multiple small, focussed pods of Dev + QA + Product to lead towards a more efficient, agile sprint model 
- Closely interact with the heads of various departments and the product & business teams to re-orient engineering towards the top priority areas and ensure proper communication across the teams 
- Re-engineering the architecture towards a more scalable, maintainable platform via Micro-services, Performance improvements, Caching, and infrastructure. 
- Leading optimizations and quick growth while ensuring major performance improvements 
- Leading setting up of a common Data Warehouse in Amazon RedShift to allow to move towards a more micro-service oriented architecture from the current monolithic RDS setup 
- Setting up an agile process with weekly sprints for the young but kickass team
- Leading & Launching a full Website Revamp project in Angular working off a common REST API 
- Leading the implementation of Splunk to get realtime intelligence on the systems and infrastructure at Hopscotch 
- Working with Akamai CDN for Front-end optimizations and speed improvements 
- Working on a stack that includes Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, Memcache, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Ruby, AngularJS, jQuery and more 
- Dealing with production issues and fires initially where site used to be down daily because of high loads, and turning it around to a smoother, fast experience even at 3-5x the load

Head of Engineering

Mountain View, CA 
- Tech Lead for Agile team of 8 developing UI for Google Feedback. 
- Worked closely as part of the AngularJS team to improve their library and add necessary features. 
- Developed multiple tools / gadgets to reflect developer testing practices 
- Part of agile, mobile group to solve problems / develop apps / spread testing education. 
- Developed internal tool for resource locking used to control access to common resources. Developed in a TDD fashion. 
- Led team of 5 in developing a framework for testing automation for a web based application 

Senior Software Engineer

Patents System and method to in-line script ReStok Ordering Solutions Developed ASP.NET web components and pages for Opera Web Project using C# Deployed environments in Oracle for development of Web Service Developed and worked with packages and databases in Oracle Worked and coordinated with a global team, based in New York, London and Singapore

SEO IT Summer Analyst

Part of the team that first used AngularJS at google, initial contributor to the core team, author of two books for O'Reilly on AngularJS, consulting architect for multiple corporations on AngularJS and conducted over 25 workshops internationally

Developed multiple NodeJS web applications using the MEAN stack with varying requirements

Multiple massive scalable, testable and maintainable servers using a variety of languages like Java, Python, NodeJS and more. Understand architecture and design  at a very deep level, and provide consulting and expertise to multiple corporations on server design and architecture

Got in JS purely because of AngularJS, and haven't looked back since. Have dealt with all the craziness of JS in that duration, from closures, callbacks and crazy JS gotchas. While I would never prescribe pure JS as a solution, I know enough to cause trouble :)

First programming language ever learnt, and designed massively scalable applications using it at my years in Google. Know the ins and outs (including Reflection!!!), and very experienced at creating scalable, testable and maintainable projects using Java

The defacto standard for the web is where i thrive, making web and mobile ready HTML apps (Using AngularJS, and now playing around with ShadowDOM and Polymer!). Very solid experience gained over multiple projects

Developed mutiple web applications backed by Python, and written enough scrapers and tools using Python as a quick fix. Very knowledgeable in writing manageable and testable python code.

Across multiple companies, led major tech deployments on a variety of cloud platforms, AWS included. Very good familiarity with most core AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambdas and more.

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Shyam S.

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