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Ashish Kapoor

Software Consultant | Ex. Rill Data, Quid Inc

Hi! 👋 I am Ashish. I am a Software Consultant.

Solving meaningful data-informed problems in Web, Mobile domains as a Freelance Consultant for Frontend, prev. Rill Data, Inc (San Francisco). I have managed teams and been an individual contributor as well as a team player in the UI, Data Visualisation, and Big Data with over 9 years of experience. I have worked in the machine learning and big data domain at Quid Inc (San Francisco), and also played a pivotal role in the global parking platform at kerb.works (Brisbane).

In my free time, I am an open-source contributor and a YouTuber, where I share my knowledge and passion for technology.

Work Experience

Freelance Consultant for Frontend; Remote, India — 06/2022 — present

  • Created an Industrial IIoT Platform with micro-frontend apps. Using React and Svelte in typescript while following Ant Design system. Created an client authentication, and React Component’s Design libraries.
  • Explored and evalutated grafana and budibase open source platforms. Created an authentication layer node library.
  • Also, helped in hiring for senior engineering roles.

    • Lead Applications Engineer, Rill Data Inc; Remote, India — 02/2020 — 03/2022

  • Founding company member for cloud-based data optimization product.
  • Effective created front end and helped drive over $3 million in VC funding, enabling the company to grow to over 20 employees by time of departure.
  • Maintained company enterprise product, created web product, while following the design system.

    • Senior Software Engineer, Quid, Inc; Remote, India — 08/2019 — 02/2020

  • Converted Admin panel in legacy CoffeeScript code to React
  • Helped BCG account with getting custom features in the UI around data visualization and related tools.
  • Fixed complicated issues with backend in ruby communicating through GraphQL.

    • Software Engineer, Kerb.works; Remote, India — 10/2017 — 08/2019

  • Founding company member solving challenging problems in the parking economy at a global level.
  • Helped drive the company from seed to venture capital rounds of $2 million by effectively building great tools in the web, and mobile.
  • Created web, mobile apps and test automation in a team of 3.

    • iOS Engineer (Swift), Navitas; New Delhi, India — 06/2016 — 10/2017

  • I worked on a legacy iOS app build on Objective-C.
  • Then eventually bridged with Swift language.
  • I learned react-native to cover the larger Android user-base as well for the Mobile Apps.

    • Lead iOS Engineer (Swift), ServX (Acquired by Gaadi.com); Delhi, India — 08/2015 — 05/2016

  • I created the company’s iOS App from scratch in Swift.
  • Launched the App within 4 months followed with maintenance and updates.
  • I got great feedback from the entire team.

    • Image Quality Engineer, GoPro (On Aricent payroll); Gurugram, India — 03/2014 — 09/2015

  • Automated android mobile application by creating scripts using ruby and Appium mobile automation framework.
  • Reported bugs on Jira project management tool and taking care of the bug’s life cycle on the same.
  • Generated daily/weekly report summary (dashboard) for the team to be forwarded to the GoPro Office.

    • Volunteer

    Apache Druid contributor (Web console)

    Ex. Swift Delhi Community Manager, swiftindia.in (iOS Developers meet-ups)

    Skills

    Languages:

    TypeScript (ES5, ES6), SQL, C

    Libraries:

    React, NodeJS, SWR / React Query

    Frameworks:

    NextJS, Express

    Mobile:

    React Native, Objective C, Swift

    Tools:

    Git, Auth0, Vault

    Containerization:

    Docker, Kubernetes

    Design:

    Figma, HTML, CSS

    Cloud:

    Google Cloud Provider, Oracle Cloud

    Education

    Indira Gandhi National Open University

    66.04% New Delhi, India — Master of Computer Applications, 2017

    Indira Gandhi National Open University

    New Delhi, India — Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, 2015

    Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

    74.5% New Delhi, India — Bachelor of Computer Applications, 2013

    Achievements

    HarvardX - PH125.2x: Data Science: Visualisation (07/2020 — 10/2020)

    https://courses.edx.org/certificates/202a13e6670744ec9e9455f171ecdf58

    Coursera - Machine Learning, Stanford University (01/2019 — 06/2019)

    https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/N2SKUXY2U8VN

    Udemy - React with Test Driven Development

    https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-cc168a05-d4d0-4b2a-8ce4-e383744f5be8/

    Understanding Typescript - 2022 Edition

    https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-0edc2332-e99a-472e-961c-2ce1f3a1a337/

    References

    Nishant Bangarwa - Co-founder at Rill Data; +91 972 920 0044

    Shane Miller - Design Manager at Label Box; +1 360 510 0240

    Matthew Salmon - Former CTO at Kerb; +61 430 448 866

    Akansh Sinha - Building Truebil at Spinny; +91 999 966 6563