Pavitra Golchha
Career Objective
A computerphile who is fascinated by computers and the internet, and is enthusiastic about new technologies. I have keen focus and interest in making performant and resource-efficient software, topped with fine principles of software engineering.
Experience
Kodular
A no-code Android app builder
Co-Founder, Jun 2017 - Present (7 years)
- A no-code Android app builder that allows you to build Android apps without code using Blockly.
- Responsible for developing and maintaining a collection of over 150 Android components that uses a variety of Android APIs and libraries, and the Andorid build server.
- Gained a consistent user base of 100,000 monthly active users (MAU) over the course of several years. Have over a million app developers registered on our platform. Over 4 million apps were built in 2020 alone.
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Software Engineer, Jul 2023 - Present (a year)
Working on an early-stage Blockchain startup project
- Responsible for the developement of a dApp web frontend using React.
- Have an understanding of the Blockchain and the Ethereum network.
Software Engineer, Jul 2023 - Present (a year)
Working on an early-stage startup project related to Salesforce
- Responsible for the end-to-end development of a Chrome browser extension using Vue.
- Designed the infrastructure using a serverless and event-driven architecture on AWS.
- Helped getting the Google CASA (Cloud Application Security Assessment) certification for the project.
Associate Software Engineer, Jul 2022 - Jul 2023 (a year)
Worked on a health-tech device used by 100k users globally.
- Utilized AWS Glue with PySpark for data engineering tasks to produce performance reports and perform comparisons with the ground truth data of over 100GB.
- Built and maintained a data dashboard that aid cross-functional teams to monitor and troubleshoot user data, which reduced the amount of work and time spent by 80%.
- Performed regular sleep and usage data analysis on random users' sample from a pool of over 10k users, as well as, statistical analysis on all of the users on a quaterly cadence.
Google Summer Of Code × MIT App Inventor
App Inventor is a project that democratizes mobile app development
Participant, May - Aug 2020 (3 months)
Researched and Developed a prototype that enables the functionality of visible component extensions, filling a crucial gap within the platform.
Projects
- folo - a social media metrics tracker app
- picsup - an image sharing platform
- VR Compatibility Checker - ~100K downloads
- PlayBadges - a badge service for displaying Play Store app's downloads and rating
- FloLang - an interpreted programming language
- Sendy - anonymous file transfer service
- App Inventor Modern (unfinished) - a modernized version of MIT App Inventor using the latest stack.
- Project Jigsaw (unfinished) - a new take on a blockly-based app builder. modeled using a declarative UI paradigm influenced by React.
Technical Skills
Education
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
Jul 2019 - Jul 2023 (4 years)
- Operating Systems
- Computer Networks
- Database Management Systems
- Web Security
- Digital Image Processing
- Distributed Computing and System Design
- High Performance Computing
Certifications
- AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2021 Certified Associate
- Machine Learning by Andrew Ng
- Fundamentals of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Oracle Database Foundations
- APIs and Microservices - freeCodeCamp
- 30 Days of Google Cloud
- Architecting with Google Compute Engine (Specialization)
Other experiences
Google Developers Student Clubs
Tech Lead, Mar 2020 - Jan 2022 (2 years)
Hosted a few workshops on Android and Kotlin Study Jams.
Google Cloud Sprint Bootcamp
Apprenticeship, Jun - Jul 2022 (a month)
Learnt Google Cloud Platform, networking and troubleshooting.