Sameer Chowdhury

Senior Vice President - Engineering

iCapital Network, Inc.

03.2014 - Current

Technical leadership
Work with Product, UX, and Engineering Leads to bring business objectives from the C-suite to reality
Facilitate product development by baking in best practices and automation into the entire lifecycle from inception to delivery
I make sure there are code review and code quality checks in place
CI/CD, pen-tests, and automated scalable deployments
Foster a sustainable, collaborative, and learning team culture to retain the best talent
I help create career paths and promotion opportunities to retain engineers for the long term
I have real world, in the trenches experience with Ruby/Rails, Python, Javascript (React, Angular etc), AWS cloud and containerization, to name a few
Stack includes Rails, Angular, React/Redux, Node, Elasticsearch, Postgresql, Redis, on AWS
Lead critical projects providing all technical leadership
Collaborate on Application architecture, coding best practices, and CI/CD
Hiring and Onboard Processes
Collaborate with product managers, team leads and other engineers to build best in class software solutions
Coordinate the release and deployment of high-impact projects
Mentor managers and engineers, 1-1s, performance reviews, promotions
Guide implementation from frontend Javascript and CSS to a Rails API and Postgresql in the backend
Successful completion of high impact projects to include Elasticsearch backed Document Repository, Application wide caching service, SSO integration with SAML and JWT, among others
Practice agile development methodologies
Technical and product leadership to creation of first iPad and iPhone native apps
Delivered on complete redesign of the website using web services and an API initially developed for mobile
A streamlined donor portal replacing faxing and manual data entry using mongodb in the backend
Powerful Search (Elasticsearch) and Recommendations systems
Streamlining and automation of shipping and internal processes
A fault tolerant and cloud scalable architecture - a huge improvement from non-virtualized system I inherited
An end to end re-architecture and optimization of the site from the load-balancer and nginx to the database to handle scale through nginx and rails caching
Lead all aspects of software development, deployment and technical infrastructure management at Charitybuzz
Build a team of developers transitioning from a team of remote consultants
Formulate a process for software development following an agile methodology
Create a deployment process as well as related server environments for testing, staging and production
Work on Rails 2.3 and 3 apps
In depth experience creating scalable, high availability infrastructure through managed and cloud services