Kaustav Haldar

Software Engineer Intern - Monitoring and metrics

Cloud hosting

Lua + Luvit, ELK, NodeJS, Python, Bash, Hadoop, Ruby, Go, Java, MongoDb, Sql

• Worked extensively on improvements and bug fixes to aFOSS monitoring agentincluding ~40 new server monitoring endpoints.
• Assisted in building a Kibana dashboard backed by Elasticsearch and a python ETL script for fleet monitoring using aforementioned data
• Data mining on archival data on Hadoop with Hive and reached out to customers
• Worked extensively on a large python project for automating support
• Worked extensively on a large nodejs + java distributed monitoring system fixing bugs, docs, build processes & tools, development VMs; adding linting, tests, API endpoints, microservices, kafka integration.
• Worked with chef for deploying and orchestrating pieces of aforementioned system
• Assisted in organizing an internal ~200 person hackathon, Rax.io 2016.
• Published an article about using and benchmarking kafka
• Pushed accepted patches/features upstream to:
  • pypa/pip
  • facebook/hhvm
  • docker/machine
  • luvit/luvit
  • lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf
  • racker/dreadnot
  • rackerlabs/mimic
  • rackerlabs/blueflood

Freelance full-stack developer

A marketplace for farmers and restaurants

Ruby on Rails, coffee-script

• Lead a distributed team of 4 developers to rapidly build a MVP for the startup and overhaul existing code and data

Freelance full-stack developer

A flight capable hardware platform for social media and event attendee engagement

PHP & MySQL | jQuery, coffee-script, jade, stylus, bootstrap, video streaming libraries

• Built a mobile view and API for social media and viewing captured pictures, the main software offering of the startup
• Built a responsive cross platform event engagement display for screens ranging from projectors to smartphones
• Contributed to the TwitterFontana open-source project augmenting it for Brizi use

Co-founder, full-stack developer

An online marketplace for performers

MongoDB, Express, AngularJS

• Designed and developed core components of the web application, allowing non-technical founders to handle administrative and payment functions easily.
• Wrote numerous CRUD routes, serverside functions, database schemas, API integrations, front-end controllers, views and styles.

Freelance web and mobile developer

A social entrepreneurship and project based education startup

Cordova, SQLite, jQuery UI & mobile, SocketIO, Express, postgreSQL

• Design and implementation of Android application featuring barcode scanning, history, realtime and REST API integration for TV controls and a dashboard
• Remote collaboration with a software development company for bugfixing, UI improvements and integration of client APIs with mobile application
• Wrote detailed application documentation which can be foundhere

Web developer

UW Co-op work term at a medium sized SaaS and advertisement company for SMBs

PHP, MySQL

• Fixed major platform bugs that could lead to serious data loss via SQL injection
• Restyled and created UI widgets for the corporate website leading to higher sales conversions and easier extensibility due to code cleanup
• Various small features and bugfixes on application front-end such as increased responsivity to screen sizes, wysiwyg editing and saving

Volunteer web developer

UWAFT is an award winning student design team responsible for developing technologically advanced eco-friendly vehicles

• Bugfixes on wordpress site styling
• Collaborated on and implemented features and re-organization of content

Small business owner

• Assembled desktop computers
• Troubleshot hardware and driver issues
• Installed and configured OSs on client computers, handled partioning, drive re-formatting, virus & malware removal, software installations, data backup and recovery.
• Sold games, movies and software

Co-founder | Writer | Editor

Blog focused on nootropics and bio-enhancement

• Worked with a ~5 person founding team to launch a blog, which as of September 20th has 7k unique visitors, 500 recurring visitors, 2 sponsored ads and 1 affiliate partnership
• Wrote articles on sleep and some basicfundamentals of neuroscience

Logistics co-director

Canadas largest student organized hackathon. 1000 student hackers at the University of Waterloo. part of mlh.io

• Managed logistical issues related to food, internet, registration, event planning
• Worked with a ~30 person team over the course of 8 months to pull off a successful major league hackathon

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