Souvik Ghosh

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Director of Engineering at Deloitte | ex-Flipkart

Deloitte
Kolkata, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
English, Hindi, Bengali
AdvisingCo-founder
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Overview

17 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Deloitte, where I lead the developer experience team. Shipped 20 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback. Wrote the Rust service that now handles 49 million requests a day. Yoga every morning.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on developer tools
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on VS Code extensions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Best reached early in the week

Skills
TypeScriptVS Code extensionsLSPCLI designRustcompilers
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: developer tools and compilers

Topics
developer tools, Rust, TypeScript
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Equity
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

17 years of developer tools. One call a month or async reviews.

Kolkata, India · remote OKtypescriptlspcli design
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a go-to-market co-founder: warehouse robotics in the UK

The idea
Warehouse robotics in the UK
Stage
Idea
I bring
5 years in developer tools
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Kolkata or remote

I bring 17 years of developer tools (currently Deloitte). Ideally you've led a design team. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Kolkata, India · remote OKrustvs code extensionscli design
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2023 - Present
    Deloitte · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Led the migration of 59 services to TypeScript.
    • Grew the developer experience team from 3 to 28 engineers.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Dec 2023
    Flipkart · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 30 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Software Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
    Intel · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Moved 85% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
    Reliance Jio · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 39 a week to 3.
    • Wrote the LSP service that now handles 82 million requests a day.
  5. Staff Software Engineer
    Nov 2015 - Jan 2018
    Myntra · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 31 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. IIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
    2004 - 2008

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