Software engineer, Web Consultant, Blogger, Entrepreneur
Delhi Area, India
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- Geek in residence at Opdrage Venture Partners
- Software Engineer at MPower Mobile (formerly Sapphire)
- Technical head at Kwippy
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- Software engineer at Uzanto Consulting Ltd, Delhi
- Research consultant at BCore Software India Pvt. Ltd,Delhi
- Summer of code 2006 at OSDL
- Internship at Oracle India Pvt. Ltd,Bangalore
- Internship at Tekriti Software Pvt. Ltd,Gurgaon
- Summer of code 2005 at Mozilla Corporation
- Education
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- Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- The Mother's International School
- The Future Foundation School,Kolkata
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Dipankar Sarkar (dipankarsarkar@gmail.com)’s Summary
· Application developer, web analyst and partly, system administrator who likes working on new technologies/implementation challenges. Particularly interested in startups, open source and scalable technologies.
· He has been the part of Google's summer of code for 2005-6 and 2006-7, contributing code to open source projects. He has undertaken workshops ranging on topics from windows embedded programming to writing facebook applications in python.
· He is the main technical guy behind Kwippy(http://kwippy.com) which is one cool micro-blogging platform. In his spare time he writes smaller applications which interface with many of the popular social networks like Facebook, twitter, Myspace.
· He is also the *geek in residence* of Opdrage Venture Partners, a New Delhi based boutique management consulting firm focusing on early stage ventures, SMBs and Venture Capital.
· He breathes, Lives and codes in New Delhi.
Contact me at,
email : dipankarsarkar@gmail.com
phone : +91 981 145 2098
Dipankar Sarkar (dipankarsarkar@gmail.com)’s Specialties:
Languages: PHP, ruby, python, C++/C, Java, .Net platform, javascript, CSS, HTML
Platforms: django, webpy, rails, symphony, cakephp, codeigniter, Mozilla
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD
Worked on search(sphinx) as well.
Amazon Web service experience(EC2 , S3)
Dipankar Sarkar (dipankarsarkar@gmail.com)’s Experience
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Geek in residence
Opdrage Venture Partners
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
March 2008 — Present (8 months)
Opdrage is a General Management and VC advisory firm focused on Indian Startups / SMEs.
Opdrage works with businesses seeking to grow in terms of business numbers, product/service base or accessing newer markets/geographies on issues of organizational transformation and Venture Capital strategy.
Feasibility Studies, Consulting, Strategy, M&A, Client Relationship Management, Market Innovation, Market Development, VC/PE
Dipankar works with the technical aspects of startups, helping them realize their true value.
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Software Engineer
MPower Mobile (formerly Sapphire)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)
February 2008 — Present (9 months)
Pay anyone, anywhere using simple SMS. PHIRE is the world's first mobile debit network enabling users to conduct transactions and perform banking functions from their handsets using text messaging.
I work with mobile technologies, systems and development.
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Technical head
Kwippy
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
Kwippy is a nanoblogging platform and a social network integrated with your IMs. It adapts according to you and integrates into your workflow, so you don’t have to actively blog. In short kwippy does the blogging, while you just express.
My area of focus is systems, search, IM technologies.
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Software engineer
Uzanto Consulting Ltd, Delhi
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2007 — February 2008 (9 months)
Slideshare.net is one of the big players in the area of presentation sharing, my responsibilities in the company range from developing new features like URL upload, server management to architectural decisions.
Worked with : Ruby, RoR, FreeBSD, MySQL, Python, Open Office, PHP, apache, nginx, eclipse
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Research consultant
BCore Software India Pvt. Ltd,Delhi
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)
Worked as a researcher/software developer at BCore software India Pvt. Ltd. The work was based around vision algorithms and implementation optimization.
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Summer of code 2006
OSDL
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)
Worked on NFSv4 testing, developed a set of scripts which was used in conjunction with NetEm (linux kernel supported network emulation) for testing. This was research oriented, and helped me understand network file-systems better. The project was completed to my mentor's satisfaction.
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Internship
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd,Bangalore
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — July 2006 (3 months)
Web Service PDS - The goal was to develop a plugin for Oracle Reports server using Java. I designed and implemented the plugin, which was demonstrated to the U.S headquarters and got great reviews.
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Internship
Tekriti Software Pvt. Ltd,Gurgaon
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — July 2005 (3 months)
Personal video recording – A PVR prototype (similar to TiVo) was developed from scratch using off-the-shelf hardware and Open source software. We used a VIA EPIA embedded board and MythTV for building a compact set-top box, the EPG was generated by crawling the Indiatimes.com TV listings.
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Summer of code 2005
Mozilla Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — July 2005 (4 months)
Worked on a WYSIWYG XUL editor, took the intial codebase from chameleon. It was not completed, but was an interesting project.
Dipankar Sarkar (dipankarsarkar@gmail.com)’s Education
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Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
B.Tech, Computer science, 2003 — 2007
B.Tech Project. - Unusual Activity Recognition
The goal of the project was to detect any unusual human activity using video. Work on activity recognition using video and unusual activity problem was successfully demonstrated in an real-time environment.- Activities and Societies:
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The Mother's International School
High school, 2001 — 2003
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The Future Foundation School,Kolkata
High School, 1990 — 2001
A Sri Aurobindo ashram school, now one of the best schools in South Calcutta.
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Dipankar Sarkar (dipankarsarkar@gmail.com)’s Interests:
web 2.0, technology, finance, management, facebook, filesystems, cars, cricket
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