Dipankar Sarkar

Dipankar Sarkar

internet specialist | clean technology enabler | open source contributor | private equity | intellectual property

Delhi Area, India

Current

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Past
  • Software Engineer at MPower Mobile (formerly Sapphire)
  • Software engineer at Uzanto Consulting Ltd, Delhi
  • Research consultant at BCore Software India Pvt. Ltd,Delhi

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Education
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • The Mother's International School
  • The Future Foundation School,Kolkata
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Dipankar Sarkar’s Summary

· Dipankar 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.

· 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 2005-06 and 2006-07 (India's first 5 participants in GSoC), 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 *geek in residence* at Opdrage Venture Partners, a New Delhi based Mentor Capitalist firm comprised of progressive minded investors, business service providers, marketing gurus, and seasoned business executives. He is also on the Board of advisors for GVC, a premier green entrepreneurship event.

· He is also a volunteer of proto.in (http://proto.in) India's premier start-up showcase event. Contact me at dipankar@proto.in to know more.

· He is also a volunteer for OSVDB (The Open Source Vulnerability Database ), and helps them maintain their main web application. http://osvdb.org

· He is a registered iPhone developer as well and also, dabbles around with hardware prototyping once in a while (built a personal video recording solution for fun).

· He has a patent pending 894/DEL/2009, which is related to the mobile VAS industry and is in the process of filing couple of more patents.

· He works with people from all over the world ( Israel, US, UK, Germany, Nigeria, Venezuela, Mexico ) and would want to work with anyone who is interested in expanding their businesses in India.

Contact me at,
email : me@dipankar.name
skype : dipankar.sarkar
India phone - +91 965 033 8421
US phone - +1 415 670 9162

Dipankar Sarkar’s Specialties:

Startups, Social Media, Web,Internet, Venture Capital, Private Equity, clean technology, Open source, green , social, Management consulting.

Technicals :
Languages: PHP, ruby, python, C++/C, Java, C#, javascript, CSS, HTML
Platforms: django, webpy, rails, symphony, cakephp, codeigniter, Mozilla , .NET, iphone, J2ME
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL
Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD , embedded linux
Search : sphinx, xapian, lucene
Amazon Web service experience(EC2 , S3)

Dipankar Sarkar’s Experience

  • Chief technical guy

    Electrosocial

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    May 2009 — Present (3 months)

    Electrosocial is a team of internet professionals with an expertise in social media. Our work is divided into two verticals namely building interactive applications for various social platforms like linkedin, facebook, myspace, orkut etc and designing social media solutions for brands and individuals.

    We are into pushing social media into old style business to provide them with the impetus to reach the next level. The idea is to use the various existing social tools and increase the brand value manifold with the right web strategy.

    visit us at http://electrosocial.com for more information.

    Feel free to mail me at dipankar@electrosocial.com to get a free feedback on your social media strategy.

  • Software engineer

    Clickable

    (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    February 2009 — Present (6 months)

    Clickable makes it easy for advertisers and agencies to manage pay-per-click (PPC) performance across all major advertising networks. It is a Techcruch top 50 company and has done some amazing work in this niche.

    My current area of work is in security and internal product engineering. The goal is to make the current application robust and scalable for the future.

    The technologies involved are .NET platform (C#, ASP.NET), MS SQL.

    An official clickable blog post about me- http://www.clickable.com/blogs/clickableblog/archive/2009/04/21/linux-to-windows-introduction-to-dipinkar-sarkar.aspx

    Website : http://www.clickable.com
    Email : dsarkar@clickable.com

  • Co-founder

    Green Venture Camp

    (Privately Held; Renewables & Environment industry)

    January 2009 — Present (7 months)

    Green Venture Camp is a platform to promote emerging cleantech companies in India. Working towards connecting the green entrepreneur to the investor and making the world a better place for the future.

    This camp is going to take place in August 2009 and promises to be a breakthrough event for cleantech companies in India. We are looking for sponsorship and quality start ups. Come together to make the world a greener and cleaner place.

    Read more at http://greenventurecamp.com
    Feel free to email us at people@greenventurecamp.com about more information regarding the event and sponsorship details.

  • Chief technical officer

    Kaasu Info Ventures Pvt.Ltd

    (Internet industry)

    August 2008 — Present (1 year)

    We are a start-up focused on software development. Along the way we also like to experiment and break new ground. At all times we are focused on developing neat, secure and scalable products over the web.

    We are the force behind http://mosambe.com. My role is to manage the technical needs of our product development cycle and at time, focus on the business needs of the applications we develop.

    My profile is at http://dipankar.mosambe.com and email is dipankar@kaasuventures.com

  • Associate

    Opdrage Venture Partners

    (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

    Opdrage Venture Partners, as the name suggests, exists to help spot and nurture entrepreneurs with the potential to disrupt markets and business models, usually through technology and innovative sales strategy.

    Opdrage works with early stage ventures and companies in transition, including those looking at funding options. It provides strategic inputs to key management teams in scale-up and rapid growth stage. We at Opdrage Venture Partners draws its inspiration from the true venture capital (VC) model, where venture capitalists spend significant time with their portfolio companies, working closely with the entrepreneurs to create significant value.

    For the most promising businesses, we actively seek funding with them, using our global network of investors and partners.

    My role is to deal with the portfolio companies and clients directly, and also technically evaluate them whenever necessary. Formerly, I was the "Geek in residence" of the firm.

    Website : http://opdrage.com
    Email : dipankar@opdrage.com

  • Co-founder / CTO

    Kwippy

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 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. I am the CTO and my area of focus implementation wise is systems, search, IM technologies.

    May 2009 - Dataquest presents Top 25 Indian Web 2.0 Start-ups - (Kwippy)
    http://www.cybermedia.co.in/press/pressrelease124.html

    April 2009 - Kwippy features in Economic Times -
    http://blog.kwippy.com/2009/04/09/161/

    Website : http://www.kwippy.com
    Mail : dipankar@kwippy.com

  • Software Engineer

    MPower Mobile (formerly Sapphire)

    (Wireless industry)

    February 2008 — February 2009 (1 year 1 month)

    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 worked with mobile technologies, systems and development (python, kannel).

    Website : http://www.mpowermobile.com

  • Software engineer

    Uzanto Consulting Ltd, Delhi

    (Internet industry)

    June 2007 — February 2008 (9 months)

    SlideShare (www.slideshare.net) is the world's first & largest website for the social sharing of presentations (ppt, pps, odp, pdf formats) on the web. It is popularly referred to as the "YouTube of PowerPoint" and went live in Oct'06. My responsibilities in the company used to range from developing new features like URL upload, server management to architectural decisions.

    Technologies : Ruby, RoR, FreeBSD, MySQL, Python, Open Office, PHP, apache, nginx, eclipse

    Website : http://slideshare.net

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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’s Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    B.Tech , Computer science , 2003 — 2007

    B.Tech Project - Unusual Activity Recognition system
    The goal of the project was to detect any unusual human activity using video. This work on activity recognition using video and unusual activity problem was successfully demonstrated in an real-time environment.

    This project was awarded the best project at IIT Delhi's Open House 2009.

    Activities and Societies:
    ACES, Kumaon hostel

  • The Mother's International School

    High school , English,Physics,Chemistry,Maths,Computers , 2001 — 2003

    This is one of Delhi's top school and has consistently done well at the IIT and entrance exams.

    Activities and Societies:
    MINET

  • 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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