As a Sole Proprietor at Sonco Technologies, I provide technology consulting services for clients ranging from early-stage entrepreneurs to enterprises. I offer hands-on solutions in full-stack web development, cloud migrations and optimizations, and DevOps best practices. I also advise on Agile methodologies, MVP prototyping, feasibility testing, and developer productivity. I have worked with 10 clients in the first year, with all 5-star reviews, a 100% job success score, and top-rated status on Upwork.
I am passionate about digital privacy, sustainability, fintech, and the prospects of Web3. I am open to part-time or freelancing opportunities that align with my interests and skills.
Sonco Technologies , Gurgaon, India • June 2022 - Present
- Providing technology consulting services for clients varying
from pre-seed startups to enterprises.
- Hands-on solutions offered in full-stack web development and
MVP prototyping.
- Consultancy services offered as Virtual CTO/ Consulting CTO/
Fractional CTO with emphasis on Agile best practices, developer
productivity and DevOps best practices.
- Worked with 10 clients in the first year with all 5-star
reviews, a 100% job success score and top-rated status on
Upwork.
Finship Technologies , Gurgaon, India • January 2022 - June 2022
- Spoke to potential customers, SEBI Registered Investment
Advisors and journalists to successfully validate a platform to
provide unbiased financial advice to retail investors.
- Built CRM pipelines, Sales funnels and landing pages for the
targeted audience.
- Parked idea after failing to work around regulatory conditions
forcing me to take commissions on products rather than a
pay-for-advice model.
AIG , London, UK • September 2020 - May 2021
- Performed immediate course correction and stabilised a
depleted team struggling to meet deadlines.
- Worked with Strategy and Product Owner to reprioritise
features and made time to reduce tech debt.
- Oversaw team bifurcation into dedicated web and data
engineering teams, while meeting release timelines and Product
OKRs.
- Participated in design and ideation sessions with Design,
Strategy and Product teams for upcoming features and user
stories.
AIG , London, UK • June 2019 - May 2021
- Part of the Investments AI team, with the vision to create "AI
first" products for the Investments and Insurance arms of AIG
Global.
- Worked on a web based platform that pre aggregates geo spatial
data from various sources and offers interactive graphs and maps
based visualisation along with in house ML insights.
- Led an initiative to separate out the data pipelines into its
own ETL service and assumed responsibility of software design,
implementation and deployment (in collaboration with the DevOps
team).
- Led an initiative to implement performance metrics logging and
created a dashboard to measure relevant KPIs.
- Worked on a service wrapper around third party GIS server
software for automating data transformation and loading.
- Took interviews and participated in cross team code reviews,
architecture planning, knowledge sharing and other department
wide initiatives.
Zalando SE , Berlin, Germany • April 2018 - April 2019
- Worked towards a company wide initiative called ‘ML
Enablement’ to standardise ML practices.
- Implemented an end to end model pipeline solution including a
Model Management platform.
- Developed libraries to inherently introduce reproducibility
and traceability in ML Models and Data.
- Worked with AWS, Spark, Presto, Message Queues and other big
data technologies.
- Led a Hackathon project as idea owner to deliver interactive
recommendation services with Google Assistant.
Coinstrats , London, UK • July - September, 2017
- Worked on thesis, titled ‘Optimal Trading Execution
Framework’, under mentorship from Coinstrats.
- Developed a platform with Python, Django backend, MySQL
database and HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery on the front end.
- System allowed users to trade cryptocurrency using TWAP, VWAP
and PoV algorithms.
- Market trends, algorithm performance and other figures were
represented with interactive graphs.
StartXLabs , New Delhi, India • June - August, 2016
- Led a team of four in developing 4 small and medium scale
applications.
- Was a point of contact for the clients and responsible for
project delivery.
- Developed Spiders and Crawlers using Scrapy to collect
information from the web.
- Set up and maintained servers on AWS and Linode, deploying the
applications from scratch.
- Created training modules for new team members as well as for
future hires.
- Used Git (BitBucket), Trello, Slack and Skype in professional
environment.
Customer Service Labs, New Delhi, India • August - September, 2015
- Provided technical guidance to the company on variety of web
development technologies.
- Mediated between Customer Labs and agency developing the
project.
- Oversaw that all targets and deadlines were met.
- Completed and corrected pressing issues, when necessary.
Jaarwis Technologies , Gurgaon, India • June - August, 2015
- Team member of Tag, Promon and Callfixie server development
team.
- Studied server codes of all projects at Jaarwis.
- Studied about and gave a presentation on Docker to peers.
- Built and deployed images to containerize all projects at
Jaarwis, in the development environment.
- Created modules to simulate Tag hardware behavior and its iOS
and Android app functionalities.
- Created backend module for CRM team to send automated emails
and SMS to customers.
- Used Redmine, Git, GitHub, Docker, Google Apps and Skype, etc.
in a professional environment.
University College London , London, UK • September 2016 - September 2017
Modules –
Machine Learning, Statistical Natural Language Processing,
Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Distributed Systems and
Security, Programming for Business Analytics, Complex Networks,
Web Economics, Interaction Design.
Maharaja Surajmal Institute , New Delhi, India • August 2013 - June 2016
Achieved First Division with Distinction.
Served as a member of the Tech Society for 2 years, later
working in a closed group with the professors to develop and
deploy an attendance portal (web and android), receiving special
recognition from the Director of Institute.
Modules –
Mathematics, C, Data Structures, Computer Architecture, OOPS,
C++, DBMS, Java, Web Technologies, PHP, Operating Systems, Data
Warehousing and Mining, Linux.
A static website to create an online presence for myself, as a
small project to enhance my front-end skills.
Technologies Used:
HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, JQuery.
As the head of the Tech Society, I led a team of 4 to develop and
deploy a system to digitalize the attendance marking system and
ease the effort of teachers in marking attendance. Generates
systematic and analytical reports for the directors and management
to refer.
Technologies Used:
PHP 5, HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, MySQL.
This live project, is a static website dedicated to providing
information about Divine Advice. It provides insight and
introduction to the various consultancy services offered by Divine
Advice.
Technologies Used:
HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap.
My first website designed with the purpose of providing football
news and updates, as well as archiving them, from leading news
websites of the English Press, to reduce the hassle of the fans
who need not visit multiple websites, instead finding all the
information in single, club-wise dedicated pages.
Technologies Used:
PHP 5, HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, MySQL, Bootstrap.