Ganesh Datta

Ganesh Datta

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Cofounder & CTO
San Diego, California, United States

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  • Cortex
    Cofounder & CTO
    Cortex
    Nov 2019 - Current (7 years)
    We’re hiring! Shoot an email to ganesh@cortex.io

    Building the Engineering Operations Platform that helps teams improve their operational maturity and reduce developer friction. Request a demo at https://cortex.io

    Backed by Sequoia, IVP, Tiger Global, and YCombinator (W20).
  • Mission Lane
    Principal Software Engineer
    Mission Lane
    Aug 2019 - Nov 2019 (4 months)
  • Mission Lane
    Senior Software Engineer
    Mission Lane
    Jan 2019 - Aug 2019 (8 months)
    Lendup’s card business is now Mission Lane. Continuing to build financial products for the underserved.
  • LendUp
    Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
    LendUp
    Mar 2018 - Jan 2019 (11 months)
    Leading the development of runtime credit underwriting infrastructure (feature extraction, document fetching, credit policy execution, etc). This includes the design and implementation of a system that spans services in Python, Clojure, Java, and Scala.

    Introduced Protobuf into the system to ensure strong contracts between services in different languages and to enforce consistency across the offline and online data science processes.

    As tech lead, I was in charge of quarterly and longer term plans and roadmap for the underwriting team, the technical vision for the systems, and execution of our goals. I mentored engineers and led initiatives to improve the quality of engineering at Lendup.
  • LendUp
    Software Engineer
    LendUp
    Apr 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year)
    Designed and implemented a large scale refactor of the account management system and its data models to improve performance, auditability, developer productivity, and system confidence. Emphasized functional patterns into the codebase, including immutability and modeling the system as a pure function on an event-based data model. Decreased response times 5x and reduced errors to essentially nonexistant. The system now handles, on average, 50-60 requests per second.

    Continued to performance tune our systems, including optimizing Postgres access patterns in a data-driven manner to improve response times.
  • LendUp
    Associate Software Engineer
    LendUp
    Sep 2016 - Mar 2017 (7 months)
    Innovating cutting edge payments infrastructure. Designed and built an extensible state-machine based journaling system to ensure payment integrity.

    Helped build data definition standards across the company for consistent and understandable data access.

    Performance tuned our account management system, shortening response times across multiple endpoints tenfold.

    Play! Framework, Dropwizard, Postgres, Java.
  • URX
    Engineering Intern
    URX
    Jun 2015 - Aug 2015 (3 months)
    Owned and completed multiple projects from start to finish, including the design and execution process.

    Used the Twisted reactor to build a health check system for the public facing API. Designed an asynchronous connector for SQLAlchemy to cooperate with the Twisted reactor.

    Designed and built a highly modular and extensible reporting platform to aggregate data from various sources and compile them into reports. Made it easy to add new reports, including data sources, data filtering, and data processing.

    Managed, designed, and built a Flask application with a fellow intern. Architected a job queue/worker system built on top of Redis to allow processing of large amounts of data. Easily scaled by spinning up n
  • StrongAuth Inc
    Intern
    StrongAuth Inc
    Jun 2012 - Aug 2012 (3 months)
    Using Java, developed a multithreaded file traverser utilizing ThreadPools, which searched the file system for certificate files. The program would then encrypt the files using CryptoKey and store the encrypted keys on the KeyAppliance (a device which facilitates the storage and retrieval of encrypted data). The application would then erase the certificate from the filesystem. Used SQL and JDBC for storing metadata of the encrypted certs.
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    Web Developer
    Food and Remedy LLC
    Feb 2012 - Dec 2014 (2 years 11 months)
    Designed a custom template with Bootstrap LESS and jQuery.

    Heavily profiled performance of the website in order to optimize speed. Optimizations included compression/minifying of assets, restructuring the template for above the fold content, optimizing queries on individual pages, and improving image delivery. Was able to successfully cut page loading and server response time in half.

    Deployed on DigitalOcean. Tuned for performance using varnish cache, Nginx, and secured the site against XML-RPC and other such wordpress-based attacks.
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  • UC San Diego
    BS Computer Science, Computer Science
    UC San Diego
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 (3 years 1 month)
    Magna cum laude, graduated early.
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    py-etherpad - Python wrapper for Etherpad
    Aug 2015 - Current (11 years 3 months)
    Easy to use Etherpad client for Python designed to make accessing the HTTP API much simpler and pythonic.
  • S
    Securaid
    Aug 2011 - Current (15 years 3 months)
    Started an online cybersecurity resource to educate the masses about the necessity to keep their online lives secure. Developed a custom Wordpress theme using PHP, JavaScript + jQuery, and Bootstrap.

    Worked with an global team of engineers to aggregate cyber-safety information and write articles and blog posts, making sure articles were easily understandable and contained correct information.

    Marketed and publicized this website, which was featured on newspapers including San Jose Mercury News, Cupertino Courier, and IndiaWest.
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    CSE 110 Software Engineering Project
    Jan 2015 - Mar 2015 (3 months)
    Led a team of my peers in developing a web application for a telecom company. As the architect, I designed the application including the backend and front-end technology decisions. Used various design patterns to develop it in a robust manner. Implemented a Django backend using Django Rest Framework, and used user roles and permissions for customers and representatives. Developed an AngularJS frontend with Bootstrap.
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    Moxie Center Startup Team
    Apr 2014 - Dec 2014 (9 months)
    Applied and was accepted into the Moxie Center incubator at UCSD. Participated and won in the 2013 pitch fest.

    Executed requirement gathering, customer development, product design, and architectural design.

    Developed a REST API in Flask, using Postgres and Redis as data stores. Designed an authentication scheme using JSON Web Tokens to consume the REST API, and Redis for session management.
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    Moxie Center PitchFest Audience Choice Award
    Issued by Moxie Center
    Pitched a business idea and revenue model to a panel of experts, and won the Audience Choice Award along with my partner.

    http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/node/2515
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