Ashin K N

• Managing Director at YouGotaGift Pvt Ltd, CyberPark, Calicut, Kerala, India • It's an Offshore Development Centre of YouGotaGift.com Ltd, Dubai, UAE • Tasked to set up the company in the Special Economic Zone effectively • ODC centre started its contribution in just 2 months • Sorted and solved all of the legal formalities with the help of legal experts. • Presented the proposed 5 year plan and projections and obtained SEZ approval from the Development Commissioner, SEZ Office, Cochin, India. • Hiring from Juniors to the higher management

• Scaling the technology department precisely to cop up the business growth • Solving technology hiccups, keeping team in sync, being a bridge between each team, funnelling tasks to the appropriate team • Maintaining Backlogs, prioritizing tasks, assigning it to the right team and engineer, mentoring and getting it done • Work closely with the product department • Keeping an eye on the logs, user queries, user behaviour, data etc... Constantly suggesting and improving products ( either the product workflow, Code, technology stack etc.. ) accordingly. • Hiring the best suitable engineers • Sometimes being an HR solving issues affecting productivity of Tech, finding the bad apple and taking the tough decisions,  getting the employees on track, getting them engaged and helping them maintaining good relationship with co workers, providing them the best possible top equipment to work with etc..

• Took incharge and saved the company technology department during its crucial time • Hired and built a strong team, that laid the foundation of the technology department of the company, who in turn lead their own team and are the present managers • Trained the team and created a process from coding standard, code review ( github ), testing and release • Hired and guided the devops engineer to move the infrastructure from Rackspace to AWS, From single server to Scalable server, Local Media / Static file access to S3, In addition to reducing the cost of the infrastructure to 50%, efficiently made use of the AWS Credits to run the infrastructure free for a year. At present it runs on a the most modern technologies like, Multi AZ ECS Cluster, Docker, micro-service architecture, AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Kenises, Elastic cache cluster, WAF, CI/CD Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana, Elastic Search, CloudFront, S3, Sentry and many more. Running more than 100+ servers in different region serving 100+ million requests. • Cancelled a low performing outsourced mobile app development company, took control of the Mobile APP development, Launched the stable iOS and Android APPs in house • Initiated the process to move the Apps from monolithic to micro services and to build it in the top stacks. Released https://rewards.yougotagift.com/ as the first product in it, built on Django, ReactJS, RestAPI and AWS • Released the well documented, highly secure eGift API product, used by large scale corporates to order eGift Cards. A great successful product serving more than million transactions per day. https://yougotagift.com/docs/api/corporate-rewards/ • Reduced distractions to the technology department by automating or documenting most of the frequently made requests from the other departments • Made sure the engineers have the right devices to work with.

• Full stack engineer primarily worked on Python, Django, CSS, Html, JS • Worked under two different managers, observed and learnt the best part of them

• Lead Web Application Developer in Chelsio's Unified Wire Manager Product • Involved in designing the product and workflow, with the input collected from the product owners • Built a modern user friendly Unified Wire Manager web application.

• Developed various web products of the company • Worked as a full stack web developer

• Full stack engineer involved in building and releasing companies important web products