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title: Shrikant Sharat Kandula &mdash; Rèsumè
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[sharats.me](/) ·
March 1988
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Namaste! I'm Shri, from India. I'm interested in working with **remote** companies, working close to the **Indian time zone**. Prefer software companies.

## Skills / Highlights

1. **Languages**: Python, Javascript, Typescript, Java, SQL, Bash, Go, … English, Hindi, Telugu.

1. Several open source projects and contributions on [GitHub](/gh). May provide a better idea of my experience than this document.

1. Currently building [Prestige](https://prestige.dev), as an open-source side project, mostly because I needed a tool like this for myself.

1. Vim user since 2007, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate since 2015, are both still my preferred hammers at most nails.

1. **Actuarial Subjects**: Financial Math, Financial Econ, Statistics, Models, +5 more.

1. [**Certified AWS Developer Associate**](https://www.credly.com/badges/f1c8ec16-3d58-4b1c-90ea-7c1800283ea0), which means, well, that I can tell the difference between EC2 and raisins.

## Experience

Most recent at the top. Intentionally brief, only to serve as conversation starters.

Mar 2020 &mdash; Developer with **Appsmith**, Remote
:   Building a new-age open-source low-code tool to make building internal tools super easy, super focused, and super fun.

Nov 2017 &mdash; Developer with **S&P Global**, Mumbai
:   Worked with a team on a Spring application for computing custom indices based on the day's market data. Each custom index's calculation was coded as a Python script, that was executed in a Jython sandbox. The computed index values were then stored and used for EOD report generation.

Dec 2014 &mdash; Consultant with **Calypso Tech**, Mumbai
:   Worked with multiple institutions like Emirates NBD (Dubai), FHLB (San Francisco), Letterone (London), IndusInd Bank (Mumbai) etc., to fix-up or implement a risk management solution for their trading team(s).

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~Two year **sabbatical**, living with my family, training myself on Actuarial Sciences, and on how to be an overall professional. Yes, being an effective communicator, and being a respected professional, are **skills that ought to be studied**.

Dec 2010 &mdash; Support Engineer with **Calypso Tech**, Mumbai
:   Started as a support engineer for infrastructure and core application related problems for customers, ended up automating a lot of their support processes using Python.

Aug 2009 &mdash; Developer with **Knolskape**, Bengaluru
:   Built business simulation games and training portals, both as part of a team, and solo, for clients such as INSEAD Business School, JP Morgan among others.

### Internships

1. CALT (Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies) at **INSEAD Business School**, Fontainebleau.

1. PSD (Practice School Division) at **BITS**, Pilani.

1. Business Intern with Hetero Drugs, Hyderabad.

## Other

1. Graduated from BITS (Birla Institute of Technology & Science), Pilani, Rajasthan, with M.Sc. [Tech.] Information Systems, in the Summer of 2009.

1. If you've read this far, thank you.

1. Hobbies include reading on my Kindle, running around with my ~2yo and playing on my XBox with my wife.

1. Travelled/Worked around the world, India, the US, France, Dubai.

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