Aram Bhusal

Engineering Leader helping you scale Technology and Teams.

Aram brewing coffee

SUMMARY

Technology Leader having vast experience scaling teams and technology towards success. Work perfectly with both remote and on premise teams. Experience leading teams and working with teams who are based out of different parts of the world. Expertise in building scalable systems with good knowledge of infrastructure/DevOps and Frontend technologies.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Head of Engineering, Consolidate Health

(August 2023 - Present)

  • Helping patients get control of their health data
  • Build and manage 1 stop solution to view health records from multiple platforms

Senior Engineering Manager, Colearn

(July 2021 - July 2023)

  • Led the Live Classes and Monetisation Verticals of Colearn.
  • Built new-age platforms for students to have the best online class experience.
  • Led a major re-write using Domain Driven Design(DDD) leading to better architected and stable system.
  • Major responsibilities have been increasing the quality and velocity of Engineering efforts, managing on-call, Promoting TDD and pair programming, Architecting and Reviewing systems, Maintaining playbooks and ensuring every Engineer has upward growth.

Associate Director of Engineering, Zoomcar

(September 2018 - July 2021)

  • Led the subscription team to create first of it’s kind car-subscription product in Zoomcar.
  • Led the technology for all consumer facing technologies in Zoomcar.
  • Helping in building and mentoring team leads for the next generation of leaders.
  • Architect systems and ship code as an individual contributor to the team.
  • Part of the core team handling B2B efforts in Zoomcar and Zoomcar Mobility Solutions.
  • Led the tech team which led zoomcar to international markets.
  • Introduced Kubernetes to the organisation and moved from VMs to Containers.

Independent Consultant

(January 2017 - September 2018)

  • Consulted for Adobe partner for projects involving Fortune 100 company and ship quality code.
  • Help set up a development centre in Bangalore while heading the frontend and full stack team.
  • Conduct regular training for organisations to help scale up developers.
  • Worked with some of the largest and well known media houses help ship world class products, leading the full development effort.

Head of Technology

PoshVine (June 2015 - January 2017)

  • Built a one-click multi-tenant loyality platform to launch dining programs within minutes.
  • Developed an analytical suite for brands to monitor health of programs.
  • Enabled brands to create segments and push messages using relevant channels (SMS/ Email/ Notififcations)
  • Created a custom messaging interface for brands to provide concierge services.
  • Created a basic Credit Card Recommendation Engine

Head of Technology

Cloudaria (March 2014 - June 2015)

  • Built content marketing platform from scratch, accompalishing content aggregation, curation, personalisation & publishing, along with all relevant analytics.
  • We had Fortune 500 companies as beta customer, while we were working directly with the CMO and her team to help with their content startegy.
  • Built a scheduler for users to schedule their posts.
  • Created a complete flow for user content generation and permission handling.
  • Built a v1 of content recommendation system.

Hacker In Chief + Technology Consultant

88 Cordials + Independent (June 2012 - March 2014)

  • Consulted for both on premise and remote teams.
  • Helped clients with building v1 of products, or taking the product to next level.
  • We also helped many companies with execution of huge projects. Like the health portal of
  • Government of Madhya Pradesh (Can’t disclose due to NDA)

  • Setting up the full program of an incubator in Bangalore (Can’t disclose more due to NDA)

    • Mentii - Mentoring Platform
      Mentoring platform to help users find mentors. Used by Columbia Business School. Multi-tenant application with all features of Social Network & Groups.

    • Springboard (Previously called MySliderule) Built the course catalog and the version 1 of the platform. Made a robust searchable catalog of all MOOC courses, along with features like review etc. Also v1 of paths which is seen today as the main feature.

    • BodyOM - Nut subscription startup Built the complete ecommerce module. Built a custom wordpress theme and multiple plugins to empower the product.

    • Android application for Education Institute Built a complete android app users could use to consume their course material. Requirement was to ensure IP was not compromised and users should not share content easily.

    • MuSigma Built a display board to showcase their products on a huge 60 inch screen, backend powered by Google Sheets. Built the complete campus recruitement module.

    • Divi Built a full scale editor for users to be able to create content for “Divi Books”

    • Knowledge Foundry Helped with the rails application for the main app. Helped gather reports from the data collected by the plugins and generate reports.

    • Krizda - Online Jwellery Store (Rails / HTML / CSS / JS) Create a complete E-Commerce solution from scratch up.

Intern / Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer

Kuliza Technologies (January 2011 - June 2012)

  • Was part of the core team building an app for ephimeral messaging.
  • Built the Blackberry app and the Backend in Spring Framework
  • Was awarded Za-BOND, which translates to best Employee of the month.
  • Built one of the most stable applications with no complaints from users, using Rails.

SKILLS

  • Ruby On Rails (12+ years)
  • Full Stack Developer (10+ years)
  • Python (3 years)
  • Php (5 years)
  • Android Development (2 years)
  • Html & CSS & Javascript (8+ years)

TALKS

JSFOO 2019 - Talk by Aram Bhusal on “Redis Anti-Patterns”

RubyConf 2018 - Talk by Aram Bhusal on “Multi-tenant applications and challenges I faced”

PUBLICATIONS

Language independent Lexicon Building Tool

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December 2010
 In this paper, we propose a system for aligning the bilingual corpora to create the dictionary for English to Indian languages and vice versa which can be used in different Natural Language Processing applications.

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