Contact
Pankaj Soni
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Lead Architect at Wafer Messenger
South West Delhi, Delhi, India
Links
LinkedIn
Software Joint (Company)
GitHub
Top Skills
Summary
Internet entrepreneur with a history creating HA, Distributed
Systems. Skilled in Product Development, Start-ups, Strategic
Planning. Strong technical skills in Erlang, Java, Android, Swift,
XMPP, AWS, SQL, Cassandra, JavaScript
Erlang
Android, Java
Swift, iOS
Cassandra
Experience
Wafer Messenger
Lead Architect
May 2017 - Present
New Delhi Area, India
Wafer is a mobile phone messaging platform focused on limitless creativity
and openness. Creativity in the sense that it gives users the tools to create and
overlay media in ways never seen before. Openness in a sense that it allows
users to have single or group conversations with any of their phone contacts
(even if your contact does not have Wafer installed yet). Try it out for yourself,
everything is free.
- Responsible for Development & Release of new features for Wafer
Messenger
- Managing the development and dev-ops team
Software Joint Pvt. Ltd.
Chief Technical Officer
December 2013 - Present
New Delhi Area, India
I have been with this organisation since its foundation. It has been around 4
years, I am associated with this organisation. It has been a great journey with
good learning experience for me.
As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in Software Joint I am responsible to
oversee current technology and create relevant policy. I support organisation
with my business knowledge necessary to align technology-related decisions.
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My role involves following:
- Identify opportunities and risks for the business.
- Manage research and development (R&D).
- Monitor technology and social trends that could impact the company.
- Participate in management decisions about corporate governance.
- Communicate the company's technology strategy to partners, management,
investors and employees.
- Maintain current information about technology standards and compliance
regulations.
Wafer Messenger
Technical Team Lead
March 2015 - May 2017 (2 years 3 months)
New Delhi Area, India
Wafer Inc. is the international company behind Wafer Messenger, the mobile
messaging platform.
- Responsible for Development & Release of new features
- Managing the development and devops team
Meucci
Erlang Developer, Database Admin
August 2015 - January 2017 (1 year 6 months)
Tel Aviv Area, Israel
Meucci are a team with big ideas. They implemented a way to use normal
cell networks (not data) to let their users talk to their contacts anywhere in the
world, regardless of whether or not the person they’re calling has Meucci –
effectively erasing the need for long distance calling. Single contacts or groups
of people, text-based chats or group calls, that too at no extra charges.
- Establishing the needs of users & monitoring user access & security
- Developing, testing and deployment of communications related backend
architecture
- Monitoring performance & managing parameters to provide fast responses to
front-end users
- Mapping out the conceptual design for a planned database, maintaining data
standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Act
- Developing, managing & testing back-up & recovery plans
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Samsung Electronics
Software Developer
April 2010 - March 2012 (2 years)
Bengaluru Area, India
A South Korean multinational electronics company where I worked for almost 2
years.
I was part of RnD team for real time communications.
Our work base gave way to Samsung's Chat On application, near field
communications, RF4CE ZigBee house automation.
The reason to move on was the restricted growth scope and regionalism in
Bengaluru.
Oracle
Software Developer
September 2009 - February 2010 (6 months)
Bengaluru Area, India
An American multinational computer technology corporation, where I was the
part of Identity Management Division.
Because of Identity Manager's innovative design, enterprises can elegantly
incorporate necessary business changes at minimal cost, while avoiding
enforced customization that might be necessary with other provisioning
systems.
The reason to leave this profile was recession which occurred in 2009, Oracle
changed our permanent employment to temporary work contract and reduced
the pay offered by half.
VERISIGN
Software Developer
January 2009 - June 2009 (6 months)
Bengaluru Area, India
The journey of my work life begins from this America based company as a
Software Developer - Intern.
I handled VeriSign's PKI security reviews for the then internet explorer.
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Blackberry's auto certificate issuance and authorization to network.
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Science And Technology (M.Sc. Tech.), Information
Systems · (2005 - 2009)
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