zeeshan
chawdhary
summary
Jogeshwari, Mumbai--
"I don't bring anything to the table, I build the table" - Me on Myself.
With 10+ years of rich technology leadership experience. I have had a great
ride on the information super highway. Having worked with great companies
like Foursquare, Nokia, Marriott, search engines - Google, Bing as well as
startups like Foursquare, Twitter.
Experience in building Web Apps, Mobile Apps, Connected Car Apps that
power million of users, along with handling Dev-Ops in making sure the
systems are scalable and yet profitable for the business.
I strive to lead a technology team that works on global trends in technology to
unravel new potential business, service existing clients and innovate in the
line of business.
Specialties: C#, Windows Phone, LAMP Stack, Data mining and Extraction
,Joomla, Wordpress, Android, Web Services , PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Sphinx
Search, iOS , Android and Technical Writing.
skills
Parse.com
Android
Web Development
Web Services
Mobile Applications
PHP
LAMP
XML
JavaScript
Open Source
WordPress
Mobile Devices
Databases
Start-ups
Linux
Software Development
Cloud Computing
Web Applications
PostgreSQL
Content Management
AJAX
MySQL
iOS development
iOS
APIs
Programming
jQuery
Git
iPhone
Joomla
JSON
E-commerce
Technical Writing
Published Author
Apache
.NET
C#
iPhone development
Subversion
REST
CMS
PostGIS
Mobile Technology
iPhone Application Development
Team Leadership
Agile Methodologies
experience
HTML 5
MVC
KML
WooCommerce
Voler Car Private Limited
02 / 2015 - 11 / 2015
Chief Technology Officer
Successfully launched VolerCar's Web properties built from ground up. Identified the right
technology, right design partners and implemented the product with a small team, from
Wireframing to Website launch.
Built a strong booking engine for Car Rentals, upto half an hour accuracy. Orchestrated a
Car Management System for ground operations. Lead tech-marketing to identify new
avenues for partnerships with established travel players.
Identified vendors for UI/UX : From market research to photoshop files, oversaw the
flow of information from WireFrame to Design.
Built the Inventory Management System, Website and Android App with a small team of
3 developers.
Identified vendor for iPhone app, architected the mobile platform using Swift 2, app
available at https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/voler/id-
Identified and tied up with ClearTrip (Activities section) for New Delhi , Groupons for
Deals.
Worked with Hardware vendor for aggregating Car Diagnostics Data (via ODB port) and
integration with the system for identifying user driving behaviour and penalisation for
out-of-agreement driving terms.
BikeSeeker
07 / 2014 - 01 / 2015
Ideator at BikeSeeker.com - India's First Bike Pooling Service
Conceptualized and soft launched India's First Bike Pooling Service. Services included
MotorCycle Pooling as well as Self Drive Motorcycle Rentals.
Piloted the product for a few months, had to pull back because of lack of Government
Policies.
Project lives on as a side project at http://www.bikeseeker.com
Nestopia
12 / 2013 - 06 / 2014
Chief Technology Officer
Nestopia is India's first marketplace for interior styling.
Using the awesome WordPress CMS with WooCommerce and Podsframework to build a
Platform (Marketplace + Blogging Network + Community Site) for Architects, Interior
Designers, Luxury Store owners, Manufacturers.
iCityConcierge
08 / 2012 - 02 / 2013
Chief Technology Officer
A Travel Startup with focus on personalized travel experience. Hired and built a core team
to write the CMS, API and iPhone App with limited budget and resources.
Wcities
02 / 2007 - 08 / 2012
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
I raised a team of 25 techies over a period of 5 years, starting with 3 core developers to
build the CMS, API, Websites, XML Feeds to clients all over the world. The Platform I
envisioned and built is still being used after 5 long years !
Relaunched wcities.com ( http://onwired.com/portfolio/wcities-city-guides/) by
identifying the right technology (LAMP), right design agency (onwired) and parallel
development to support the old and new website side - by - side.
Rebuilt XML Syndication for Places, Events, Movies for 400+ cities in 12 languages,
served daily/weekly over FTP/SFTP
Launched a TV app on Samsung Smart TV
Served 1 billion + hits on Nokia and Motorola location based apps.
Built a scalable API using SphinxSearch+RackspaceCloud that can scale to billions of API
hits in a month, successfully valuated by OEM installations on Nokia Symbian (OVI
Maps).
Wcities
02 / 2007 - 06 / 2008
Project Manager
Implemented a number of Projects and adding up new content partners, across multiple
countries.
PaGaLGuY
06 / 2006 - 12 / 2006
Software Craftsman
Managing and Running India's Largest MBA Portal. * Was Involved in Designing and
Implementation of the Website and Forum. * Adding / Enhancing current website and
adding new products .
India Games Ltd
05 / 2005 - 05 / 2006
Software Programmer
Writing J2ME games and Porting on various devices. * Successfully implemented a 3D
game from concept/coding to global launch. * Ported / Enhanced a number of 2D and 3D
games.
Nods Consulting Pvt Ltd
2005 - 2005
Project Trainee
Built a 3D Virtual Showroom for visualizing clothes in 3D using VB.net and DirectX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJjzvEW_EU
education
Datta Meghe College of Engineering
2002 - 2005
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) , Information Technology
University of Mumbai
2002 - 2005
Computer Engineering
Babasaheb Gawde Institute of Technology
Diploma , Computer Engineering
interests
.Net, C#, LAMP, Android, iOS, Travel
1999 - 2002
languages
publications
English
Hindi
Marathi
Urdu
iPhone Location Aware Apps - by Example - Beginners
Guide
01 / 2011
PacktPub · Authors: Zeeshan Chawdhary, susmita p · http://www.packtpub.com/iphonelocation-aware-apps-beginners-guide/book
A hands on book on iOS 5 with 5 real world applications.
Windows Phone 7.5: Building Location Aware
Applications
07 / 2012
PacktPub · Authors: Zeeshan Chawdhary · http://www.packtpub.com/windows-phone-7-5building-location-aware-applications/book
Introductory book on Windows Phone , using Location services and Maps. Readers are
taught to build 2 real world windows phone application using Eventful.com and AOL's
Patch.com APIs using C# as the programming language.
Instant iBooks How-to
02 / 2013
PacktPub · Authors: Zeeshan Chawdhary · http://www.packtpub.com/how-to-utilize-appleibooks/book
This book is for literary geeks who want to explore the Apple iBooks universe. From
buying books from the Apple iBookstore to organizing books and PDFs, this book goes
forward by explaining how to write an interactive book with iBooks Author.
Introduction to PostGIS
05 / 2014
BinPress.com · Authors: Zeeshan Chawdhary · http://www.binpress.com/tutorial/introductionto-postgis-part-1/24
A comprehensive tutorial on getting started with the PostGIS spatial extension for
PostgreSQL.
