Engineer from Kolkata, India

RICHIKCHANDA

I am passionate about building products that are scalable, secure, and user-friendly, while trying to fill the void inside my knowledge bucket by learning new things with each passing day.

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Professional Journey

Work Experience

My professional journey has equipped me with diverse skills in full-stack development, blockchain technologies, and cloud infrastructure.

November 2023 to April 2025

Remote

Greyfinch

Mid Level Product Engineer

November 2023 to April 2025Remote

Worked on modernizing core services and improving reliability for a US-based Orthodontic Practice Management Software.

Key Achievements:

Was part of a 3-person team who worked on the overhaul of the payment infrastructure, modernizing core services and improving reliability
Defined and scoped requirements for a new standalone Pay App to support seamless one-off payments
Engineered and delivered the full-stack solution from scratch within a month, enabling rapid adoption across partner clinics
Played a key role in migrating legacy calendar modules to a modular and maintainable architecture
Rebuilt the UI using FullCalendar, matching Figma designs with pixel-perfect precision and improving user interactivity

January 2022 to May 2023

Remote

Questbook (YC 21)

Full Stack Blockchain Developer

January 2022 to May 2023Remote

Worked on their stack end-to-end, starting as a frontend engineer and expanding to blockchain and backend development.

Key Achievements:

Joined as a frontend engineer, working on the grants tool frontend
Worked on the set of smart contracts that power the Questbook grants tool
Added and modified handlers for the subgraph that indexed the events emitted by the contracts
Maintained the graph node for subgraph deployment on four chains: Optimism, Polygon, Celo and Goerli
Developed a Serverless API endpoint for Zapier integration
Built an email notification service using Serverless for tool users
Created a Telegram bot for user action notifications with a webhook and cron job based on pub-sub architecture
Acquired experience with AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS CloudWatch

Technical Expertise

Skills & Technologies

I've worked with a variety of technologies across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain to build scalable and efficient applications.