Abhishek Datta
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Datta is an ex-Microsoft software engineer and UCLA Anderson MBA with nine years of experience building scalable web and AI-infused products. He has driven measurable impact at scale—reducing slow interactions for 100M+ monthly users, cutting save failures in Word Web, and architecting monitoring that prevented 80% of performance regressions in production. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he’s shipped features used millions daily, built high-speed scrapers and custom DI frameworks in TypeScript, and optimized job schedulers and CI/CD for faster delivery. He mentors engineers, translates product needs into robust engineering solutions, and brings an uncommon mix of deep systems pragmatism and product empathy. Based in Los Angeles, he focuses now on generative AI and developer tooling, blending hands-on coding with product strategy. An early hacker at IIT Kanpur, he also has a history of automating real-world operations that saved thousands of dollars for student communities.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Japanese, English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (10)
algorithm10
data-structures10
javas10
algorithms10
insertion-sort10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
topological-sort10
java10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
abdatta/hall3-mess
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
The code behind the new Mess Automation System of Hall 3, IITK.
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 1 month
code-behindiitksystem-automationautomationmess
abdatta/bulls-eye
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
A reactive UI for bull queue with sockets for realtime updates.
Contributions:61 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 11 months
realtimereactrxjssocket-iobull-queue
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