Ashis Laha
Founder at Drividend
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshis Laha is a founder and senior software engineer with nine years of experience building consumer and enterprise iOS products and scalable backend services, currently owning messaging features for Microsoft Teams and driving CarPlay integration. He combines deep mobile expertise—Swift/Objective-C, ARKit, CoreML, FaceID/TouchID—and frontend React Native with backend Node.js, PostgreSQL/MongoDB, CI/CD and cloud deployment. A hands-on ML practitioner (TensorFlow, Keras) who completed a masters in AI/ML, he also builds NLP systems with Dialogflow and has contributed widely to iOS open-source projects on GitHub. Ashis founded Ashis Academy to mentor middle-school STEM students and co-founded Drividend, reflecting a blend of product, education, and entrepreneurial drive. Known for optimizing message performance at scale and shipping cross-platform experiences (Walmart Mexico, Ola), he brings a pragmatic focus on telemetry-driven improvements and real-world user impact. Based in Redmond, he pairs research-informed ML skills with production-grade engineering at Microsoft.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS MSAI, Master of Science - MS MSAI at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at Jadavpur University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
2,246reputation
1.2mreached
34answers
3questions
android
top-5%
rest
top-5%
firebase
top-1%
Github Skills (37)
push-notifications10
triangle10
firebase10
appkit9
cocoa9
rest9
android9
uikit8
rectangle8
firebase-storage8
drawing8
ios8
draw8
experiences7
crashlytics7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ashislaha/NLP-based-Store-assistant-with-AR
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
ashislaha/todo-with-siri-shortcut
May 2020 - Jun 2020
let's create a small project of TODO list with limited set of operations to explore Siri Shortcuts.
Contributions:33 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 month
exploresmall-projectsirisiri-shortcutslet
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