Bishakh Ghosh
Co-Founder at Pinggy
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBishakh Ghosh is a PhD-trained engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building systems at the intersection of distributed systems, security, networking, and web technologies. Based in Kolkata, he transitioned from a research-focused PhD at IIT Kharagpur and internships at IBM to bootstrapping two products at Pinggy, blending deep academic rigor with hands-on product development. His background includes impactful open-source contributions to the DIPY medical-imaging library, where he improved code quality and fixed visualization and testing issues—an indicator of care for maintainability in complex codebases. Comfortable across research and production contexts, he brings strengths in backend development, code hygiene, and system design. Colleagues can expect a founder who pairs analytical depth with practical engineering discipline and a penchant for shipping robust, well-tested software.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Higher Secondary at Nava NalandaBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at National Institute of Technology DurgapurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Bengali
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
medical-imaging10
python10
neuroimaging10
testing9
trac8
tractography8
git6
gitlab6
equality6
machine-learning6
diffusion-mri6
bundle6
bitbucket6
sublime-text6
django6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dipy/dipy
Feb 2016 - May 2017
DIPY is the paragon 3D/4D+ medical imaging library in Python. Contains generic methods for spatial normalization, signal processing, machine learning, statistical analysis and visualization of medical images. Additionally, it contains specialized methods for computational anatomy including diffusion, perfusion and structural imaging.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 24 PRs, 155 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Bishakh primarily focused on fixing pep8 errors across several files, including those related to visualization, workflows, and testing. They made changes to improve code style and adherence to coding standards within the project. Additionally, the user addressed and fixed a specific error in `viz/projections.py`. Further contributions included updates and improvements across various test files.
signalpythonmicrostructurespatialtractography
ghoshbishakh/blog
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:91 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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