Summary
Debashish Ghatak is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, product-focused systems and engineering platforms. He has a track record of shipping high-impact infrastructure and product features—from launching Gojek in Singapore and creating an engineering portal that achieved rapid MAU growth, to solo consulting engagements that delivered measurable business outcomes like a zero-downtime EKS migration and performance-critical rewrites. As a hands-on builder he’s led startups (Co-Founder/CTO at Shovel Company) and created customer-facing tools such as ClaimGenie, while more recently founding DashApply to help job seekers land interviews. Comfortable across cloud-native ops, backend services (Go, Redis), and product strategy, he pairs technical depth with user-driven product instincts. Based in Old Toronto, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a history of turning critical reliability and performance problems into tangible business value.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
English, Hindi, Bengali