Summary
Ishaan Dhamija is an engineering manager and founder with 9 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and scaling hiring practices across growth-stage startups. He started as a solo Android developer in college and progressed through roles at Delhivery, Moonfrog Labs, and Swiggy, where he not only shipped production services but conducted over 200 technical interviews. Frustrated by slow, expensive recruitment funnels, he founded HeapSelect to deliver pre-vetted engineering talent with a data-driven approach that claims 2x speed at a fraction of traditional agency cost. Now at Qoala leading engineering, he blends people-first leadership with deep technical experience in Node.js, Redis, MongoDB, AWS Lambda/Kinesis and event-driven architectures. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic interviewer and recruiter who designs realistic hiring assignments—skills that drive both better hires and more efficient teams. Outside work his GitHub quip—"My app never has bugs. It just develops random features."—hints at a pragmatic, witty approach to engineering trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology