Kaustav Chakraborty
Senior Backend Engineer at HelloFresh
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKaustav Chakraborty is a Senior Backend Engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable microservices and infrastructure for startups and fast-growing product teams. Based in Dubai, he has led infrastructure, security and cloud initiatives at companies like HelloFresh and Medly, shaping org-wide practices including HIPAA-compliant designs and SSO integrations. He started and scaled infrastructure teams, managed cross-functional, distributed teams across India and the US, and balances hands-on coding with architectural ownership. His background at ThoughtWorks and open-source contributions to projects like the Bahmni EMR front-end show a strong full-stack empathy—fixing patient search UX issues and improving clinical UI components. Equally comfortable authoring RFCs and shipping backend services, he brings pragmatic security-first thinking to product development. Colleagues describe him as a mentor and infrastructure steward who turns complex compliance and scaling challenges into deployable, cost-aware solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Computer Science and Technology, Computer Science, Diploma in Computer Science and Technology, Computer Science at Kingston Polytechnic CollegeBachelor of Computer Application - BCA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Application - BCA, Computer Science at University of MadrasHigh School, Science, High School, Science at Sinthi R.B.T. Vidyapith
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
frontend10
react10
angularjs10
html9
emr9
css8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Bahmni/openmrs-module-bahmniapps
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Bahmni EMR Frontend code for Clinicians and staff members, written in Angular.JS and React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Kaustav primarily contributed to the front-end of the Bahmni EMR frontend application. Their commits focused on fixing bugs related to patient search functionality, including correcting message display and search bar behavior. The user also implemented features such as adding a spinner to the resend OTP button and fixing errors related to order set members and the retrospective mode. They worked on multiple UI components and views, as evidenced by the changes in controllers and views.
emrmhealthpatient-carehospital-management-systemangular-js
phoenixTW/react-tyspecript-rtl-styled-components-starter-kit
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
React template with React Testing Library and Styled Components
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reactjestemotionjstestingstyled-components
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