Rohit Datta
Board Of Directors at Formspree
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRohit Datta is a software engineer and product-focused leader with 11 years of experience building platform infrastructure and back-end systems, currently serving on the Board of Directors at Formspree. He previously co-founded and led Formspree as CEO, driving improvements to email delivery, templates, and error handling for a widely used form-handling project. Rohit spent part of his career at Apple on the Platform Infrastructure Engineering Queue Team, bringing large-scale systems experience from a top-tier engineering organization. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Columbia Business School, combining technical depth with business and product strategy. Based in New York, he blends hands-on engineering (notably back-end contributions to Formspree) with executive decision-making and startup scaling experience. A detail-driven operator, he focuses on improving developer and user experience through pragmatic infrastructure and clear error messaging.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Columbia Business School
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
745reputation
123kreached
6answers
2questions
Github Skills (15)
flask10
flask-ask10
sendgrid-mail9
python9
email-templates9
sendgrid9
facebook-graph-api6
html6
css6
twitter-bootstrap6
boto6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
facebook6
postgresql5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
formspree/formspree
Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
The successor to this repository is actively maintained at https://formspree.io. Its source code is not available
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:286 commits, 92 PRs, 108 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Rohit primarily focused on improving the back-end functionality and user experience of the formspree project. Their commits included updating the website to point users to the Github repository, adding features to the email templates and adding email settings. The user also contributed to enhancing the error messaging for sendgrid, and handling cases where the reply to email field had issues.
cssphpjavascriptflarumhtml-form
rohitdatta/ScoreTrack
Dec 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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