Soumesh Banerjee
Senior Software Engineer at Norsk Rikstoto
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolSoumesh Banerjee is a Senior Software Engineer based in Oslo with 10 years of experience designing and shipping robust, cloud-ready backend systems and e-commerce platforms. He has driven migrations to cloud-native architectures and built highly available data platforms for energy and retail businesses at organizations like Norsk Rikstoto, Coop Norge, and Cognite. Soumesh blends full-stack sensibilities with an attention to developer experience—evidenced by meaningful open-source contributions to Espressif’s widely used VS Code ESP-IDF extension, where he improved build workflows, formatting, and Rainmaker integration. Comfortable across embedded tooling and large-scale backend services, he excels at translating complex requirements into maintainable systems that prioritize seamless user experiences. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful coder who doodles and prototypes ideas as part of his problem-solving process.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering , Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at Lovely Professional University
Hindi, Bengali, English
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Github Skills (14)
formatting10
prettify10
visual-studio-code-extension10
typescript10
formatter10
debug10
typescripts10
javascript10
text-format10
typescript-types10
code-formatting10
opencv6
jquery6
python6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Visual Studio Code extension for ESP-IDF projects
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 153 reviews, 86 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Soumesh contributed to the ESP-IDF extension by fixing bugs related to build output and project name retrieval. They implemented Prettier for code linting and formatting, enhancing code quality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user added features such as auto-saving before build and resolving monitor terminal issues, improving the development workflow. They also added Rainmaker support with login, logout, and node listing functionality.
visual-studio-codevscodevisual-studio-code-extensionespidf
pwmb/vscode-esp-idf-extension
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Visual Studio Code extension for ESP-IDF projects
Contributions:22 PRs, 198 pushes, 28 branches in 9 months
visual-studio-codevscodevisual-studio-code-extensionespidf
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