Dipankar Sarkar

Dipankar Sarkar

Internet | Mobile | Social media | Strategy | Entrepreneur

Delhi Area, India

Current
  • Director (Technology) at Kwippy

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Past
  • Software engineer at Kirusa
  • Director (ICT) at STIR-e
  • Founder at Electrosocial

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Education
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • The Mother's International School
  • The Future Foundation School,Kolkata
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Dipankar Sarkar’s Summary

Dipankar Sarkar is interested in startups, open source and scalable technologies.

· He is the brain behind Kwippy(http://kwippy.com) which is one cool micro-blogging platform & also works with Mosambe (http://mosambe.com) which is one of India's best professional networks. In his spare time, he writes smaller applications which interface with many of the popular social networks like Facebook, twitter, Myspace.

· He believes that open source is the future and does his 2 cents contributing for OSVDB (The Open Source Vulnerability Database ), and helps them maintain their main web application. http://osvdb.org . He keeps active interest in cryptography and network security.

· He has a patent pending 894/DEL/2009, which is related to the mobile VAS industry and is in the process of filing some more patents.

· He has been the part of Google's summer of code for 2005-06 and 2006-07 (India's first 5 participants in GSoC), contributing code to open source projects. He has undertaken workshops ranging on topics from windows embedded programming to writing Facebook applications in python.

· Lately, he has been working with non-technical start ups as the world needs sustainable enterprises to ensure a bright future for our future generations. To this end he has been a part of STIR-e and green flip which both focus on creating long term value by promoting green & social technologies.

Technical Experience
Languages: Java, PHP, ruby, python, C++/C, Java, C#, javascript, CSS, HTML
Platforms: J2EE, django, webpy, rails, symphony, cakephp, codeigniter, Mozilla , .NET, iphone, J2ME
DB : MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL
OS : Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD , embedded linux
Others : kannel, sphinx, xapian, lucene, Apache, nginx, Amazon (EC2 , S3)

Email me at me@dipankar.name

Dipankar Sarkar’s Specialties:

entrepreneurship, social media, startups, Internet, mobile, clean tech, strategy, development, digital marketing, green, research, telecom, management, consulting

Dipankar Sarkar’s Experience

  • CEO

    STRATESSENCE

    (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

    July 2009 — Present (6 months)

    Stratessence, chiefly works with two focussed verticals, namely, Web/Mobile Consulting, and Strategic Consulting for Business Development. We believe that strategy drives a company in an age where implementation is usually outsourced. We are here to push and enable companies to live up to their potential.

    Stratessence has a multi-dimensional team comprising people from IT, web, mobile, Cloud Computing, Social Media, Strategy, Marketing, Corporate Law, Entrepreneurship, and Energy.

    Visit us at http://www.stratessence.com
    Mail me at dipankar@stratessence.com to know more about us.

  • Founder

    GreenFlip

    (Privately Held; Renewables & Environment industry)

    July 2009 — Present (6 months)

    GreenFlip is a Social Enterprise that integrates the challenges of making available a mass product, at an affordable price and user requirements through a creative business model thus enabling economic sustainability and an informed, resolute eco-consumerist culture. It is where the consumption pattern becomes meaningful, trendy, and earth friendly.

    For more about us contact us at contact@greenflip.in
    Do visit our website http://greenflip.in

  • CTO

    Kaasu Info Ventures Pvt.Ltd

    (Internet industry)

    August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

    We are a start-up focused on software development. Along the way we also like to experiment and break new ground. At all times we are focused on developing neat, secure and scalable products over the web.

    We are the force behind http://mosambe.com. I am the CTO and my primary role is to manage the technical needs of our product development cycle and at time, focus on the business needs of the applications we develop.

    My profile can be found at http://dipankar.mosambe.com
    Email: dipankar@kaasuventures.com

  • Director (Technology)

    Kwippy

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    January 2008 — Present (2 years )

    Kwippy is a nanoblogging platform and a social network integrated with your IMs. It adapts according to you and integrates into your workflow, so you don’t have to actively blog. In short kwippy does the blogging, while you just express. I am the Director (Technology) and my area of focus implementation wise is systems, search, IM technologies.

    May 2009 - Dataquest presents Top 25 Indian Web 2.0 Start-ups - (Kwippy)
    http://www.cybermedia.co.in/press/pressrelease124.html

    April 2009 - Kwippy features in Economic Times -
    http://blog.kwippy.com/2009/04/09/161/

    Website : http://www.kwippy.com
    Mail : dipankar@kwippy.com

  • Software engineer

    Kirusa

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    September 2009 — December 2009 (4 months)

    Kirusa is the world’s leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services (VAS).

    Kirusa’s flagship product Voice SMS is the next generation of SMS, giving end users added flexibility and freedom when communicating with others. Voice SMS opens an unparalleled opportunity for mobile carriers and service providers to promote a "must have" service that translates into new users, new usages and new markets. Adding the power of voice to today's SMS messaging is among the most potent ways of increasing revenue flow from existing subscribers to maximize ROI.

    I worked in kirusa maintaining and extending their Missed call alert (MCA) application, it was a high load, high availability application that used to interface with multiple channels of the vendor system.

    You can find out more about kirusa at http://kirusa.com

  • Director (ICT)

    STIR-e

    (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    July 2009 — November 2009 (5 months)

    Stimulating Innovation, Resource & Entreprise (STIR-e) is a Not-for-Profit Organization, which aims to promote social entrepreneurship and inspire entrepreneurial minds to bring economic transformation and measurable social impact by integrating innovation with pattern-breaking ideas and focused mentoring. STIR-e aims to become a niche strategic advisory for social enterprises that create innovative, market based solutions to poverty, environment and sustainable development. STIR-e integrates the challenges of access to appropriate resources, investments and investment risk mitigation with a robust social entrepreneurship model adaptable to multiple texts and sub-texts of the market economy.

    STIR-e seeks to build unique opportunities for the market, environment and social agendas to come together and address concerns of poverty, livelihood and balanced development processes. Our aim is creation of horizontal, community based markets appropriately suited for the multi-bottom line focus of social enterprises. STIR-e plans to raise and deploy a Youth Social Venture Fund aimed at establishing a culture of entrepreneurial solutions to social challenges amongst the youth. We seek to motivate/ equip institutions with appropriate strategic planning & implementation knowledge and skills to bring about a holistic change.

    STIR-e holds a deep commitment to the creation of a new, informed, and passionate world of investing that strategically moves more capital to social good.

    My primary area of work was the marketing and sales work which was primarily online. After handling over all the operational aspects to other founders, I am associated as an Honorary member of the registered society.

  • Founder

    Electrosocial

    (Internet industry)

    May 2009 — November 2009 (7 months)

    Electrosocial is a team of internet professionals with an expertise in social media. Our work is divided into two verticals namely building interactive applications for various social platforms like linkedin, facebook, myspace, orkut etc and designing social media solutions for brands and individuals.

    We are into pushing social media into old style business to provide them with the impetus to reach the next level. The idea is to use the various existing social tools and increase the brand value manifold with the right web strategy.

    Do email me at dipankar@electrosocial.com for more details about how we can can enable your business to grow.

    visit us at http://electrosocial.com for more information.

  • Director

    Green Venture Camp

    (Privately Held; Renewables & Environment industry)

    January 2009 — November 2009 (11 months)

    Green Venture Camp is a platform to promote emerging cleantech companies in India. Working towards connecting the green entrepreneur to the investor and making the world a better place for the future.

    This camp is going to take place in late 2009/early 2010 and promises to be a breakthrough event for cleantech companies in India. We are looking for sponsorship and quality start ups. Come together to make the world a greener and cleaner place.

    Read more at http://greenventurecamp.com

    Feel free to email me at dipankar@greenventurecamp.com about more information regarding the event.

  • Consultant

    Opdrage Venture Partners

    (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    March 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 9 months)

    Opdrage Venture Partners, as the name suggests, exists to help spot and nurture entrepreneurs with the potential to disrupt markets and business models, usually through technology and innovative sales strategy.

    Opdrage works with early stage ventures and companies in transition, including those looking at funding options. It provides strategic inputs to key management teams in scale-up and rapid growth stage. We at Opdrage Venture Partners draws its inspiration from the true venture capital (VC) model, where venture capitalists spend significant time with their portfolio companies, working closely with the entrepreneurs to create significant value.

    For the most promising businesses, we actively seek funding with them, using our global network of investors and partners.

    My role is to deal with the portfolio companies and clients directly, and also technically evaluate them whenever necessary. Formerly, I was the "Geek in residence" of the firm and still actively maintain the website / IT infrastructure.

    I was featured as a part on opdrage in this Business Standard article on 15th July, 2009.
    http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=363923

    Website : http://opdrage.com
    Email : dipankar@opdrage.com

  • Software engineer

    Clickable

    (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)

    Clickable makes it easy for advertisers and agencies to manage pay-per-click (PPC) performance across all major advertising networks. It is a Techcruch top 50 company and has done some amazing work in this niche.

    My area of work is in security and internal product engineering. The goal was to make the current application robust and scalable for the future.

    The technologies involved are .NET platform (C#, ASP.NET), MS SQL.

    An official clickable blog post about me- http://www.clickable.com/blogs/clickableblog/archive/2009/04/21/linux-to-windows-introduction-to-dipinkar-sarkar.aspx

    Website : http://www.clickable.com

  • Software Engineer

    MPower Mobile (formerly Sapphire)

    (Wireless industry)

    February 2008 — February 2009 (1 year 1 month)

    Pay anyone, anywhere using simple SMS. PHIRE is the world's first mobile debit network enabling users to conduct transactions and perform banking functions from their handsets using text messaging.

    I worked with mobile technologies, systems and development (python, kannel).

    Website : http://www.mpowermobile.com

  • Software engineer

    Uzanto Consulting Ltd, Delhi

    (Internet industry)

    June 2007 — February 2008 (9 months)

    SlideShare (www.slideshare.net) is the world's first & largest website for the social sharing of presentations (ppt, pps, odp, pdf formats) on the web. It is popularly referred to as the "YouTube of PowerPoint" and went live in Oct'06. My responsibilities in the company used to range from developing new features like URL upload, server management to architectural decisions.

    Technologies : Ruby, RoR, FreeBSD, MySQL, Python, Open Office, PHP, apache, nginx, eclipse

    Website : http://slideshare.net

  • Research consultant

    BCore Software India Pvt. Ltd,Delhi

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

    Worked as a researcher/software developer at BCore software India Pvt. Ltd. The work was based around vision algorithms and implementation optimization.

  • Summer of code 2006

    OSDL

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

    Worked on NFSv4 testing, developed a set of scripts which was used in conjunction with NetEm (linux kernel supported network emulation) for testing. This was research oriented, and helped me understand network file-systems better. The project was completed to my mentor's satisfaction.

  • Internship

    Oracle India Pvt. Ltd,Bangalore

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2006 — July 2006 (3 months)

    Web Service PDS - The goal was to develop a plugin for Oracle Reports server using Java. I designed and implemented the plugin, which was demonstrated to the U.S headquarters and got great reviews.

  • Internship

    Tekriti Software Pvt. Ltd,Gurgaon

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2005 — July 2005 (3 months)

    Personal video recording – A PVR prototype (similar to TiVo) was developed from scratch using off-the-shelf hardware and Open source software. We used a VIA EPIA embedded board and MythTV for building a compact set-top box, the EPG was generated by crawling the Indiatimes.com TV listings.

  • Summer of code 2005

    Mozilla Corporation

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 2005 — July 2005 (4 months)

    Worked on a WYSIWYG XUL editor, took the intial codebase from chameleon. It was not completed, but was an interesting project.

Dipankar Sarkar’s Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    B.Tech , Computer science , 2003 — 2007

    B.Tech Project - Unusual Activity Recognition system
    The goal of the project was to detect any unusual human activity using video. This work on activity recognition using video and unusual activity problem was successfully demonstrated in an real-time environment.

    This project was awarded the best project at IIT Delhi's Open House 2009.

    Activities and Societies:
    ACES, Kumaon hostel

  • The Mother's International School

    High school , English,Physics,Chemistry,Maths,Computers , 2001 — 2003

    This is one of Delhi's top school and has consistently done well at the IIT and entrance exams.

    Activities and Societies:
    MINET

  • The Future Foundation School,Kolkata

    High School , 1990 — 2001

    A Sri Aurobindo ashram school, now one of the best schools in South Calcutta.

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