About

Gautam Chandra Nadakuditi is a seasoned product maker with over 13 years of experience in building and launching various products. He has a proven track record of building outstanding teams, creating unique products, and receiving accolades from numerous founders. Currently, Gautam is working as a Software Development Engineer V at Tophatter, where he is responsible for building products. Gautam's career journey began with co-founding a tech company, where he built Indic Crosswords, a mobile app to play crosswords in Indian languages. He built the end-to-end product using Ruby on Rails and react-native and worked with designers and content creators to publish daily crosswords in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada languages. The app currently has 1700+ monthly active users, and Gautam is working to publish daily crosswords in Hindi and English as well. Gautam has also worked as an independent consultant, where he played a crucial role in building the in-house ruby on rails team at Thrillophilia. He integrated several tools that improved the monitoring and performance management of the system and identified resource-intensive components of the system, fixed them, thereby enabling the same footprint of hardware to support more than 2x the traffic. He also deep-dived into the AWS billing, proposed and executed solutions that cut the cost of AWS by more than 1000$ / month. Gautam's educational background includes a BTech degree in Electronics and Communication from the International Institute of Information Technology. He possesses a diverse tech stack, including Software Engineer, Ruby, Mobile, Javascript, Redux, Web, Senior Software Engineer, Elastic Search, Search, Frontend, React Native, Redis, Typescript, PHP, and MySQL. Gautam prefers working for small to mid-sized companies looking for highly efficient and independent leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset. With 14.78 years of relevant experience, Gautam is a valuable asset to any team looking to build and launch innovative products.