Ashis Laha
Founder at Drividend
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshis Laha is a founder and senior software engineer with nine years of experience building consumer and enterprise iOS products and scalable backend services, currently owning messaging features for Microsoft Teams and driving CarPlay integration. He combines deep mobile expertise—Swift/Objective-C, ARKit, CoreML, FaceID/TouchID—and frontend React Native with backend Node.js, PostgreSQL/MongoDB, CI/CD and cloud deployment. A hands-on ML practitioner (TensorFlow, Keras) who completed a masters in AI/ML, he also builds NLP systems with Dialogflow and has contributed widely to iOS open-source projects on GitHub. Ashis founded Ashis Academy to mentor middle-school STEM students and co-founded Drividend, reflecting a blend of product, education, and entrepreneurial drive. Known for optimizing message performance at scale and shipping cross-platform experiences (Walmart Mexico, Ola), he brings a pragmatic focus on telemetry-driven improvements and real-world user impact. Based in Redmond, he pairs research-informed ML skills with production-grade engineering at Microsoft.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS MSAI, Master of Science - MS MSAI at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at Jadavpur University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
2,246reputation
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34answers
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android
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rest
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firebase
top-1%
Github Skills (40)
push-notifications10
google-map10
google-maps10
firebase10
appkit9
convolutional-neural-networks9
language-processing9
navigation-path9
opencv9
static-library9
rest9
android9
keras9
backend9
machine-learning8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ashislaha/NLP-based-Store-assistant-with-AR
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Let's create a generic template how AR(Augmented Reality) and NLP(Natural Language Processing) can be applied to Retail market to leverage the maximum benefits to customer like Offers, finding items in your shopping list, creating the shopping list using NLP based system, getting offers from assistant, showing the navigation path in AR etc
Contributions:16 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
language-processingnatural-language-processingnavigation-path
ashislaha/DS-ALGO-in-swift
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:53 commits, 109 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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