Developer Manager
Resume:
BRAJESHWAR OINAM
Product Manager, User Interface & Experience Designer
“I'm a product manager and team leader with a deep appreciation of
the relationship between meaningful design and powerful backend
solutions. I have been a backend developer, turned front-end
designer, with a proven track record of building products and
managing teams.”
Over my career, I have focused on 3 specific areas to develop my
overall capability:
User Interfaces & Experiences
I started my career as a developer turned designer working in the
trenches coding, understanding and promoting well-designed user
interfaces.
I'm particularly passionate about responsive interfaces, typography,
simple, clean, minimal and meaningful designs.
As an erstwhile developer, I am also sensitive to marrying great
design with powerful user experiences and backend solutions and
take a developer-first approach to delight a user by building usable
and beautiful technology.
Product Design & Development
I’ve been fortunate enough to lead and be at the fore-front of product
design and development at several startups and projects.
I’ve learnt it’s important to avoid designer hubris and focus on being
responsive to users and their needs from the ground up.
Rather than building products in an ivory tower, I prefer to work in a
lean manner and co-innovate with my user or customer base.
Team Building
My developer-designer community blog, brajeshwar.com, has
received over 7M unique visits over the last decade. I am a
community expert officially recognized by Adobe since 2003 for
evangelizing web standards worldwide.
I have learnt that team building and community building go hand in
hand.
I am able to blend this community engagement by adhering to global
standards, evangelizing my own teams, and growing them from the
community.
Work History
Owner
Mar 2003 – Present (10 years)
• Designed and developed web apps, websites and native apps for
clients such as;
• LxiDD (Singapore/India)
• The Albums (USA/Lebanon)
• TinyPitch (USA)
• Jetstay (USA/India)
• STARZ (USA)
• OBEO (USA)
• Salorix (USA/India)
• Wazaap (USA)
• Pearson Publishing (UK)
• OnMobile (India)
• ILFS (India)
• Ultrashock (USA)
• Edition Interactive (UK)
• Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (UK)
• Tata Interactive Systems (India)
• Designed and Developed few highly appreciated and commercially
successful wordpress themes;
• Nishita (2006)
• Autochrome (2011)
• Maintained a technical blog with decent traffic and loved by
audiences and readers alike at brajeshwar.com since 2001.
• Was amongst the few selected ActionScript Developer by erstwhile
Macromedia (acquired by Adobe) for the Lego Team. The Lego Team
comprised of 20 of the best Flash Developers from around the world.
• Adobe recognized Community Expert Professional since 2003.
• Graduated Startup Levoma from the Founder Institute, Silicon Valley
Chapter in Winter 2010-2011.
Levoma, Inc.
Founder, Product Designer, UI/UX Designer
Jan 2011 – Dec 2012 (2 years)
Levoma is a mobile video-dating service, helping singles aged 18-30,
find partners easily, quickly and effectively. Levoma works across and
between multiple devices - iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets.
We were the first Indian startup to be selected as part of Founder
Institute in 2010-2011 Winter Silicon Valley Chapter. Levoma was
among the final 12 graduating companies out of it’s initial cohort of
50+ startups.
Levoma released its beta app in January 2011. It was bought by
Kamelot Kapital Pte Ltd. and merged with lovinapp.com in January
2013.
• Designed and wrote the front end code for product launch.
• Worked with a team of programmers in Pune, Bangalore and Los
Angeles.
• Represented Levoma at Founders Institute, and negotiated exit with
lovinapp.com.
Infinitely Beta Pvt. Ltd.
Co-Founder, Product Designer, UI/UX Designer
Jun 2009 – Jul 2010 (1 year and 2 months)
Infinitely Beta set out to build innovative products in Pune, India. It’s
flagship product, Paisa.com, was praised by industry experts and beta
testers for its innovative User Interface and a never-before-done-in-
India User Experience.
Paisa.com was merged in February 2012 with Helpshift which has
raised venture capital from investors such as Nexus Ventures and
True Ventures.
• I designed and coded the front-end for beta launch.
• I was responsible for leading the product development and
innovation for Paisa.com.
• I bought the entire team from my previous startup and grew it into a
team of 10 people at the time I left.
oCricket
Founder, Product Designer, UI/UX Designer
Jun 2007 – May 2009 (2 years)
oCricket was poised to be a dedicated network for Cricket lovers and
fans. We envisioned oCricket to be able to get users access to Cricket
related media and content more easily and at a much affordable
price.
oCricket was acqui-hired by Infinitely Beta Pvt. Ltd. in June 2009.
• I was responsible for the architecture and design of the Product.
• I built the team, and negotiated the acqui-hire to Infinitely Beta Pvt.
Ltd.
Mixercast, Inc.
Senior Architect
Apr 2006 – Mar 2007 (1 years)
Mixercast allowed users to create embeddable slide show widgets.
Users could mix together both personal and licensed content into their
slide show.
Mixercast was funded by Fuse Capital, ONSET Ventures, and Intel
Capital for over $12M and had clients such as Youtube, CBS etc.
• I bought the entire Oinam Software team to form the initial founding
team at the Research and Development center of Mixercast in Pune
(India).
• I was responsible for hiring, business development, and evangelism.
Oinam Software Pvt. Ltd.
Founder, Client Relationship, Team Management
Apr 2005 – Mar 2006 (1 year)
At Oinam, we did extensive design and development of websites, web
applications and applications for Pocket PC Devices.
We undertook some of the most innovative, sometimes very
experimental work for clients, including but not limited to the likes of
STARZ, Obeo, Ultrashock, Edition Interactive, Cambridge University
Entrepreneurs, Tata Interactive Systems.
We also worked for many Contractors who sub-contracted their work
to us. We were in-fact one of the best ghost developers to many
successful contractors & agencies.
Oinam Software was acqui-hired by Mixercast, Inc in April 2006.
• I founded and ran Oinam as my first entrepreneurial venture.
Peerless Software Pvt. Ltd.
Designer & Developer
Nov 2001 – Feb 2003 (1 year and 4 months)
Mega Motion Pvt. Ltd.
Designer & Developer
Apr 2000 – Oct 2001 (1 year and 7 months)
D.I. Publications
Lead Visual Designer
Sep 1999 – Mar 2000 (7 months)
RECOGNITIONS
2003 – Present Adobe Community Professional
“Adobe recognized Expert Professionals with Adobe Products.”
2003 Adobe Certified Flash Professional
Community
Early on, in my professional life, I learnt that design and
development is a social activity. We’re always building on the work
of others using libraries, frameworks and runtimes that others
developed; debugging and adding on to code that others might have
written; communicating with systems someone else developed etc.
With this in mind, I’ve worked hard to learn from my peers in the
designer & developer community by sharing designs, code,
participating in discussions, and presenting at conferences:
Open Source, Forums & User Groups
• Experimented and published a bunch of open source codes,
which are still available at - downloads.brajeshwar.com.
• Regular contributor to open source projects at Github.
• Participated and helped a lot of designers and developers on
various online forums.
Presentations
• Pushing the Envelope with Flash ActionScript (April 2005)
Spoke at the “Powered by Detroit Flash and Coldfusion conference” at
the Hyatt Hotel, Detroit, USA.
• Be a Ninza CSS Coder with CSS Preprocessors (April 2012)
Hasgeek: MetaRefresh India’s leading conference on User
Interfaces.
• Introduction to Gamification for UI/UX Designs (August 2012)
SiliconIndia WebApps 2012, Bangalore, India.
Testimonials
“ Brajeshwar has demonstrated an ability to create great teams
of technical people, to pioneer interesting rich internet
applications, and to write intelligently about developments in
the technology field in a way that makes people listen.
Freeman Murray
Internet Enthusiast, Startup Guy, Investor
“ Brajeshwar believes in doing perfectly and nicely, I would say,
he is a very detailed oriented person. Someone who is great
technically and has an amazing entrepreneurial skills. We
kept talking on various things over these years and I was
always surprised with his innovative ideas.
Abdul Qabiz
Founder - IndieReign, ReelClever
“ Brajeshwar has proved to be a great asset every time our
company worked with him. He had tremendous grasp of Flash
and has turned around complex assignments in short times,
without much micro-management from our part. He has the
technical and management skills of a good partner. If you are
looking for anything (complex) in Flash, I will strongly
recommend Brajeshwar any day.
Krishna Jha
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor
“ Brajeshwar is a highly talented Flash developer and new
media expert with whom I had the pleasure to work with on
several projects. He was always very thorough, wrote some
kick-ass code and very responsive to my emails. Not only that
but he's also a genuine nice guy, very helpful and always
happy to share his efforts with others. If you're looking for a
highly skilled Flash developer with a good business sense then
you should not hesitate one minute to hire Brajeshwar.
Stefan Richter
Founder at scribblar.com
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ask if you have any specific questions.
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Brajeshwar Oinam
Bangalore (India)
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