Ashish Koshy
Software Engineer
@H & R Block
A full stack software engineer with more than 5 years of experience in building web applications using - Angular, NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, MySQL, SQLite, PHP, and .Net across: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.
Spruce Money
Lead the front end team to deliver Spruce Money, a mobile banking platform to help you set saving goals, earn cash back offers, and get paychecks up to two days early.
Ionic
Angular
Lead the effort and initiative towards setting up Spruce as a continuousy delivered product through automation and dark launching.
Block Sign
Azure Signal-R Angular
Spearheaded the Block Sign initiative to deliver a Progressive Web Application that uses socket streams to render PDF documents and capture signatures on them. It uses the concept of bezier curves to render ultra smooth signatures and is currently being used in 100s of tax offices across the world.
This application is used on tablet devices which have a limited amount of memory available to render high quality PDF documents. This effort also helped me towards creating a highly memory efficient PDF viewer to be able to render large PDF documents on mobile devices which did not exist at the time. Github
Zeus
Electron
Node Angular
Created Zeus as a free to use, retail pharmacy management suite for small scale pharmacists in my city to help them conduct their business without having to subscribe to expensive services. It was built using Electron JS with Angular as an interface. It uses SQLite3 for data persistence. Zeus is also fully capable of recieving periodic updates from a release server.
Awards and Recognitions
About Me
My journey in technology began back in late 2015. Fresh out of college with my Bachelor's degree in Applied Computer Science, I never found myself being tempted to tread the usual path of finding a job and getting settled. Instead, I went around my own city to look for problems I could solve using technology.
The connections I forged helped me pursue my learning path as a freelance technology consultant. I began by working with a few local businesses helping setup their computers and maintaining their networks. Soon after, I developed an interest in web server technologies like .net, PHP and NodeJS.
Here at H & R Block, I have always felt at home, and it has been helping me grow and learn things that I am deeply passionate about.
Two things in this world that I cannot live without are: my workstation and my beloved dog Ronny. I am also a PC hardware enthusiast and I love building PCs!
