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About

My name is Amogh. I live in New York City. My hobbies include pickleball, running, smart home automation, and singing in a choir.

I started my career as a sales development rep and a solutions engineer. Most recently, I founded and ran a recruiting agency which tech screened software engineers before introducing them to companies.

I've spent most of my career as a software engineer and am seeking a new role. I'm interested in a founding engineer roles at Seed stage or Series A companies in NYC (in office preferred), but open to chatting with any company that wants to get in touch: hireme[at]amoghk.com

Read my hot takes about engineering hiring and evaluation, building in public, and dating. Or see my LinkedIn for more lukewarm takes. You can check out my GitHub but most of my new projects are in private repos.

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Netflix Swipe

Netflix Swipe is a Bumble clone that helps you discover new content on Netflix and determine what to watch with friends. The idea was based on this tweet.

This app started as a two hour build challenge that I iterated on over several months. I also experimented with buying ads to drive traffic and adoption. Lesson learned: just because an app idea goes viral, doesn't mean it is a sticky product.

Live App

Dateforce

Dateforce is a ~~CRM~~ DRM system; the D stands for dating. This app was both a joke and something I wanted to use myself. I bought ads and immediately went viral. I was tech twitter's topic of conversation for a few days. I was even interviewed by Bloomberg News!*

Version 1 was a desktop web app with React, Node, Express, and Firestore. This allowed me to ship quickly but was unsustainable for long-term development.

Version 2 was rebuilt properly as a mobile app. I used React Native, a GraphQL server (Relay and Pothos), and Postgres with a Prisma ORM.

With version 1, I learned not to build features until I verified if users wanted them. I implemented a share feature that added a ton of technical complexity and slowed down development. I was also worried about bad actors, so I implemented rate limiting, which failed spectacularly when the app went viral.**

After version 2, I learned the importance of domain research and finding product market fit. After reading many dating books and speaking with people who already tracked their dating life with spreadsheets, I felt my app would encourage users to be hyperanalytical with their dating lives; a common anti-pattern. I still maintain the app for a few users but decided not to develop it further.

Website

*There were bigger tech stories that came out around that time and Bloomberg never finished publishing my story. All for the best.

**The rate limiting logic lived in the server code. I had deployed on GCP Cloud Run, so whatever proxy server was forwarding traffic to each container had the same IP address.

Eng Hiring

At Square, I was deeply involved in software engineering interviewing and wanted to apply that expertise independently. I initially pursued consulting before pivoting to a recruiting agency that tech-screened software engineers, similar to Triplebyte.

I bootstrapped the company as a solo founder and hired one recruiter. After six months supporting several clients, it became clear that building a successful recruiting agency was largely disconnected from my original mission of improving software engineer hiring. I decided to return to software engineering, the work I find most compelling.

For this business, I built a custom applicant tracking system tailored to my prescreening process. It supported distinct user types of companies, candidates, and admins; each with their own access controls and visibility. I built a resume redaction tool which let me share strong candidates with prospective clients.

Open Source

DependenTree is a graph visualization library. It can visualize dependency graphs at scale in a collapsible tree format.

Blog GitHub Repo Live Playground

Server-To-Server Google Tag Manager Client is middleware for Server-Side Google Tag Manager. Handles network request, errors and enables security options.

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Hello!Welcome to my website

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Hello!Welcome to my website

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