Agile Software Innovator & Servant Leader
Nik Chanda
Technology Executive with the balanced blend of leadership excellence, technical expertise, and strategic thinking needed to build high-impact, results-oriented organizations. With a 15+ year rich tapestry of software prowess, and a decade perfecting the art of nurturing technology talent, Nik Chanda delivers innovative leadership in the high-stakes world of SaaS and beyond.
Professional Experience
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
SYNQY Corporation | Austin, TX / Pleasant Hill, CA
2012 - Present
SYNQY is an innovator in Retail Media, delivering dynamically-matched promotional video and media content to products across the retail network. Delivering 10x+ Return on Spend.
- Developed and successfully launched innovative consumer-facing web products that helped brand owners control their message across retail channels that they don't own.
- Recruited, hired, and led multiple high-performing engineering teams, and developed engineering managers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers.
- Implemented Agile, DevOps, and best practices in software engineering, improving productivity, reducing time-to-market, and improving code quality and testing.
- Used a data-driven approach to make product development and strategic decisions, leading to improved user experiences and business outcomes.
- Evolved the technology stack, tools, and procedures to solve consumer pain points and improve the overall technology infrastructure of the company.
- Opened an Austin office to optimize leadership and better manage engineering teams.
- Lead through the challenges of scaling, both in terms of user growth and team growth.
- Successfully secured funding for the startup, demonstrating the ability to sell the vision and strategy of the company to investors.
Mentor, Managing Member
Red Poppy Ventures | Georgetown, TX
2019 - Present
Red Poppy Ventures is a virtual incubator, empowering start-up businesses to meet their full potential through mentoring, investment, technology and business support.
- Developed business, gathered requirements, architected and staffed the development and delivery of over 200 enterprise and government software projects.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Sequoia Technologies | Pleasant Hill, CA / Indianapolis, IN
2010 - 2014
Sequoia Technologies built a scalable internet marketing process and platform to promote and support local Carrier Corporation affiliated HVAC Dealers throughout the country.
- Lead the development of strategic partnerships with Carrier corporation and customers, driving business growth and customer satisfaction.
- Set the technology strategy of the company, selecting the right tools, technologies, and architectures to support the company's goals.
- Invented syndication technology that grew customer base by 3,000+ B2B customers, and supported the successful recapitalization and acquisition of the company.
Director, Professional Services
Tachometry Corporation | Walnut Creek, CA
2003 - 2010
Tachometry was a boutique professional services company, providing custom enterprise integration and development for many of the most recognizable Bay Area companies.
- Developed business, gathered requirements, architected and staffed the development and delivery of over 200 enterprise and government software projects.
Education & Professional Development
Post Graduate Business Studies
Artificial Intellegence & Machine Learning
University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
(Expected May 2024)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
Issued: June 2023 - Valid Through: June 2026
Certified ScrumMaster®
ScrumAlliance
Issued: May 2023 - Valid Through: May 2025
MGR360 Management Certification
MGR360
Issued: December 2020 - No Expiration
Capital Access Series PerfectPitch™
e2i.Academy / Keiretsu Forum Academy
Issued: June 2012 - No Expiration
Bachelor of Arts
Communication Studies
California State University, Northridge
May 2000
Skills, Tools & Technologies
Skills Summary
Strategic Technology Leadership
Spearheading technological strategy and vision, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and innovative customer solutions.
High-Impact Global Team Development
Recruiting, developing, and leading high-performing global engineering teams and management personnel, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.
Agile Engineering &
DevOps Expertise
Implementing and optimizing Agile Engineering and DevOps practices, significantly enhancing product quality, team productivity, and time-to-market efficiency.
Consumer-Centric
Product Development
Steering the development of innovative consumer-focused products, leveraging a data-informed approach to enhance user experiences and generate positive business outcomes.
Digital Transformation &
Adaptive Technology
Evolving technology stacks, tools, and procedures to address consumer pain points, ensuring continuous improvement of the overall technology infrastructure.
Strategic Partnership Development
Establishing and nurturing strategic partnerships, fostering synergies that drive business growth, customer satisfaction, and market expansion.
Tools & Technologies
Agile / Scrum
Continuous Integration & Deployment
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node
React
Docker
Microservices
AWS
GCP
SQL
NoSQL
React Native
Git / Version Control
JIRA/Asana
Build Tools
HTML/ CSS
Patents & Recognition
US Software Utility Patents
Method and system for managing content of digital brand assets on the internet
This patent provides a new digital system that helps brand owners easily create, control, and share smart brand assets on different websites, while also allowing brand partners to modify these assets to meet their specific needs, ensuring that the brand is presented effectively and appropriately online.
Method and system for deploying arrangements of payloads based upon engagement of website visitors
This patent presents a digital system that lets brand owners easily create, manage, and analyze online brand content, while also smartly adjusting where and how it’s shown on various websites based on numerous factors like user behavior and location. Essentially, it ensures that the brand materials are not only shared broadly online but are also displayed in a way that best fits each platform and audience.
Method and system for increasing visibility of digital brand assets
This patent presents a new digital system that helps distribute brand assets online and improves how they interact with search engines by using a unique tag for each asset. In simple terms, when a search engine tries to explore (or "crawl") a web page with a brand asset, the system directs that exploration to a special server, ensuring the asset’s details (like location or user-related data) help it get properly listed in search engine results.
Method and system for updating the presentation of digital brand assets
The patent brings innovation by introducing a digital brand asset system that not only disseminates smart brand assets to numerous web servers but also monitors interactions with those assets on the servers to generate performance reports for brand owners. Significantly, it takes a step further by utilizing the raw data from these reports to autonomically and dynamically modify the content based on feedback interpretation, ensuring the smart brand assets are continuously optimized and relevant in various digital environments.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEPLOYING ARRANGEMENTS OF PAYLOADS BASED UPON ENGAGEMENT OF WEBSITE VISITORS
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Method and system for deploying arrangements of payloads based upon engagement of website visitors
This patent offers a special digital system that helps brand owners easily manage their smart brand assets on different websites. It lets owners not only create and share these assets but also control how they appear based on different factors like past click rates and shopper behaviors, ensuring the brand is shown in a strategic, tailored way online.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CONTENT OF DIGITAL BRAND ASSETS ON THE INTERNET
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Method and system for managing content of digital brand assets on the internet
This patent introduces a digital system that gives brand owners strong control over making, managing, and tracking their smart brand assets on different websites. It helps centrally manage content, allows brand partners to adjust the content as needed, and makes sure the brand is consistently yet flexibly represented across various online platforms.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING VISIBILITY OF DIGITAL BRAND ASSETS
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING THE PRESENTATION OF DIGITAL BRAND ASSETS
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Method and system for dynamic online digital brand assets
The patent talks about a new digital system that helps brand owners create, manage, and make sure their brand content is shown properly on different websites by using certain guidelines. It has a smart feature where each piece of brand content has a special ID that search engines can recognize and list, and it can watch how users interact with the content to create reports. These reports help brand owners see how well their content is doing on different websites, combining creation, control, and analyzing how effective it is into one easy-to-use system.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEPLOYING ARRANGEMENTS OF PAYLOADS BASED UPON ENGAGEMENT OF WEBSITE VISITORS
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Method and system for the distribution, maintenance, management, merchandising and analysis of digital brand assets on the internet
This patent introduces a digital system that lets brand owners make, control, and share smart brand content on different websites, and it cleverly adjusts the content based on things like past click rates, shopper behaviors, and website locations. Essentially, it ensures that the digital brand content is not only shared but also smartly changed and shown in a way that’s most effective and targeted across the internet.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC ONLINE DIGITAL BRAND ASSETS
The innovative aspects of this patent revolve around a digital brand asset system that provides brand owners with extensive capabilities to manage and analyze smart brand assets across various websites. The system enables brand owners to dictate how these assets are presented by specifying brand guidelines tailored to different online environments. Notably, it incorporates unique identifications for smart brand assets, which facilitate their indexing by search engine crawlers, enhancing SEO efforts. Furthermore, the system monitors interaction between website visitors and the smart brand assets, allowing it to generate reports that help brand owners assess the effectiveness of their assets across different website servers, thereby providing insights and data for optimizing digital brand management.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE DISTRIBUTION, MAINTENANCE, MANAGEMENT, MERCHANDISING AND ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL BRAND ASSETS ON THE INTERNET
This patent introduces an innovative digital brand asset system that provides brand owners comprehensive control and intelligent distribution of smart brand assets across various websites. The system centralizes the creation, management, and analysis of these assets through a single server, allowing content and presentation to adapt based on factors like previous click-through rates and aggregated shopper behaviors, thus ensuring a tailored online brand presence. It promotes strategic, data-informed asset distribution and allows for modifications according to the type and status of websites, enhancing brand visibility and consistency across multiple digital platforms while accommodating varied, specific needs and preventing display on blacklisted websites.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CONTENT OF DIGITAL BRAND ASSETS ON THE INTERNET
This patent introduces a simple online system that helps brand owners make, manage, and control their digital brand content across different websites using one main server. Brand partners can also easily change the content to meet their needs, making sharing and controlling brand information straightforward and unified across the internet.
References & Recommendations
" Nik is an expert in what he does. He was always very meticulously prepared, poised and professional. There were times requiring of him to train me to use the new system from the simplest steps, he was consistently responsive and patient with me and all my questions. It was a pleasure working with Nik. "
" Nik always provides great service, creative solutions, and a 'get-er-done' attitude. He has gone above and beyond the call on consistently to get the job done right. There are few people that would trust with my client list, and know that they will be dealt with respectfully and professionally. Nik tops that list. "
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