Gobi D
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Engineering Manager and PM Preferred Title
$98.75 /hr $ 197.5K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History - Worksession Approval 100.0%
- Average Response Time 3.1 hours
- Average Count of Messages/Day 9.4
- Project Completion Rate 2/4
- Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
- Timezone Overlap 20h PST, 8h UTC
- Projects Worked in Last 2 Weeks 2
- Hours Worked in Last 2 Weeks 14.5
- Earned Hours 222.00
- Code Quality 60%
- Soft Skill Attributes 60%
- Expertise 2/3
- Coding Challenges 60%
- No. of Lifelong Learning Projects 2
- No. of Coding Challenges Completed 2 More details
- Desktop Mac
- Phone Android
- Tablet iPad
- Member Since Jan 20, 2023
- Profile Last Updated Aug 31, 2023
- Last Activity Sept. 30, 2023, 12:33 a.m. UTC
- Location United States of America
Profile Summary
Hi I'm Gobi. My skills include management, startups, full stack dev, HCI / ICT4D, AI / ML, and travel (40 countries, 40 states, and counting). I finished Stanford CS in two years to be a digital nomad. Then I did my masters in HCI+AI at Stanford. My PhD from Northwestern is in CS Education. All this inspired me to found LD Talent. I help LD's clients plan, hire for, manage, and QA their projects, working with talent in the $20-30/h range. With me, you'll get high quality at a reasonable cost.
Skills
Total Experience: 13 years
jQuery (3E, 9Y)
3 experiences, across 9 yearsCSS (4E, 9Y)
4 experiences, across 9 yearsJavaScript (4E, 9Y)
4 experiences, across 9 yearsDjango (2E, 8Y)
2 experiences, across 8 yearsProduct Management (2E, 5Y)
2 experiences, across 5 yearsSlack API (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsDevOps (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsAWS Elastic Beanstalk (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsSEO (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsPython (3E, 5Y)
3 experiences, across 5 yearsUX Design (1E, 5Y)
1 experience, across 5 yearsPHP (2E, 4Y)
2 experiences, across 4 yearsWordpress (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsHIPAA Cloud Compliance (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsArtificial intelligence (1E, 2Y)
1 experience, across 2 yearsFacebook API (3E, 2Y)
3 experiences, across 2 yearsHTML (2E, 2Y)
2 experiences, across 2 yearsMySQL (1E, 1Y)
1 experience, 1 yearJava (2E, 1Y)
2 experiences, 1 yearC++ (2E, 1Y)
2 experiences, 1 yearFlutter (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearFirebase Storage (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearFirebase (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearJIRA (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearQuality Assurance QA (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearProduct Lifecycle Management (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearWeb scrapers (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearData Science (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearTelescope (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearIntroductory Astronomy (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearTwitter APIs (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearAdobe Illustrator (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a yearData Analytics (1E, < 1Y)
1 experience, less than a year
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 20h PST, 8h UTC
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
UTC
20 - 23
20 - 23
20 - 23
20 - 23
19 - 23
19 - 23
PST
13 - 16
13 - 16
13 - 16
13 - 16
12 - 16
12 - 16
Vetting
- Interview Data
- Agile Development Process
- Productivity and Responsiveness
- Teamwork
- Software Engineering
- Logical Thinking
- Technical Strength
- Intellectual Merit
- English Communication
- Documentation
- System Design
- Coding Challenges60%
- Algorithms Score60%
- General Score60%
- Easy Algorithm
- Correctness60%
- Performance60%
- Medium Algorithm
- Correctness60%
- Performance60%
- Hard Algorithm
- Correctness60%
- Performance60%
- Expertise2/3
- Design Patterns and Architectures2/3
- Debugging2/3
- Stack Traces2/3
- Testing2/3
- System Administration2/3
- Soft Skill Attributes60%
- Entrepreneurial60%
- Whole Brained60%
- Divergent Thinking / Creativity60%
- Design Ability60%
- Empathy60%
- Project Management Ability60%
- Security60%
- Code Quality60%
- Complex Logic60%
- Models60%
- Controllers60%
- Templates60%
- APIs60%
- Training/Testing Data Models60%
- Code Readability60%
- Ongoing Evaluation
- Number of Lifelong Learning Project2
- Number of Coding Challenge Completed3
Experience
PhD Researcher
Employment
Sep 2018 - Present
Northwestern University Company
Education Industry
Project: CS Education Research
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Python
- Doing work in CS Education at the intersection of the Learning Sciences and Computer Science. Mentoring 10+ undergraduate Computer Science students.
- Domains include Javascript value transformations, Python design patterns, and granular CSS techniques.
- Member of the Delta Lab at Northwestern: delta.northwestern.edu/People. Advised by Haoqi Zhang and Eleanor O'Rourke.
- Member of the DTR Research Communication: dtr.northwestern.edu/people. Featured first in DTR Documentary: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zsexnatf6pcrc4j/DTR_Story_v7.mp4?dl=0
- Researching and building tools that help novice and intermediate software engineers learn about design patterns and architectures from studying professional code (i.e. on github).
Website Links
- http://delta.northwestern.edu/People
- http://dtr.northwestern.edu/people
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/zsexnatf6pcrc4j/DTR_Story_v7.mp4?dl=0
- https://github.com/gobid/gdasu-hci-research
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3334480.3381444
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491101.3516814
- https://github.com/ld-rale/rale-modules
- https://github.com/gobid/scaffolded-exercises
- https://github.com/gobid/scaffolded-exercises-interface
- https://github.com/gobid/km-css-techniques
Founder & CEO
Employment
May 2018 - Present
LD Talent Company
Technology Industry
Project: Wholistic
- Product Management
- jQuery
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- DevOps
- Slack API
- SEO
- Django
- Developed pre-cursor ideas: A PhoneGap jQuery Mobile app to teach English with celebrity pictures. A Python AST parser to automate code quality analysis. Automated education modules using REST APIs.
- Did market research around digital products and services and pivoted the company to a talent network model. Developed rule-based matching algorithms (with some machine learning) and vetting modules.
- Did Product Management of the Django + jQuery app, integrated Slack API, hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, SEO optimized. Coded / merged PRs. Setup DevOps / CI. Organized a fully distributed team.
- Setup Marketing (designing free trials, cross platform templates, and drip / influencer marketing), Sales & Customer Support (developing playbooks), and Finance & Operations, HR (learning incentives).
- Branding and design work around mission, motto, vision ideation, swag distribution, culture development. Created LD Ventures to help majority world entrepreneurs target US markets. Design iteration.
Website Links
- http://ldtalentwork.com
- https://blog.learningdollars.com/
- https://blog.learningdollars.com/2019/11/17/how-to-end-world-poverty-and-racial-power-imbalance-in-1-generation/
- https://blog.learningdollars.com/2020/02/24/how-ld-talent-got-listed-as-a-resource-for-portfolio-companies-of-yc-techstars-pear-a16z-and-12-other-funds-we-just-asked/
- https://blog.learningdollars.com/2020/03/31/developer-time-tracking-using-slack-beyond-fixed-price-vs-hourly/
- https://blog.learningdollars.com/2020/04/17/100-remote-startup-mantras/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKI3Z_aYSIm5PNwT0nqqNNQ/
- http://wefunder.com/ldtalentwork
Resource Provider
Contract
Jan 2019 - Present
Teams at Infosys Inc. Company
Technology Industry
Project: Infosys Teams
- UX Design
- Recommended relevant talent and hiring strategies to Infosys (esp. for building a journey maps product). The company is and has been an important client of LD Talent.
- Multiple teams at Infosys have used LD Talent to hire for UX Design, Natural Language Processing, and D3.js work.
Resource Provider
Contract
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Baidu Inc. Company
Technology Industry
Project: Baidu Ventures
- Data Science
- Web scrapers
- Baidu became a client of LD Talent. Advised Baidu on how to approach web crawling of JS heavy sites. Also helped them find and hire relevant engineers.
- LD engineers built web scrapers and did data science for Baidu Ventures.
Teaching Assistant
Employment
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Stanford University Company
Education Industry
Project: TA for AI, Probability, CS Theory
- Artificial intelligence
- CS 221 Artificial Intelligence Course Assistant
- CS 109 Computer Science Probability Course Assistant
- CS 103 Mathematical Foundations of Computing Course Assistant
- Held office hours and graded assignments. Scaffolded learners as needed. Received positive ratings for providing appropriate scaffolding and presenting material step by step.
- Created some assignments / projects for CS 109. Taught sections for CS 109. Learned from feedback on preparation and presentation.
Digital Nomad / Traveler / Hosteller
Contract
Jun 2014 - Sep 2016
Digital Nomad Company
Travel Industry
Project: Various Consulting Projects
- jQuery
- HIPAA Cloud Compliance
- JavaScript
- Wordpress
- CSS
- PHP
- Django
- I ran a software consultancy and worked remotely with 14 clients during this time.
- I built web apps like a job portal for designers, political and religious opinion platforms, a tool for recommending extra curricular activities for college applications, and a health data aggregator.
- I built mobile applications in the domains of automobile safety and live video streaming. The health related projects involved studying the AWS HIPAA Cloud Compliance white paper.
- I used Django, Django REST Framework, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, and Wordpress to achieve the above features.
Tutor
Contract
Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
Cardinal Scholars (acquired by Course Hero) Company
Education Industry
Project: AP Subjects Tutor
- C++
- Java
- During my time with Cardinal Scholars, I tutored ~10 High School students on their schoolwork as well as their Test Prep Curriculum.
- I tutored AP Physics, AP Calculus, AP Computer Science, English as a second language, SAT prep, and Computer Proficiency.
- For some of my computer science students, I designed problems that they could solve using a Java or C++.
Software Engineer
Internship
Jul 2012 - Sep 2012
Hitpost Inc. Company
Sports Industry
Project: OnSports
- HTML
- Adobe Illustrator
- CSS
- Facebook API
- At Hitpost (Acquired by Yahoo!), I built the landing page for the bet-on-sports iOS app then known as OnSports.
- I translated Adobe Illustrator mock-ups into HTML and CSS.
- The landing page involved simulations of dynamically increasing bet scores for live games.
- In addition at Hitpost, I provided implementation strategies of various Facebook APIs by referring to work I did on my own project War of Word.
Software Developer
Contract
May 2012 - Jul 2012
Dygest Inc. Company
Politics Industry
Project: Scoople
- Twitter APIs
- Facebook API
- At Dygest, I helped market the iOS app Scoople which polls people on what they think other people think about contemporary issues.
- I built a flash application for Facebook Feed Gaming (some Facebook API usage).
- I helped grow the Scoople Twitter following using computerized marketing techniques (some direct / indirect usage of Twitter APIs).
Full Stack Developer
Passion Project
Mar 2011 - Jun 2012
War of Word Company
Politics Industry
Project: Webmaster
- HTML
- jQuery
- JavaScript
- Facebook API
- MySQL
- CSS
- PHP
- I came up with the idea of War of Word while helping plan a Junior States of America convention.
- I noticed that many delegates had issues attending because of convention costs and transportation issues.
- For this reason, I designed a virtual and never-ending debate convention where delegates can craft, vote on, and debate resolutions without ever leaving their homes.
- My goal was to promote democracy by encouraging people to practice it every day.
- I wrote the frontend in HTML, CSS, Javascript, and jQuery, and I wrote the backend in PHP, MySQL (with PHPMyAdmin), integrating with the Facebook API for login.
Software Engineer
Internship
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
UC Santa Cruz Company
Education Industry
Project: Astrophysics Intern
- Telescope
- Java
- Data Analytics
- Introductory Astronomy
- C++
- I worked with Prof Gregory Laughlin on a brown dwarf search which led to the Intel STS Paper Discovery of 16 Nearby Brown Dwarf Candidates in WISE Telescope Preliminary Release Data.
- We reported a discovery of sixteen nearby brown dwarf candidates and seven temperature-specific (200 K - 500 K) populations (102 sources) in the WISE Preliminary Release Data.
- Leveraged Monte Carlo simulations and wrote code in C++ and Java to parse astronomical FITS files.
- Used Data Analytics techniques like Regression in Mathematica and Logger Pro. Learned about planets, stars, and Introductory Astronomy concepts.
LD Experience
Client Projects
Developer
Contract
May 2023 - Present
We Are Tastebuds LLC Client's Company/Project
Project: WeAreTastebudsLLC
- Product Management
- Flutter
- JIRA
- Firebase Storage
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Quality Assurance QA
- Firebase
- Did Product Management work to prioritize features for the WeAreTastebuds restaurant referral app. Day to day involves requesting and evaluating time estimates, working in Jira, Slack, and Github.
- Quality Assurance QA tested, assigned, reviewed, and merged Flutter and Firebase (including Firebase Storage) work as part of the Product Lifecycle Management.
Developer
Contract
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Doornox Client's Company/Project
- Python
- Built out the backend in Python for a platform for hiring designers.
- Also built out the frontend in jQuery, Bootstrap, and HTML.
Developer
Contract
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
ClemsonOrange Client's Company/Project
- JavaScript
- Python
- Provided advice on writing a python and Javascript script for a web application.
- The application was focused on supporting Clemson University's sports program.
Coding Challenges
Skill:
- jQuery
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Django
- Product Management
- Slack API
- DevOps
Basic
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Basic
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Basic
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Video Projects
How to implement django-tenant-schemas with a fixed URL
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Frontend Developer
Technology
- jQuery
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Django
- Product Management
- Slack API
- DevOps
- Led user research for a new construction site documentation tool.
- Hosted workshops to synthesize user insights into design requirements.
- Designed 3D concepts and built prototypes to investigate new tool form factors.
- Researched existing digital solutions and prioritized key features for app release.
LD Ventures
Thea
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Frontend Developer
Technology
- jQuery
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Django
- Product Management
- Slack API
- DevOps
- I used the Django Rest Framework to create a multi tenant API with the aid of the django-tenant-schemas package.
- I used the Postgres Database as the persistence layer and specifically the PostgreSQL Schemas to ensure that all tenants using the API had their data.
- I used the REST architecture in designing my API.
- Researched existing digital solutions and prioritized key features for app release.
Qualifications
Education
Challenger School
Sep 1999 - Jun 2008
Primary School
Northwestern University (3.9 GPA)
Sep 2018 - Jun 2023
PhD (CS Education Research)
Stanford University (3.9 GPA)
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
MS (Computer Science)
Stanford University (3.9 GPA)
Sep 2012 - Jun 2014
BS (Computer Science)
Harker School (Cum Laude)
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Secondary School
Courses
Scaling Up Excellence
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Book
- Product Management
Innovators Dilemma
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Book
- UX Design
How Learning Works
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Book
- UX Research
Qualitative Research Methods
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Survey of Literature
- UX Research
World Architecture
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Book
- Material Design
Branding
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Hubspot Tutorials
- UI Design
CS Education Research Seminar (Nell O'Rourke)
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Northwestern University
- JavaScript
Communicating Your Research (Liz Gerber, Steven Franconeri)
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Northwestern
- UI Design
Knowledge Representation I (Bruce Sherin)
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Northwestern
- Rust
Education Technology (Uri WIlensky)
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Northwestern
- UX Design
Deep Learning (Andrew Ng)
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Stanford
- Deep learning
Reinforcement Learning (Emma Brunskill)
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Stanford
- Reinforcement learning
HCI Research (Michael Bernstein)
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Stanford
- Affinity Design
Design of Learning Environments (Nichole Pinkard)
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Northwestern
- Interaction Design
Data Mining
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Stanford
- Data mining
Experimental Methods in Psychology (Michael Frank)
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Stanford
- Power BI
- R for Statistics
Convolutional Neural Networks (Fei-fei Li)
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Stanford
- Deep learning
- Computer vision
Probabilistic Graphical Models (Stefano Ermon)
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Stanford
- Probabilistic graphical models
Crash Course Astronomy
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Youtube
- Python
Linear Algebra (Proof-based)
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Stanford
- Machine learning
Robotics, including Mindstorms Practical [Certificate: bit.ly/3lebtNc]
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Queensland University of Technology
- Robotics
A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Indian School of Business (ISB)
- UX Design
Negotiation
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
University of Michigan
- UX Research
AWS EdX Entrepreneurship 101
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
MIT
- Affinity Design
AWS EdX Entrepreneurship 102
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
MIT
- Affinity Design
User Innovation
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
MIT
- Affinity Design
Combinatorics (Angela Hicks, Proof-based)
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Stanford
- Python
Data Mining (Jerome Friedman)
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Stanford
- Data mining
Engineering for Good (My T. Le)
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Stanford
- Woocommerce
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (Toby Corey, Ravi Belani)
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Stanford
- UX Design
Human Computer Interaction (Michael Bernstein)
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
Stanford
- UI Design
Computer Science Writing and Ethics
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
Stanford
- UX Research
Central Asian Films (Alma Kunanbaeva)
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
Stanford
- UI Design
Energy (Thomas F. Jaramillo)
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
Stanford
- AutoCAD
Machine Learning (Andrew Ng)
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Stanford
- Machine learning
Natural Language Processing (Chris Manning)
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Stanford
- Natural language processing
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (Toby Corey)
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Stanford
- UX Design
Electronics
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Stanford
- Electronic Health Records
Artificial Intelligence (Chris Piech)
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Stanford
- Artificial intelligence
Algorithms (Keith Schwarz)
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Stanford
- JavaScript
Computer Graphics (Sergey Levine)
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Stanford
- Graphic Design
Computer Systems (Jerry Cain)
Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
Stanford
- Computer vision
Probability in Computer Science (Mehran Sahami)
Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
Stanford
- Probabilistic graphical models
The Water Course (Rosemary Knight)
Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
Stanford
- AutoCAD
Robotics (Oussama Khatib)
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Stanford
- Robotics
Theory of Computation (Keith Schwarz)
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Stanford
- Computational Linguistics
Computer Architecture - Organization and Systems (Jerry Cain)
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Stanford
- Serverless Architecture
Anthropology of South Asia (Thomas Hansen)
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Stanford
- UX Research
Programming Abstractions (Jerry Cain)
Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
Stanford
- C++
Design Technology Research (Haoqi Zhang)
Sep 2018 - Jun 2023
Northwestern
- UX Design
Light and Heat - Thermodynamics (Giorgio Gratta)
Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
Stanford
- Unity Augmented Reality Design and Development
Linear Algebra
Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
Stanford
- Artificial intelligence
Political Science Justice & Ethics (Alison Anoll, Kristi Olson)
Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
Stanford
- Artificial intelligence
AP Calculus BC (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2009 - Jun 2010
The Harker School
- Medical Devices
AP English (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
The Harker School
- Natural language processing
AP French (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
The Harker School
- Natural language processing
AP Computer Science (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
The Harker School
- Computer vision
AP Physics C - Mechanics (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2010 - Jun 2011
The Harker School
- Robotics
AP Physics C - E&M (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2010 - Jun 2011
The Harker School
- Medical Devices
AP US History (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2010 - Jun 2011
The Harker School
- Robotics
AP Biology (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2010 - Jun 2011
The Harker School
- Medical Devices
AP Physics B (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2009 - Jun 2010
The Harker School
- Medical Devices
AP European History (5/5 on Exam)
Sep 2009 - Jun 2010
The Harker School
- Natural language processing
Good Strategy / Bad Strategy
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Book
- Affinity Design
The Decision Book
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Book
- UX Design
The Lean Startup
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Book
- UX Design
Four Steps to an Epiphany
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Book
- UX Design
Organizational Culture and Leadership: artifacts, values, assumptions, talents' needs, autonomy, creativity, purpose
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Book
- Affinity Design
Rewire your OCD Brain
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Book
- UX Design
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Book
- UX Design
The Brain Fog Fix
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Book
- UX Design
Introductory Psychiatry: completed # exercises
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Book
- UX Design