Portfolio and personal site of India-based software engineer Nabanita Sarkar

Over the course of last almost 5 years I have come to explore various facets of software engineering. Starting from gathering and clarifying customer requirements to shipping final product to debugging production issues at 3am at night.

The journey started back in 2021 with TEAL India, a Bangalore-based startup dealing with property due dilligence in india. For the first year as they were still figuring out product market fit, I worked on building a lot of POC; sometimes I would be making end-to-end chart-heavy dashboards with Next.js, sometimes I would be writing aggregation pipelines in MongoDB to do some batch exports to do data analysis or sometimes tinkering with SQL queries to unclog PostgreSQL performance.

The next year as the main customer facing product took shape, I got to take charge of the internal backbone application which were being used by the operations team. This internal application, fondly given the title "Terminal", was a legacy Django backend + React class component based frontend application. My job was to ship new features and/or modules (both backend and frontend) and keep an eye at the AWS deployments, so that uptime never goes below 98%.

Obviously, that year I built various features for the main customer facing product as well. The most notable one was building an intuitive experience for the legal team. I went on to interview bunch of people from the team, iterated a few times, to finally come to the conclusion of building rich text editor with custom templates and variables tailored to their criterion, so that they can feel right at home, coming from their existing MS Word workflow. I picked up Slate JS as my main tool, because while researching this arena of building WYSIWYG editors, I came to know about the plethora of browser inconsistensies of contenteditable and pain of maintaining focus and selections.

Next I joined Mind Webs Ventures and Frontend Lead and co-founded Laminar Stream Innovations Pvt. Ltd. [Well Laminar Stream Innovations went on to become the private limited entity behind the brand name of Mind Webs Ventures].

Here I was buildind new products from scratch. While some were stealth ones, one among those gained traction. For this one, on one hand I was maintaining the frontend and expanding for new userbase, on the other hand I was developing new features on the backend as well.

Now coming to Mind Webs' Hero Product - DataSense, someday I was building geo-spatial data visualisation, some other day I was architecting frontend for the first production grade module. Lots of late evenings went on to finalise and re-iterate user flows for smoothest possible web experience. Some other times, I was dealing with deployment mishaps or sudden surge or usage. Alongside all these, new team building, hiring, mentoring, bringing them upto speed most quickly went on.

As of March 2026, I left Mind Webs Ventures. The company continues to do well. However now I am looking for new opportunity to bring my experience to a new team.