Shashank Chiranewala’s Post

Super excited to have you on board Balaji! I am sure you will make an awesome addition to the team. PS Balaji is hiring! and so are we across the board for engineering- all levels, please reach out!

Formloge is growing fast! We are building awesome software that will have a profound impact at scale for people across the globe. I am actively looking for awesome founding engineers to join the growing team (of 10 people). For all the awesome full stack SWE's in my network, if you are looking to escape your FAANG grind- holler! PS if you have a referral I'll take one :)

Hello, forms! Exciting opportunity to lead the roadmap and implementation. Work with some of the best senior engineers on an awesome product.

We are still #hiring! Know anyone who might be interested? great opportunity to get in an early stage and drive key decisions on an exciting roadmap. No agencies please.

The sweet sweet sound of the cash register ringing - this week was our highest grossing week since launch. Everytime I get that little notification from Stripe that we got paid, it feels surreal! It's taken a few weeks- felt like a few years, right Aditya Jagannathan? It is nice to see the return on all the hard work. We have 10x 🚀 our user sign up rate; we do more now in a few hours than we did in a whole week! A few learnings: OKR- I have done this at large enterprises but frankly it loses its power with all the dynamics at play; for us this a game changer. We only track 3 objectives and they are like a staircase/funnel. Started red across the board and then climbed the staircase to the top- paying and satisfied customers. Cash- Always knew it but realized the importance again. We transformed from an engineering war machine geared for rapid development to a business and were truly surprised by how efficiently we can run. Examining every $ out of the door got our fixed burn rate down by 80%!! Microsoft for Startups- special thanks to you here for the incredibly generous grant ($150K++) through founder's hub for all things Azure and more. This put ~25% of our cash flow back in our pocket instantly. We are proudly built on Microsoft Azure and I love it! (to all my ex-MS peeps, keep West US2 humming!) Relentless execution- Starting a new business is hard; every day is about fleeting doubts and unlimited problems. As a team, we consciously decided that we don't spend working time talking about anything outside of our core focus topic- which is a derivative of OKR's. This is a super power in moving forward with speed; our problems evolve constantly. Kaizen- Most all problems seem so large at the outset they can be paralyzing. Small steps every day is much much easier to do and keeps you motivated to achieve the next milestone. It has been an incredible journey so far. I talk to dozens of customers daily and listening to their stories is heartbreaking; we are glad to be part of the solution for them. Immigration is hard but it doesn't need to be and we will continue to work on making it accessible for all.

I came to the US in 2006 as an undergraduate student and instantly fell in love with everything about this country and felt like this was home. In my time here I have found amazing friends, colleagues and people I cherish; I even found my life partner Shae Hurst a few years ago. There is a dark side to being an immigrant in the US. In all the years I have spent in the US on various statuses- student, worker and now permanent resident; the immigration journey has been harrowing. Not unlike pretty much all other immigrants, I have had my fair share of pains. Some of the more painful events I have endured involved not seeing loved ones because I couldn't leave the country and having to leave the country at a moment's notice because my visa renewal got messed up. These incidents don't even begin to outline the sheer anxiety and hopelessness one faces while going through this seemingly never ending journey. If you know an immigrant there is high likelihood that they have faced this pain and know it all too well. The pain in this journey is even more amplified by the processes that immigrants endure to apply for benefits. Various immigration benefits are hard to attain because of limited availability but the process of applying shouldn't have to be as painful, long and expensive as it is today. I can do little to impact the policies that lead to these challenges (at least in the short-term) but I have chosen to address the process side of the problem. If you are eligible for a green card, the process of applying for one should be a simple, no-stress event. With great pleasure I want to announce general availability for https://USAPath.com USAPath is a product of Immigrant Nation Inc. We are guided by our mission statement “Empowering immigrants with swift, easy, transparent, and affordable pathways.“ We are committed to changing the landscape of immigration and have taken a small step to making life better for immigrants with our flagship product. USAPath currently supports green card applications for those seeking to apply under the eligibility of marriage to an American. We expect to ramp up our coverage to include a majority of green card categories and citizenship application in the upcoming months. In our approach, we have been entirely guided by our mission statement and have focused our effort on making a product that brings delight to our immigrant customers. I am very excited about the journey and the benefits this may bring to the quality of life for all immigrants in USA. Immigrant Nation and Team USAPath has some awesome folks working in engineering, product, design and runops. We also have an amazing partner in Wong Fleming (Hi Shahzad Qadri!); Wong Fleming brings a wealth of legal expertise to our product to help ensure we are delivering solutions that meet the best legal standards for our customers. Special shoutout to Zack Gilburd for being an early backer and helping us think with a security first mindset.

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Co-Founder at my new startup!! Details to follow :) I have a small team thats working to build a tech product aimed to achieve a mission we are deeply passionate about and are excited by the impact it will bring for people in need. Selfish plug: looking for awesome folks with full-stack experience, meaningful exposure to React and Redux heavy app engineering. Please reach out!

Hi Network! Looking to connect with engineers profecient in building apps using REACT and REDUX for a cool opportunity. If this is you please reach out, superstar!