The professional side

Nineteen years of shipping. Oslo on and off since 2014, for good since 2019. Backend and platform work on systems that fail loudly if you get them wrong.

Mumbai → Johannesburg → Delhi NCR → Oslo. Currently at Vend Marketplaces - the umbrella parent behind finn.no, blocket.se, tori.fi and dba.dk - on the messaging platform that all four brands run on.

Current
Oct 2022 - Present
Oslo

Vend Marketplaces (formerly FINN.no)

Senior Software Engineer

Backend and platform work on Vend's messaging platform - four Nordic marketplaces (finn.no, blocket.se, tori.fi, dba.dk) on one codebase, ~30 microservices on Kubernetes. The part I keep coming back to: changes that start in one brand and break in four, where no single team owns the fix. On FINN.no we redesigned the messaging frontend around the seller, with conversations grouped by ad, so a seller with several ads sees who is asking about what in one place. I built the backend changes behind it, worked through the design decisions with the team, and built parts of the frontend in React, TanStack and Tailwind.

Lately, prototyping LLM features inside the messaging thread.

Company privacy policy and code of conduct keep the specifics off this page - LinkedIn has what I can share publicly.

Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Oslo

DNB

Senior Software Engineer

Open banking under PSD2. Data-sharing APIs for Skatteetaten and Politi. Small team, end-to-end ownership, the kind of code review where the bar is set by the person asking the sharpest question.

Dec 2019 - May 2021
Oslo

CGI Norge

Senior Consultant

Cards platform - global, millions of transactions a day. Led a team to ship a new microservice in two months. Ran a cloud infrastructure pilot on GCP + Pub/Sub, shelved by COVID budget cuts. Agile lead through the org's Atlassian migration.

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Oslo

Altran Norge

Senior Software Developer

Identity & access management (STIM), internal React + Spring app, GDPR document-redactor POC on Google Cloud OCR.

Nov 2014 - May 2019
Oslo & India

Tata Consultancy Services - Posten Norge / Bring

Senior Developer → Technical Lead

Distributed Agile team building the logistics web platform for Posten Norge / Bring - 20+ Java web applications, 15–20 deploys a day, an in-house DevOps + monitoring framework we built because nothing off-the-shelf fit. A rotational posting from 2014 to 2019: a year in Oslo, then a year back in India, in turn. Test-code volume exceeded production-code volume, deliberately. Grew into team-lead responsibility. The high-cadence, delete-first engineering discipline I run on today started here.

Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Hyderabad

TCS Initial Learning Program

Java / J2EE Instructor

Trained cohorts of 30–35 new joiners on core Java and J2EE. Teacher before I was an engineer.

Nov 2012 - May 2014
Delhi NCR

TCS Delhi NCR

Technical Lead

Technical lead on a credit-rating platform for a European investment bank - functional analysis, technical design, code review, and deploys through SIT/UAT. Ran the sprint ceremonies alongside the build.

Nov 2010 - Oct 2012
Johannesburg

TCS Johannesburg

Technical Solutions Architect → Peoplesoft Functional Consultant

Two years for the University of the Witwatersrand - a student admissions and progression rules engine, then a Peoplesoft Campus Solutions enrolments rollout. Grew from building the engine to owning the functional analysis on the platform side.

Sep 2007 - Nov 2010
Mumbai

TCS Mumbai

Developer → Technical Architect → Technical Lead

First job. Three years of Java/J2EE financial platforms for two clients - TATA Capital and AXIS Bank. Mutual funds, fixed deposits, vendor reference data, a trading-portal CMS - the origin of the financial-platform work. Started as a developer and moved through the ranks quickly, to technical architect and then technical lead, on the back-office and reconciliation systems.

▸ The projects - 2 at TATA Capital and AXIS Bank
TATA Capital
  • Mutual Fund Online Trading & Back Office Developer → Technical Architect → Technical Lead

    An early online mutual-fund trading platform in India: the investor frontend and the back office that ran it.

AXIS Bank
  • AXIS Direct Senior Developer

    Online trading portal for AXIS Bank customers. Built the CMS and the interface engine for live market data.

In their words

Four people, four different rooms.

Achint combines profound technical abilities with excellent architectural insight, domain knowledge and understanding of the user perspective. He is committed to quality engineering and continuous improvement, searching for ways to improve himself and the team every day. During our time together in FINN, Achint was a pillar in our team - primarily in the backend and devops space but contributing across the stack and really all over the place. He has the capabilities required for troubleshooting those hard production problems in pragmatic, efficient ways.

CK
Christian Kjendseth Wiik
Senior Software Developer at Storebrand
Worked together at FINN (now Vend), 2022–2024
Recommendation received August 2024

A software-engineer at heart. Always looking for ways to simplify and improve - be it the way of working or core Java. Adopting new technologies and sharing his knowledge comes natural to him. Hardworking, dedicated and a true team player.

MJ
Marius Jakobsen
Staff Engineer at Handelsbanken
Worked together at CGI, 2019–2021
Recommendation received March 2021

I have worked with Achint last 4 years in Posten Norge AS, where Achint was a consultant through TCS. Achint has worked hard and made good deliveries all the time. As he became more experienced, he got more responsibility and ended up as teamlead for one of the teams. Achint managed this role as well, where he worked close with business to understand business needs and was able to break up tasks and give good deliveries through his team.

EM
Endre Midtgård Meckelborg
Arkitekt at Digitaliseringsetaten
Worked together at Posten Norge, 2015–2019
Recommendation received June 2019

One of the smartest Java developers I have worked with. We collaborated on building a custom rules engine for a large university to automate their admission, enrollment, and progression rules. Achint designed and developed the rules engine from scratch and built an abstraction layer that provided an extremely well-designed user interface on top of the technical rules engine, allowing faculty admins to set up rules in English and test them on their own. His amazing work ethic ensured that he never missed a deadline.

PP
Prashant Prakash
Sales Director at Accenture
Worked together at TCS Johannesburg, 2010–2012
Recommendation received April 2023

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On GitHub - @achintSatsangi

Nineteen public repos. AI experiments, workshop material, and a few small frontend apps.

customer-support-scam-identifier

Python

A side-project classifier for spotting scams in customer-support conversations.

langchain-rag-example

Python

Learning-in-public: a minimal RAG example built with LangChain to reason about retrieval trade-offs.

k8s-workshop

Kubernetes workshop material - teaching-heritage carried over from TCS ILP days.

counter-app

JavaScript

A small React app I use as a hooks scratchpad.

fifa-rankings

TypeScript

Hobby project - FIFA rankings visualiser. Weekend curiosity.

altrannorge-plank

Java

The planking-competition app from my Altran Norge days - React + Spring Boot on Heroku.

Before the code.

Three years of diploma, then three of the engineering degree. The diploma built the practical fundamentals, so the degree came lighter - maths, analytical thinking, and engineering drawing already in hand. That left student life mostly for the field and the band: captain of the university and engineering-faculty volleyball teams, vice-captain in football and basketball, on the athletics podium most years, lead drummer of the university band for three years. Leading teams and keeping time for other people, long before I did either in a codebase.

I still go back. I run mock interviews with Dayalbagh students to get them ready for their first jobs, give sessions on technology and where it’s heading, and stay active on the alumni channels.

Dayalbagh Educational Institute · Agra · Diploma + engineering degree · 2001–2007

A note on nineteen years.

The timeline reads clean. The work rarely was: 3am pages, migrations that ran long, plans that changed under us. That’s the experience I bring into the room.