Ashok Kidraj

Entrepreneur, Software Engineer, and Musician in the Milky Way Galaxy

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Nomadic (San Francisco, New Mexico, Spain, Toronto, etc.)

Today

## Flow State Podcast
Host of the Flow State: a podcast designed to help you focus. This platform is a vessel for me to mix sound, music and ideas to unlock human flow. Each episode combines minimal electronic/instrumental music with the Pomodoro technique to help listeners focus and flow with their craft.

## Music
I also spend a lot of time on music, DJing in San Francisco, Burning Man as part of DeMentha and mostly virtually now. You can find my music on Soundcloud and Spotify.

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Past Work

## Daydream
Eng Lead and Manager at daydream - end-to-end automated programmatic SEO.

## Doji
A new, modern way to play the stock market. As a technical co-founder, I helped build v1 - from backend (node, typescript) to client (React, iOS). While I've decided to move on to focus on other things, the team is doing very well, growing and building the future of stock market trading.

## Social Capital
At Social Capital helped build Capital as a Service, which automated and scaled the process of investing in startups globally.

## Dropbox
At Dropbox, I lead the development of Dropbox Paper's Android application.

## Umano
Lead Android development at Umano as one of the founding engineer. Umano was later acquired by Dropbox in 2015.

## Google
I began my career at Pushlife, a Canadian music commerce startup, which was later acquired by Google. At Google, I worked on Google Photos.

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Other things I love to do: group meditation, cook, kayaking, yoga, writing / storytelling.

  • Work
    • Software Engineer
  • Education
    • University of Waterloo