About

Hi, I am Oitihjya Sen, a lawyer-turned programmer from India.

I am currently working as a backend engineer at Helpshift.

Prior to joining Helpshift, I attended the Recurse Center, New York, where I met some of the smartest and most curious programmers from across the globe.

In my erstwhile avatar as a lawyer, I worked as a Research Fellow at India’s leading legal think tank (2019-21), where I contributed towards modernizing India’s bankruptcy legal framework.

Here are a few of my personal projects:

• A per-user URL shortener (GitHub Repository),
• A Twitter bot that aggregates blog posts from RSS and Atom feeds and publishes them on Twitter (GitHub Repository),
• A simple Lisp interpreter (GitHub Repository),
• Implementation of Search Relevance using BM25 algorithm (GitHub Repository),
• A meeting scheduler that handles time-slot conflicts (GitHub Repository), and
• This blog (GitHub Repository)

I have written over 40 posts on my tech blog, on various topics ranging from OAuth framework, higher-order functions, JavaScript Promises to cache replacement policies and lazy sequences in Clojure.

I love participating in spirited debates, discussing politics over Darjeeling Tea, and listening to good old RabindraSangeet!

To contact me, drop a mail to contact@otee.dev! Also, here’s my Github profile.