Shounak Ray
Technology strategist and product-oriented professional with 4+ years of experience building and launching scalable products across healthcare, media, and agri-tech. Experienced in product development, stakeholder management, client-facing delivery, cross-functional leadership, and full-stack engineering, with a track record of bridging technology and business needs across the product lifecycle.
Work Experience:
4.2 Years
Industry:
Technology
Function:
IT & Systems Management | Product Management | Software Engineering
Work Experience
Antares Tech (Technology startup building custom software solutions globally)
Software Engineer
- Built 3+ web applications and launched 2 products across telehealth, podcasting, and agri-tech, spanning problem definition, user research, workflow design, development, launch, and post-launch ownership.
- Served as primary product liaison for 3 international clients, leading requirements discussions, product demos, progress reviews, and scope negotiations across product, engineering, sales, and end users to align development with business needs.
- Led a 4-member team to deliver a $250K+ Unified Controller Dashboard for 100+ IoT systems, replacing unreliable daily updates with live monitoring to improve visibility for field technicians and regional managers.
- Led 3 developers and collaborated with 4 client stakeholders to launch Libsyn Connect, extending Libsyn into remote podcast creation for 1,200 creators/year and supporting its vertical integration from publishing into content creation.
- Contributed to a $3M telehealth platform enabling remote diagnosis and consultations across hospital and ambulance use cases, extending Visionflex’s medical hardware portfolio into a software-enabled offering with a reported 60% gross profit margin.
Accomplishments
- Student Leadership: Served as President, Vice President, Webmaster and Philanthropy Chair of Chi Sigma Tau National Fraternity.
- Academic Distinction: Recognized as Dean's List at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- Academic Excellence: Received 7 (2009-15) consecutive Outstanding Academic Excellence awards at FAIPS, Kuwait.
- Music Certification: Completed Grade 4 & 5 Acoustic Guitar certification from London College of Music with Distinction.
Education
- Master of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | United States
- Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | United States
Certification
- - Acoustic Guitar Grade 5 Certification: London College of Music; Passed with Distinction, 2013.
- - Acoustic Guitar Grade 4 Certification: London College of Music; Passed with Distinction, 2012.
Extra-curricular
- Internship: Intern at Caterpillar Inc. (CAT Digital) in Champaign, Illinois, USA (May 2019-May 2020)
- Member (Publications Cell) at ProdMan Club (Product Management Club) at IIM-A
- Member (Events Team) at Decibel Club (Music Club) at IIM-A
- Coordinator for International Immersion Program (IIP) for PGPX Cohort
- President, Vice President, Webmaster and Philanthropy Chair, Chi Sigma Tau National Fraternity Inc., UIUC
- Represented FAIPS School, Kuwait at Harvard Model United Nations in 2013 and 2014.
- Served as Head Boy, Student Council, FAIPS School, Kuwait (Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2014).
- Ranked #1 in two inter-school and one intra-school quiz contests; organized intra-school Social Science Quiz contest.
- Guitarist, School Band; ranked #1 in intra-school talent hunt solo performance and #2 in inter-school Battle of Bands.
- Languages: English (Fluent), Bengali (Fluent), Hindi (Fluent), French (Beginner).