# Viren Mohindra

> Engineering at Pepper

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/viren

Two-time founding engineer experienced in 0->1 development
I enjoy playing chess in my free time
I write here - https://blog.virenmohindra.me/s/technicals

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Pepper
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States

### Founding Software Engineer @ Gently
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
Gently is building the Amazon of secondhand. We help 100,000s of customers find the best deals from Poshmark, Depop, eBay, and more

- Helped build the Gently.com website + iOS App with Next.js and React Native
- Brought checkout in-house by integrating payments, automating checkout on our partners' websites, and email parsing the transactional & order information
- Reverse engineered and built ETL pipelines to serve thousands of searches every hour

### Founding Software Engineer @ Jupitrr
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Hong Kong SAR
Jupitrr is an AI video maker that enables creators to make content marketing videos much faster by hot swapping stock footage, and add captions for all social platforms

- Videos are generated programmatically, which allows them to be editable in real-time. Helped develop the infrastructure to support bypassing AWS concurrency and timeout limits for exporting 30 minute long full HD videos
- Built the initial automated video generation pipeline hosted on AWS Lambda, communicating with Firestore + React frontend. Reduced generation time from 180 secs down to less than 20 by moving serverless

### Founder @ localbee
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Hong Kong SAR

### Experience Consultant Intern @ PwC India
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineering Intern @ Planto
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Hong Kong SAR

### Software Engineering Intern @ Neat, A Rapyd company
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Hong Kong SAR


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Film & TV Production and Computer Science
New York University

### High School Diploma in Commerce with Computer Science
VASANT VALLEY SCHOOL

### Summer Course in Mandarin
The Mandarin House


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/virenmohindra
- Website: https://virenmohindra.me
- GitHub: https://github.com/VirenMohindra
- Website: https://blog.virenmohindra.me/s/technicals

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/viren/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-20