Jose Chacko
Assistant Manager – Web Developer, PPFAS · Developer by background, product thinker by instinct
Mumbai, India josejoy2216@gmail.com josechacko.com linkedin.com/in/josejoychacko github.com/josejoy2216
Summary
Assistant Manager – Web Developer at PPFAS, building business-critical websites, portals, an investment platform and internal systems. Saved ₹20+ lakh in fixed costs, combined across seven builds, and ₹10+ lakh in annual recurring cost, attributed jointly to an event-management system and a Career portal. Built two prototypes: SYNAPSE, an AI SaaS product prototype for LinkedIn personal branding (not deployed, no users), and SignBridge, an accessibility research prototype that maps speech in a video to a sequence of Indian Sign Language concepts. Currently enrolled in the Certification in Product Management with Applied AI Program (iHUB DivyaSampark, IIT Roorkee, with Masai School) and exploring Associate Product Manager and Product Manager roles.
Experience
Assistant Manager – Web Developer
Apr 2026 – PresentPPFAS · Mumbai, India
At PPFAS since Oct 2024: Web Designer (Oct 2024 – Mar 2025), Executive – Web Developer (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026)
- Built static pages and management portals that reduced dependency on the tech team; across seven builds, the combined fixed-cost saving is ₹20+ lakh.
- Built an event-management system (QR scanning and door list) and a Career portal; ₹10+ lakh in annual recurring cost saved, attributed jointly to the two.
- Built and launched gift.ppfas.com and wealth.ppfas.com, and built the separate PPFAS Gift investment platform, integrated with a third-party payment gateway, with international payment support.
- Created a management portal for amc.ppfas.com covering backend-managed website workflows, job portal features and related internal portals.
- Built a compliance and QC backend portal for uploads and staff management.
- Designed website layouts and email templates in Figma and Photoshop before implementation. Stack: Laravel, React, PHP, WordPress, AWS, CI/CD-driven deployment workflows.
Professional Software Developer
Feb 2024 – Sep 2024Akbar Travels
- Full-stack delivery across React, Express, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL, Firebase and Java, with a web development focus centred on JavaScript.
- Delivered work across web, real-time and data-driven use cases.
Data Analyst and Billing
Jun 2021 – May 2022Mansha Distributors LLP
- Implemented pricing strategies that increased net profit by 150%, from INR 100,000 to INR 250,000.
- Handled pricing, billing and sales-support analysis to improve business decisions and operational performance.
- Managed product suggestions and sales-force optimization.
Selected projects
SYNAPSE: an AI SaaS product prototype for LinkedIn personal branding
Prototype, not deployedNext.js, React, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Redis, Docker, GitHub Actions
- Built a full-stack prototype that surfaces trending topics in a user’s niche from Hacker News, Google News and LinkedIn hashtag feeds, and drafts three LinkedIn post variations in the user’s voice with OpenAI, Gemini or Claude.
- Built an approval-first flow (nothing is posted without an explicit user action), style learning from the user’s own edits to AI drafts, multi-provider support, bring-your-own API keys (stored encrypted) and per-plan monthly token limits.
- LinkedIn publishing, scheduling, Razorpay subscriptions and the daily email digest are implemented but not verified live, and there are no automated tests.
SignBridge: mapping spoken video to a sequence of Indian Sign Language concepts
Research prototypePython, FastAPI, faster-whisper, FFmpeg, React, three.js, MediaPipe
- Built a weekend-scale MVP to test technical feasibility: it transcribes a spoken video, maps its meaning to a sequence of sign-language concepts and plays the signs back in sync with the video (2 of 209 vocabulary entries are real ISL clips).
- In a separate research track, retargeted real ISL motion (MediaPipe landmarks) onto a rigged three.js avatar; an analytical two-bone IK correction cut mean wrist trajectory error by roughly 85% on a HELLO clip versus the earlier clamp-based approach (0.2405 to 0.0354 of arm length); a later arm-clipping fix raised it to 0.0665.
- Documented the limits: in local, uncommitted research on FRIEND, a sign with hand-to-hand contact, right-hand tracking fell to 34% of frames (77% on HELLO); translations have not been reviewed by a qualified ISL interpreter.
Earlier: Book Nook (MERN e-commerce app for books) and a real-time multiplayer Mafia game.
Skills
- Product practice: scoping a weekend-scale MVP around one feasibility question (SignBridge); designing before building (PPFAS); building workflow tools that reduce dependency on a tech team (PPFAS); documenting limitations (SignBridge, SYNAPSE); keeping a visually correct fix even when it worsened the evaluation metric (SignBridge).
- Technical: PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, NestJS, Python, FastAPI, HTML, CSS, WordPress, REST APIs, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Prisma, Redis, AWS, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, three.js, MediaPipe.
- Design and tools: Figma, Photoshop (website layouts and email templates).
- Data and analysis: pricing and billing analysis (Mansha Distributors); quantitative evaluation of experiments (SignBridge); Google Data Analytics certificate.
Education
Certification in Product Management with Applied AI Program
Currently enrollediHUB DivyaSampark, IIT Roorkee (with Masai School)
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
2022 – 2024Thakur Institute of Management Studies, Career Development & Research (TIMSCDR) · CGPA 7.83 / 10
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
2018 – 2021Thakur Ramnarayan College of Arts & Commerce · CGPA 8.65 / 10
Certifications
NISM Series V-A Certification · Google Data Analytics (Coursera / Google) · Google Cloud (Google, 2022) · Programming using JavaScript (Microsoft, 2020) · Programming in Java (NPTEL) · Cross-Platform Mobile App Development (Microsoft) · Java Certification and RDBMS PostgreSQL (Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay)
Leadership and activities
Developed leadership through fest, NSS and coaching responsibilities; built communication and presentation skills.