Shnehasish Chandra

"Who makes sure the technology behind your site works — and keeps working?"

Santu does. Fifteen-plus years of full-stack engineering, quietly holding the whole thing together.

Shnehasish Chandra — "Santu" to the team — is DigiVino's Lead Engineer: a seasoned full-stack software engineer and technology leader who builds robust web architectures and steers complex IT projects. He has helped drive and evolve DigiVino's technology since 2012.

His expertise runs deep across the full stack — WordPress and PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX, and custom API integrations. Over a distinguished 14-year tenure at Pragmatyc, he advanced from HTML/CSS designer to IT Project Coordinator and Assistant Manager. A multi-award-winning engineer (corporate honors including Stallworth and Maximist of the Year), he also co-founds an online consultancy, lending strategic technical insight beyond his core engineering work.

Specialties

• Full-stack development
• WordPress (PHP) & MySQL
• JavaScript & AJAX
• Custom API integrations
• Web architecture & performance
• IT project leadership

What Shnehasish does at DigiVino

As Lead Engineer, Shnehasish — Santu to the team — owns the architecture underneath client sites and the technical decisions that are expensive to reverse. He has helped drive and evolve DigiVino's technology since 2012, which makes him the longest-serving person at the agency after Pamela, and it shows in how he builds: for the version of the site that has to exist in five years, not the one being demonstrated on Friday.

Ask Shnehasish about

• Custom API integrations, and connecting systems never designed to talk to each other
• WordPress and PHP architecture — and when to stop using WordPress
• Site performance: why it is slow, and what will actually fix it
• Scoping and running a complex technical project