Jan 2024 – Sep 2024 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led a team of 5 engineers to re-architect a canvas-based design editor using HTML Canvas, React, and Redux, significantly enhancing the editor’s stability and performance.
• Implemented and streamlined processes for code reviews, including Red-Team reviews, and introduced best practices, resulting in a 160% increase in constructive feedback per PR and improved overall code quality.
• Developed core functionalities such as an HTML box model for HTML Canvas, optimistic image uploads, image cropping, fit/fill mechanisms, canvas pinch and zoom, layout management, and a custom key-mappable shortcut system, among others.
• Established a robust bi-directional state management framework between React, Redux, and HTML Canvas, improving the editor’s stability and predictability.
• Played a key role in the hiring process, building a strong engineering team and mentoring members to enhance their technical skills and product understanding.
• Promoted and maintained documentation practices, including writing RFCs and technical documentation, ensuring clear communication and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including customer success, sales, and managed services team, to prioritize and address key features for the new editor, aligning with company goals and ensuring a successful launch.
• Drove strategic initiatives by introducing the new editor during the Open House events, earning trust from stakeholders and ensuring a smooth rollout with a phased launch plan.

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading the Generative AI Engineering wing to build extensive and scalable text-to-text and text-to-image generative AI capabilities throughout the product to reduce turn around time (TAT) by 50%.
• As part of the GenAI Engineering team I built image editing tools like Magic Eraser to easily remove unwanted elements from an image, and multiple internal tools to test and deploy LLMs.
• Currently building a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system (like Google Drive but for complex creative operation use-cases).
• Performed a major migration for frontend infrastructure from Node 12 to Node 18, and Webpack 4 to Webpack 5, while introducing and implementing industry standard linting rules to increase developer productivity by reducing build times by 3x and deployment speed by 2x
• Collaborated with Design Teams to implement an in-house design system within 2 months, improving UI consistency and reducing component redundancies.
• Lead and shipped the efforts for building a project management platform for creative teams with ticket management and multi-channel notifications.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Helping companies like Amazon, Myntra, Flipkart, ClearTrip, Meesho, Nykaa and other unicorns create ads for millions of users with Rocketium's Campaign Editor.
• Lead the Creative Analytics frontend team to building the most powerful platform to analyse marketing creatives and derive insights to drive campaign growth.
• Optimised the platform's performance by reducing the rendering time by 24% and increasing the frame rate by 3x.
• Worked on creating a Spotlight Search experience for designers and marketers using the software reducing context switching time by 60%

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos

• Designed and delivered 120+ hours of content on Full-Stack Web Development for the very first Cohort Based Classes (CBC) for the Crio Fellowship Programme.
• Taught and mentored a cohort of 60+ industry professionals with 0-3 years of experience, in form of live classes with a net promoter score (NPS) of 84%.
• Developed several mini-projects to help people understand concepts of HTML & CSS, React, and NodeJS.
• Migrated a complete micro-experience project for an e-commerce store from React Classes to Functional Components with Hooks and Material UI v5.
• Wrote several test-suites using React Testing Library for automated testing of React based e-commerce web application.
• Content covered sections including fundamentals of UI design for frontend developers, basics of CSS (including Bootstrap), JS Event Loop and concurrency model, asynchronous programming, DOM manipulation, React (with Classes and Hooks), React Context, Routing, NodeJS, MongoDB, Authentication, Testing using Jest.

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021 · 1 mo

• Designed and delivered 40+ hours of content on Fundamentals of JavaScript for the very first Cohort Based Classes (CBC) for the Crio Fellowship Programme.
• Taught and mentored a cohort of 25+ industry professionals with 0-3 years of experience, in form of live classes with a net promoter score (NPS) of 78.89%.
• Content covered sections like an introduction to JS ecosystem, ES6/7, Object-Oriented Programming with JS including classical and prototypal inheritance, Functional Programming & introduction to DSA with JS.

Feb 2021 – Apr 2021 · 2 mos · Remote

• Mentored 12 teams for a 6-week duration for their externship with Recko on Accounting Dashboard Integration project.
• Conducted hour-long weekly AMA sessions with participants guiding them on the project in the domains of UI/UX, Frontend, and Backend development (MERN Stack).

Sep 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

• Resuminator is an online resume builder service that provides an intuitive drag-n-drop and what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) approach to create appealing resumes in less than 15 minutes.
• Leading design & development of this free & open-source single-page resume builder tool.
• Web app built using React, TypeScript, Next JS, Chakra UI, Node JS, Express, & Puppeteer.
• Actively maintaining the project and managing a growing user base of 2500+ users and 200+ MAUs.
• Where Resuminator wins?
• Single and Two-Column Resumes in minutes.
• Build multiple resumes for different job-profiles.
• Use your existing resumes as templates for new ones.
• Add custom social handles and custom sections to your resume.
• Carefully curated sections like Education, Experience, Certifications to help you easily fill in the needed information for your next job.
• Powerful design controls with spacing adjustment, handpicked font-pairings, and color swatch.
• Rich text-editor with Grammarly® support to never make spelling or grammar mistakes.
• Add profile images to every resume.
• And all this for FREE! No hidden charges. Completely Open-Source and Community Driven.

May 2020 – Sep 2020 · 4 mos

• Created Rucio Desktop: a cross-platform GUI Client for Rucio-Exascale Scientific Data Management Framework.
• Created Rucio Notifier: lightweight cross-platform graphical system-tray utility to monitor and get notified about large scale file transfers using Rucio.
• Improved the Rucio-FUSE-POSIX interface, which allows the user to mount the Rucio server on the system and browse like a UNIX directory.
• Actively maintaining the repositories for Rucio Notifier and Desktop.
• Wrote unit tests and developer and user documentation for both Rucio Notifier and Desktop.

Feb 2020 – Aug 2020 · 6 mos

• Selected as Google Summer of Code '20 Student.
• Worked with CERN-HSF and Rucio on Native Desktop Application for Rucio under 4 mentors.

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Indian Academy of Science’s Summer Research Fellow (SRF)
• Worked under Prof. K.S. Mallikarjuna Rao, on a research project titled ‘Strategic Aspects of Linear Regression’
• Completed a 24-Page Research Report with the same title.
• Studied Linear Algebra, Probability, Statistics, Game Theory (Non-Cooperative Strategic Form Games and Nash Equilibrium) and Machine Learning algorithm (Linear Regression) with research point of view.
• Gave weekly presentations on research progress to the faculty, PhD research scholars and fellow interns.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 mo · Greater Jaipur Area

• Worked under the direct guidance of Mr Vimal Daga. Got recognized as a Red Hat Certified System Administrator after clearing the RHCSA exam in the first attempt with a 95% score.
• Developed an open-source speech operated tool to set up (and reset) large scale multi-node Hadoop HDFS and Map Reduce clusters using RedHat Ansible 2.6 and used full-stack software development paradigms.
• Deployed a machine learning model using dockers to predict the expenses and savings of students living in hostels by analysing their expenditure trend using exploratory data analysis and statistical methods.

Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 · 4 mos

• Design and Publicity Team Head and Executive Member. Lead Designer and Video Editor with managerial roles. Mentor to many young and new designers and video editors, training them to become professionally skilled in this field.

May 2018 – Jan 2019 · 8 mos

• Campaigning, Advertisement and, Promotion Team (CAPT). Handling the publicity and promotion of the cell on various social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and, LinkedIn. Application of digital marketing concepts to increase engagement and reach of the posts and updates.

Aug 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos