Harish Kumar S S

Frontend Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Created a comprehensive internal design system.
Led a team to victory in a hackathon.
Significant performance improvements in Freshchat.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Frontend Developer with strong experience in SaaS applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

React.jsFrontend Development

Other Skills

App DevC++CSSEmberJSHTMLInternet of Things (IoT)JavaScriptLeadershipMicrosoft OfficeNode.jsPython (Programming Language)SQLTailwind CSSVite.jsWeb Content Writing

About

Hey there, I'm Harish Kumar, I have worked with CRED for three years contributing to web platforms. Been using react, webpack and vitejs mostly. I used to work at Freshdesk Messaging (customer chat software) on EmberJS and websockets(PS: I know react too :) ). I help maintain reactjs.org official documentation site, Im also part of ESLint's web team and I also contribute to webpack loaders and plugins, eslint cli. You can see more about me at https://strek.in

Experience

5 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Cred

Senior Frontend Engineer

May 2022 – May 2025 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

✨ Created internal design system for platforms
✨ This includes design token tailwind plugin, fonts library, the functional library and its docs
✨ The design system included end to end flows from setting up till publishing and versioning it
✨ Built Communications Platform that allowed CRED to send comms message through channels like SMS, Email, RCS, Whatsapp, In-app Notifications and Push Notifications from one portal.
✨ Was the only frontend engineer handling entire comms configuration portal
✨ Built experiments module UI that allows a particular group of users to be part of A/B testing
✨ Developed Segmentation module UI to enable grouping of users by specific characteristics
✨ Standardised webpack configs in multiple platforms
✨ Developed BidBlast flow on web and an internal tool to power the game
✨ Wrote Form Renderer that helps developers write forms quicker rather than repeating the code reducing duplicate code

React.jsWebpackVite.jsTailwind CSSJavaScriptFrontend Development

Freshworks

3 roles

Software Engineer - Frontend

Promoted

Jan 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

✨ Completely owned Freshchat Inbox module
✨ Performance improvements
✨ Implemented occlusion rendering in Freshchat reducing the render time of dropdown from
8000 ms to 19ms
✨ Revamped API call flows to reduce API calls (one endpoint saw reduction from 3 million to 1.5 million during peak hours)
✨ Removed unused scripts and cleaned up unwanted code logics
✨ Worked on Integrating Freshbots, Freshsales, Freshmarketer
✨ Helped improve the stability of Inbox in Freshchat reducing L2 inflow
✨ Built a paginated dropdown that can render data from API as well as already present data with pagination support and efficient rendering

EmberJSWebSocketsJavaScriptFrontend Development

Graduate Trainee

Oct 2020 – Jan 2021 · 3 mos

✨ Lead a team of 3 to victory in Freshworks Internal Hackathon 2020
✨ Only Graduate trainee team to win the hackathon and got promoted to Software Engineer.