Shivam Bhalla

Senior Software Engineer

San Mateo, California, United States13 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 11 years of software engineering experience.
Led impactful projects driving significant user engagement.
Expert in both front-end and back-end development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Engineer with a focus on SaaS and Social Media applications.

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AWSAdobe SuiteBabelData ScienceDatabricks/QuboleDockerFigmaFlowGQLGithubIntegration TestsInvisionLESS/SASSNGINXReact

About

With over eleven years of working experience as a Software Engineer, specializing in front-end as well as backend, native iOS, and data engineering, I have a strong passion for building and scaling products, coming up with creative solutions, creating a significant impact with my work, and using data as a guiding light to achieve maximum results. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE A/B Tests, Javascript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Vue, Flow, Unit Tests, Integration Tests, Node JS, Python, PHP, Swift, SQL, Databricks/Qubole, MongoDB, GQL, LESS/SASS, Docker, AWS, NGINX, Webpack, Babel, HTML5, OOP, MVC / MVVM, jQuery, AJAX, Responsive Design, WordPress, Figma, Invision, Adobe Suite, Github.

Experience

Roblox

Senior Software Engineer II

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Mateo County, California, United States · On-site

Nextdoor

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Lead for Neighborhood Faves Winners for the past four years, which is Nextdoor’s most successful product feature on the market and drives a significant impact on user sessions, revenue, and faves for the company.
Leading major projects end to end, working closely with product, creating engineering review documents with tracking across all disciplines, working with a team of eight engineers, as well as cross-functional teams, building the features across web and iOS, and finally analyzing the data to understand how the feature impacted our customers.
Mentored numerous engineers, conducted multiple impactful technical presentations to large audiences, and interviewed over a hundred candidates across Frontend web, iOS, and backend roles.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Significantly increased company revenue by creating sponsored ad content on search feed for frontend web and iOS.
Led a company-wide initiative to incorporate @mentions and hashtags for iOS, resulting in a substantial increase in new business-tagged content on the platform.
Led a transformative latency project focused on iOS webviews, driving a remarkable 50% reduction in iOS webview Time to Interactive (TTI) at the 50th percentile (p50), resulting in a substantial surge in user engagement.
Led SEO projects which resulted in a significant increase in organic traffic increase to business page views through strategic SEO implementation, using sitemaps, meta data, and rich structured data.

Troolr inc.

Founder

Dec 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Jose, CA

Conceptualized and engineered a comprehensive full-stack daily revenue-generating application over a span of two years, utilizing React, Node, MongoDB, and Swift from inception.
Orchestrated the creation of in-house growth hacking mechanisms, including automated scrapers, notifiers, tools, and SEO optimizations, yielding a user base of 50k+ and an impressive 10M+ page views.

Brandboom

Senior Front End Engineer

Apr 2017 – Dec 2017 · 8 mos · Los Angeles, CA

Spearheaded front-end engineering efforts, driving the implementation of contemporary technology stacks, including Vue.js, SASS, webpack, ES6, and various other cutting-edge tools and frameworks.

Hi5.agency

Senior Front End Engineer

May 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Burbank. CA

Developed and maintained websites and games for prominent clients including Netflix, Nickelodeon, Sony Pictures, and Disney Interactive. Notably, examples of my work can be explored at www.shivam-bhalla.com.