Ekansh Kothiyal

Head of Design

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

10 years of experience in front-end development.
Led multiple projects for international clients.
Active participant in social work and cultural committees.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Frontend Developer with expertise in eCommerce and digital solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

ShopifyReactjsVuejsJavascriptQuality Assurance

Other Skills

A/B testingAgile methodologiesApplication developmentCMSConvertES6Google Tag ManagerGulp.jsHTMLManual testingMathematicsOptimizelyPHPPWAPresentation Skills

About

Ekansh is a front-end developer with around 10 years of industry experience working with Shopify (Theme and App Development), ReactJS, Vanilla JavaScript (ES5 and up) along with proficient HTML/CSS skills. He can write backend too in Node, PHP and WordPress. He has worked in multiple projects for international clients in finance, learning and eCommerce domains. His strong interpersonal skills has pushed him towards multiple technical as well as cultural core committees in his past organizations. He is also an active participant in social work around him. He has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science with a CGPA of 8.9 from Graphic Era University, Dehradun. Apart from the engineering domain, his inquisitive nature and empathy pushed him into the field of Psychology (General). He also writes online about digital wellbeing and philosophy at https://chunkybyte.medium.com.

Experience

9 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Anatta

2 roles

Lead UI Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

As a Lead UI Engineer,
1. I headed the Vimergy X Anatta engagement to work on creating A/B tests (Convert) and their application development with the aim to improve their Conversion and AOV. We were tasked with running 3 stores across US, EU and UK.
2. I worked on multiple projects helping set the development environment, the deployment strategies and reviewing BRD documents to pick the site architectures (working with Solution Architects).

ConvertA/B testingApplication developmentSite architectureShopifyReactJS

Senior Frontend Developer

Nov 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Remote

As part of this role, I have been:
I was tasked to work on the headless Shopify application for the Hologram Science's product - Phenology. In an extremely short span of 1 month, completed their Shopify application for myphenology.com with the entire Shopping funnel experience. (Top Skills: Shopify 2.0 Liquid Themes, ES6)
Briefly part of the Aventon client team in optimizing their web application to increase their conversion and AOV and providing a process to their development and management across remotely separated teams. This was a headless Shopify application and the theme was built in VueJS. (Top Skills: VueJS, CMS)
Worked for the esteemed client - Dollar Shave Club, a subsidiary of Unilever. We primarily helped them grow in revenue and user base through experimentations (A/B tests) and performance improvements on their website - https://www.dollarshaveclub.com. The experimentations were done through their internal platform as well as in Optimizely. The codebase was in React/React Native and TypeScript using React Testing Library for unit testing and Webpack module builder.

Shopify 2.0 Liquid ThemesES6VueJSCMSReactTypeScript+4

Media.net

Senior UI Developer

Feb 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai, India

My experience in Media.Net is working on various applications under Forbes, primarily on Advisor (US and UK) and Health WordPress application. I primarily work on vanilla JavaScript, VueJS, Tailwind CSS, and jQuery library for front-end development. I even work on the PHP backend on production and responsible for end-to-end delivery on features. I am also responsible for managing the tasks and the deliveries among various members in the projects as part of my responsibilities.

Vanilla JavaScriptVueJSTailwind CSSjQueryPHPJavaScript

Publicis sapient

3 roles

Associate Experience Technology L2

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

My experience as part of this role included creating HTML emails for Altria, working on jQuery applications, and building React/Redux components for a finance application. I even lead a small UI track and automated the HTML email generation workflow in Python for which I was recognized with "Star Tech" in the year 2018 by the project leadership team. I was also pretty active in creating personal projects which were in Progressive Web Apps, Flutter, and React.
Apart from technical work, I was active with the CSR community and organizing events inside the company (which included one musical production - written and co-directed). I was a core team member in Sapient Bangalore's CSR wing for 2 years and a team member in various organizing committees at company as well as project level.

HTMLjQueryReactReduxPythonReactJS

Associate Quality Assurance L1

Jul 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

I was tasked with performing user interface and functionality quality assurance checks of web applications for multiple projects during my time as a Quality Analyst. The projects spanned from Demandware applications in the e-commerce domain to .NET applications in the learning sector. I predominantly worked as a manual tester during this time with basic training in automation tools like Selenium (with Java).
I was accoladed for my work which includes the organization-level "Rookie of the Year 2016" award.

User interface testingSeleniumManual testingQuality Assurance

Junior Associate Quality Assurance

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016 · 5 mos

I interned as a Quality Assurance at Publicis Sapient where I was trained in various industry concepts and technologies that included Agile software development methodologies, Selenium automation testing, creating and executing test cases and suites and understanding different kinds of testing in a large-scale production application project - Sanity, Regression, Whitebox and BlackBox testing, and A/B testing.
During this time I got to learn how an MNC works and understood the flow and distribution of duties inside an organization to ensure its proper functioning.

Agile methodologiesSeleniumTest case execution