Harris Jose

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Lead engineer for a collaborative presentation platform.
Expert in building real-time editing experiences.
Significant contributions to payment gateway integrations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Fullstack DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentFintech

Other Skills

ProseMirrorY.jsLLM APIsRustObservabilityLink PreviewsImage OptimizationFront-End ArchitectureCanvasFabric.jsA-Star Search AlgorithmDagreVue.jsAxiosWebpack

About

Results-driven software engineer with over 9 years of experience building apps for the web. Currently a lead fullstack engineer at Chronicle, helping build a modern, collaborative presentation platform. Building with CRDTs, LLMs and, text-editors. Experimenting with add AI capabilities to apps. Previously part of the platform team at Facilio and the Payments and Banking team at Zoho.

Experience

10 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Chronicle

Lead Software Engineer - Founding team

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

Built the core multiplayer editing experience used across the app with ProseMirror and Y.js. Collaborated on and built multiple editor plugins and Y.js utilities as a part of this effort.
Helped build the infra for Rewrite and Remix - LLM powered workflows for generating and editing
content in Chronicle. Worked on integrating LLM APIs into our widgets and text infra, and set up observability using Langfuse.
Designed and built the infrastructure for link previews and embeds in the app.
Built a custom image optimization micro-service in Rust that reduced image load times by 80%.
Designed an extensible base for widgets, defining how interactive widgets like text, images, embeds, and charts are built in Chronicle.
Helped build the freeform canvas from scratch with gesture support and set up the foundations for how users interact with widgets.

ProseMirrorY.jsLLM APIsRustObservabilityLink Previews+3

Facilio: optimizing facilities

Software Developer

Mar 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Core developer in the platform team focussing on front-end architecture. Collaborated on several platform features like Custom Modules, Stateflows, and SLA.
Built a flow chart builder using Canvas & Fabric.js. Implemented the A-Star search algorithm for automatically finding non-conflicting paths and used Dagre for the auto-align functionality.
Added support for building custom, user-defined apps on the Facilio Platform. Built a custom router for generating DB-driven routes for Vue.js components.
Built a HTTP client based on Axios that simplifies CRUD operations, handles de-duplication and caching, and manages data normalization for Facilio Apps.
Optimized the webpack build resulting in 30% smaller JavaScript bundles and around 40% faster dev-builds.
Leads technical documentation efforts to reduce knowledge silos. Mentors new engineers on the frontend team.

Front-End ArchitectureCanvasFabric.jsA-Star Search AlgorithmDagreVue.js+5

Zoho corporation

2 roles

Member Of Technical Staff - Payments & Banking

Jan 2018 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Part of the team who worked on payment gateway and bank integrations for the Finance Suite of products. Collaborated on several key integrations including Razorpay, Paytm, and Apple Pay.
Helped release the connected-banking features in Zoho Books. Part of the team that worked on integrations with ICICI and Standard Chartered.
Championed and led the revamp of payment pages into a modern React-based codebase. Configured code-splitting and lazy loading to improve page load times.

Payment Gateway IntegrationReactCode-SplittingLazy LoadingFintechSoftware Development

Member of Technical Staff - Zoho Checkout

May 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

Primary front-end engineer for Zoho Checkout. DRI for coordinating the ancillary functions for product release like design, marketing, and customer support.
Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Node.js, Docker, and Gitlab. Part of the team that set up a private npm registry that is now used across all front-end teams at Zoho.
Successfully reduced build times for 6+ finance product websites by developing a custom build-and-deploy system using Gulp and Node.js.

CI/CD PipelineNode.jsDockerGitlabGulpSoftware Development+1