Kanishka Malhotra

VP of Engineering

London, England, United Kingdom12 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in front-end technologies and user experience.
  • Proven track record in high-availability frameworks.
  • Strong leadership in mentoring and team collaboration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Frontend Engineer specializing in Fintech and E-commerce solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

React.jsUser Experience (ux)Web ApplicationsE-commerceWeb Development

Other Skills

AJAXAccessibilityAngularJSBabel.jsC++CSSCSS3Client-side developmentCoding StandardsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Data StructuresDockerEvent Driven ProgrammingFace detectionFinancial Services

About

I specialize in creating seamless user experiences through clean, efficient, and scalable code. I have a deep understanding of front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Redux. I have a proven track record of delivering high-quality products to organizations of all sizes. I am a strategic thinker and problem-solver, with the ability to lead a team and collaborate with designers, product managers, and back-end engineers to deliver innovative solutions that exceed expectations. Technical prowess ------------------------ JavaScript frameworks/libraries: React, Redux, Typescript, Node, Express, AngularJS Styling: CSS-in-JS, Styled components, SASS, LESS Component libraries: Material UI, Ant Design, Semantic UI React, custom libraries Testing frameworks: Jest, Enzyme, Mocha, Jasmine, cross-device testing and debugging tools Tooling: Babel, Webpack, Rollup, Yarn, npm, ESLint, Gulp, Grunt Analytics: Adobe Target, Google Analytics CI/CD: GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes Cloud providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure Version control systems: Git, SVN Databases: MongoDB, MySQL Other highlights: Web accessibility, Web security, Web APIs, REST, WebSockets, UX Research, Information architecture, Project estimations, Requirements gathering, Prototyping and templating

Experience

12 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Jefferies

Vice President - Software Engineering

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Goldman sachs

Vice President - Software Engineering

Oct 2021Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading a new high-availability front-end framework using cutting-edge technologies like React, Redux Toolkit, Javascript and Typescript.
  • Decomposing monolith into service-based architecture with a self-service module, reducing time to live from 2 weeks to ~5 seconds for customisations.
  • Creating roadmaps for multiple applications by prioritising business requirements, estimating work, establishing milestones, and then breaking them down into high-level tasks for allocation.
  • Working closely with the industry’s top trade desks, risk stakeholders and best-in-class engineers to build and standardise user interfaces for global user workflows.
  • Managing multiple projects/regions across engineering and product with excellent collaboration and communication skills.
  • Coaching team members, authoring code quality standards, engineering best practices, and onboarding new engineers.
User Experience (UX)Information ArchitectureReact.jsFront-end Engineering

Publicis sapient

5 roles

Senior Associate Experience Technology L2

Aug 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Design the architectural framework as well as identify, analyze, evaluate and evangelize new
  • or existing technologies and tools needed to support the infrastructure.
  • Developed a breakthrough solution by implementing client-side face detection and
  • recognition for online ID verification.
  • Mentor engineering team members in their overall career growth, skills development, and
  • technical competency.
  • Work closely with Product, Design and Engineering agile teams to provide high level
  • estimates for business cases, product release and development schedules.
User Experience (UX)React.jsFront-end Engineering

Senior Associate Experience Technology L2

Promoted

Apr 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

Senior Associate Experience Technology L1

Promoted

Apr 2018Mar 2019 · 11 mos

  • Developed rich, interactive web applications over REST or WebSockets using advanced JavaScript.
  • Increased performance & revenue: Reduced load times for product pages to under 3.5s on
  • mobile devices resulting in increased conversion ratio and major growth in revenue.
  • Improve code quality standards by defining and deploying best practices in unit and
  • end-to-end testing frameworks.
Web ApplicationsFinancial ServicesE-commerceEvent Driven Programming

Associate Experience Technology L2

Sep 2017Mar 2018 · 6 mos

Associate Experience Technology L2

Jun 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that produce visual elements of the application.
  • Write reusable code and libraries (with matching documentation) to a standard which makes it quick and easy to maintain.
  • Work with the UI/UX designers and take an active role on both design and technical implementation to define how the application looks as well as how it works.
  • Optimize complex web applications for maximum speed and scalability.

Pulp strategy

Sr. UI Developer

Nov 2015Jun 2016 · 7 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Led, mentored, and trained other frontend developers in order to develop a strong, best-in-class front-end development team.
  • Developed rich user interfaces in compliance with design specifications, style guidelines and established usability standards.
  • Provided resolution to complex business problems related to e-commerce domain.
User Experience (UX)E-commerceWeb DevelopmentResponsive Web Design

Sdg corporation

Associate Software Engineer

May 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Solely developed, managed, deployed and maintained adaptive web applications/portals and their administrative consoles in response to business needs.
  • Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
  • Wrote highly maintainable, solid front-end code for ~30 medium and large-scale web applications and portals.
  • Mentored co-workers increasing the efficiency and technical know-how of the entire web development team.

Confederation of indian industry

Project Associate (Technology)

Jul 2013Apr 2014 · 9 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Assisted senior executives in execution of Technology summits and events held countrywide.
  • Achieved target audience with organic participation for every event with the team.
  • Planned a strategy to reach out to CEOs, MDs of different companies seeking endorsements and sponsorships.
  • Collated countrywide company database from various technology events.
Web ApplicationsAngularJSAJAXHTML5

Education

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony, New Delhi

Jan 1995Jan 2009

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