Kiran Varghese

Full Stack Engineer

Kochi, Kerala, India8 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable applications with modern tech stack.
Led a team to deliver 12+ large-scale applications.
Proficient in microservices and frontend architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer specializing in SaaS applications with a focus on microservices and frontend architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Full-stack DevelopmentMicroservicesFrontend ArchitectureJavascriptBackend DevelopmentFrontend Development

Other Skills

AWS EC2Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AntdBack-End Web DevelopmentBootstrapCI/CDCQRSCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)ContentfulCypressDBTData StructuresDebouncing

About

With around 8 years of experience in full-stack development, I specialize in building high-performance, scalable applications using React, Next.js, NestJS, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. As a founding engineer at Wiser Solutions (NGMAP), I set up microservices, architected micro-frontends, and implemented event-driven systems.Previously, I led and scaled a JavaScript team from 1 to 6 engineers at White Rabbit Group, delivering 12+ large-scale applications, optimizing performance, and streamlining development with reusable components. My expertise spans CI/CD automation, ETL pipelines, production deployments, and technical mentorship.I thrive in fast-paced, high-impact environments, driving innovation in microservices, frontend architecture, and backend optimizations. Let’s build something groundbreaking! 🚀

Experience

8 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Wiser solutions, inc.

Full Stack Engineer

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Kochi, Kerala, India · Remote

Founding engineer in the cross-continental product team (NGMAP).
Building MAP @ Wiser.
Set up microservices from scratch using Nx, NestJS, GraphQL & PostgreSQL.
Built micro front-ends using Typescript, React, Redux, Tailwind & Antd.
Written REST APIs, GraphQL queries & mutations for various features.
Learned & implemented Event Driven Design, CQRS, NATS Jetstream, etc.
Configured CI/CD pipelines using Github actions.
Written unit & e2e tests using Jest, RTL, Cypress, and Testcontainers.
Developed ETL scripts (DBT) for sourcing data from different sub-systems.
Integrated code quality utilities and tools in the codebase and GIT repos.
Provided on-call tech support for the production environment.
Managed production deployments and data migrations.

NxNestJSGraphQLPostgreSQLTypescriptReact+17

White rabbit group inc

2 roles

Specialist Engineer

Aug 2022 – Feb 2023 · 6 mos · Hybrid

Architected Frontend Applications (Route design, Redux state design, Segregating UI in to stateful and presentational components, Suggest appropriate React APIs like Refs, useMemo, Portals, etc).
Designed and enforced JavaScript best practices to accelerate delivery.
Setup codebase structure for team and integrated tools/libraries like Eslint, Prettier, Husky, Lint staged, etc to maintain code quality.
Optimized apps with debouncing, throttling, lazy loading, web workers, and memoization, etc.
Developed a custom website builder using Node.Js, Express, and EJS.
Created a custom ERP React app with 40+ screens in just 3 weeks(single-handedly); A critical delivery!
Analyzed software designs, UI designs, and estimated efforts for building large-scale(60+ screens) products.
Conducted code reviews and proposed solutions to optimize code.

JavaScriptReactReduxEslintPrettierHusky+10

Senior Software Engineer

May 2019 – Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Hybrid

Started as the sole Javascript developer; handled everything related to JS.
Scaled to a strong 6-member team by hiring and mentoring teammates.
Developed 12+ large-scale web apps (ECommerce, CRMs, ERPs, and more).
Developed React web apps (Routing, REST APIs, and Redux)
Delivered apps 30% faster by building and using reusable React components.
Built SEO-optimized JAMstack applications using Next.js, Contentful, and GraphQL.
Debugged & resolved critical production issues, improving system reliability.
Conducted technical interviews and recruitment drives.
Managed production deployments of apps on Vercel and AWS EC2s.

ReactReduxREST APIsNext.jsContentfulGraphQL+5

Ignitho technologies

2 roles

Software Developer

Promoted

Dec 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Self-taught backend development (Node.Js, Express, MongoDB, and REST APIs) and worked as a dedicated backend developer.
Developed 5+ REST API backend systems. (Mostly CRUD, File upload, PDF/CSV Generation, real-time chat and monitoring, etc).
Written complex MongoDB aggregation pipelines to restructure and retrieve data in an optimized way.
Integrated JWT Auth, Redis caching, rate limiting, Websockets, encryptions, indexing, clustering, etc in backend services.
Written cron jobs to process email queues, clean stale data, send alerts etc.
Deployed and maintained infrastructure using NGINX, AWS EC2 and Linux.
Mentored interns and organized tech talks & developer events.

Node.JsExpressMongoDBREST APIsJWT AuthRedis+6

Frontend Web Developer

Jun 2017 – Dec 2017 · 6 mos

Developed custom websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript & JQuery.
Designed and maintained the company website.
Developed virtual & augmented reality applications using Unity3D for the innovation lab.

HTMLCSSJavaScriptJQueryUnity3DFrontend Development