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Varunn Chauhan

Frontend Engineer

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore13 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led cross-platform development for unified web views.
  • Optimized web platform performance with Google Chrome collaboration.
  • Spearheaded migration to cloud-based architecture for e-commerce.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with strong e-commerce and frontend development expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentWeb Application DevelopmentE-commerce

Other Skills

User Experience (UX)Design SystemsFigmaWeb vitalsSoftware Product ManagementKubernetesCloud OptimizationAI StrategyAI toolsPerformance EngineeringEnd-to-End (E2E) testingCypressService Workflow AutomationMonitoringFrontend Architecture

About

Passionate about using the power of tech to change the world! Driving web experience across teams in FairPrice Group.

Experience

13 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Fairprice group

3 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Singapore

  • As a Web Chapter Lead and Principal Software Engineer at FairPrice Group, I lead a chapter of web developers while also driving critical technical initiatives. My focus is on fostering developer growth, aligning technical strategy with business objectives, and delivering impactful engineering solutions.
  • Leadership & Management (Web Chapter Lead):
  • Team Leadership & Development: Leading a Web Chapter focused on professional development, providing coaching and mentorship for web developers.
  • Strategic Alignment: Drove alignment of the Web Chapter's initiatives with FairPrice's digital transformation strategy, emphasizing user engagement and customer satisfaction.
  • Knowledge Sharing & Community: Cultivated a strong engineering community by establishing tech talks, workshops, and mentorship programs to enhance knowledge sharing and skill development.
  • Hiring Optimization: Streamlined the hiring process in collaboration with HR, improving hiring efficiency and reducing time-to-hire.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Led cross-functional engineering initiatives, collaborating with product, design, and business stakeholders across multiple teams.
  • Technical Leadership & Innovation (Principal Software Engineer):
  • Cross-Platform Development: Engineered Project Chimera, a cross-platform framework that accelerated the delivery of unified web views on iOS and Android.
  • AI Strategy & Implementation: Championed the adoption of AI tools like Code Assist to optimize development workflows and reduce cycle times.
  • Cloud Optimization & Efficiency: Optimized Kubernetes services on GCP to improve performance, reduce resource consumption, and achieve cost savings.
  • Scalable Architecture: Architected and implemented scalable solutions, including event-tracking using Segment CDP and a Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
User Experience (UX)Design SystemsFigmaWeb vitalsSoftware Product ManagementKubernetes+4

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Singapore

  • During my tenure as a Staff Software Engineer at FairPrice Group, I played a pivotal role in optimizing the web platform for enhanced performance, efficiency, and reliability. I spearheaded initiatives to improve page speed, automate service workflows, streamline development practices, and strengthen overall platform stability and user experience.
  • Key Highlights:
  • Performance Enhancement: Led a collaboration with the Google Chrome team to significantly elevate Fairprice page speed performance.
  • Service Workflow Automation: Developed a robust invoice generation service, automating the creation of PDF invoices for various order types and substantially reducing manual processing effort.
  • Developer Experience: Led Deployment Preview implementation to streamline feature development workflows, improving cross-functional collaboration across stakeholders and significantly reducing pull request review time.
  • Platform Reliability: Implemented End-to-End (E2E) testing with Cypress and enhanced unit testing coverage, significantly reducing production outages and improving change failure rate for web journeys.
  • Monitoring and User Experience: Streamlined performance monitoring and user experience tracing initiatives for the FairPrice web platform.
Performance EngineeringE-CommerceEnd-to-End (E2E) testingCypressService Workflow AutomationWeb Application Development+1

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2019Aug 2019 · 4 mos · Singapore

  • As a Senior Software Engineer at FairPrice Group, I contributed significantly to the enhancement of their e-commerce capabilities. I played a core role in the complex migration from a legacy system to a modern cloud-based architecture and spearheaded the development of critical frontend infrastructure. My contributions directly enhanced the platform's functionality, performance, security, and provided key insights through detailed analytics implementation.
  • Key Highlights:
  • E-commerce Platform Migration: Led and contributed to the migration of a large-scale B2B/B2C e-commerce platform from IBM WCS to a cloud solution within 8 months.
  • Frontend Architecture: Designed and led the implementation of the FairPrice frontend stack, including release and deployment pipeline setup.
  • Analytics Implementation: Implemented an analytics layer to track user engagement and conversion events.
  • Payment & Transactions: Designed and integrated payment gateway and OTP transaction flow for all front-end applications.
Frontend ArchitectureAnalytics ImplementationPayment Gateway IntegrationE-CommerceWeb Application Development

Myntra

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2018Apr 2019 · 1 yr

  • Designed and implemented an events correlation engine that diagnosed key issues across
  • 300+ services and reduced MTTD for any revenue-related incidents
  • Innovated and contributed a key Node Agent for implementing our in-house APM solution,
  • creating potential savings of ~$500K USD
  • Measured and visualised performance dependencies across 300+ microservices using the
  • in-house ECG dependency mapper, enabling developers to efficiently identify and address
  • service performance impacts
  • Led the creation of an AI bot that helped internal business users identify and analyse
  • incidents, and automatic rollbacks decreasing CFR significantly by 43%
Node.jsPerformance MonitoringAI Bot DevelopmentSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Jul 2015Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Vodafone

Associate Switch Engineer

Nov 2010Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Jammu Area, India · On-site

  • Analysed call processing flows and traffic studies to optimise the millions of calls routed via
  • Vodafone network
  • Performed network modelling and analysed complex data from multiple sources
  • Implemented mobile number portability in J&K state (India) for 10 million Vodafone users

Education

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Master of Technology - MTech — Computer Application

Jan 2013Jan 2015

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