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• Senior Frontend Engineer, 

  Dec, 2016 - Present

  Canva is an online graphic design tool used by millions of users daily across 100+ countries, on a mission to democratise design for everyone.

  • Worked on the Print product and it's subsequent rewrite in the new tech stack.

  • Owned the recoloring aspect of the web editor. Involved in a architectural refactor that would work well with simultaneous collaboration.

  • Involved in research, prototyping and subsequent implementation of certain smart editing technologies that involved coming up with algorithms based on heuristic rules.

  • Also got involved in code reviews, mentoring, hiring and giving technology talks in the internal forums.

  • Technologies: ReactJS, TypeScript, Mobx, Jest, WebDriver, Visual regression testing, NodeJS(for certain infra build setup), Protogen.

• Frontend Architect, 

  Apr, 2015 - Nov, 20161 year 7 months

  A Fin-tech startup based in New York, with a mission to digitise the process of due diligence for Investors and Managers.

  • Made technology decisions for the web frontend, defined code conventions and setup frontend build system for CI deployments

  • Developed features as per the business requirements

  • Got involved in product strategy, UI prototyping and designing consistent looking interfaces besides implementing them as reusable UI components in AngularJS

  • Involved in code reviews & hiring

  • Technologies: AngularJS, CoffeeScript, Bootstrap, Grunt, Sketch, Jasmine

• Technical Cofounder, 

  Aug, 2014 - Aug, 20162 years

  Foodraft is an aggregator platform for all the dairy suppliers, which helps people to digitally manage their Milk subscriptions. We had around 10k active monthly subscriptions.

  • I was responsible for building the REST API, implementing UI features, optimising the landing pages, integrating payment gateway, transactional emails & SMS providers.

  • Involved in product strategy, UI prototyping and design

  • Setup a one-click deploy process for consumer, admin and vendor applications using AWS OpsWorks

  • Technologies: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, CoffeeScript, Bootstrap, Grunt, Sketch, AWS OpsWorks

• Frontend Engineer, 

  Mar, 2014 - Mar, 20151 year

  Recruiterbox is an application tracking system to manage the hiring process.

  • Worked primarily on BackboneJS, developed reusable user interface components, shipped features, involved in code reviews and UX design

• Fullstack web developer, 

  Jun, 2012 - Mar, 20141 year 9 months

  Worked on shipping features for a Fintech company PrimeRevenue which was one of our clients based in Atlanta. Involved in shipping features for their products SCiMap & SCiCustomer.

• Core Contributor, 

  Jan, 2015 - Present

  I'm one of the core contributors of Json Resume, an open source initiative to create a JSON-based standard for resumes.

  • Developed a responsive theme Elegant, which won the competition held in November 2014 for the best theme.

  • Wrote a node module theme-utils which provides a useful set of methods for jsonresume theme developers to build themes faster.

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