My tech work and resume
In my 6+ years of professional and more than two years of freelancing career, I’ve worked on lots of projects over the years, here are some of the main ones.
Companies and communities that I have worked and/or started
among other products and clients
IndiaHikes 🔗 indiahikes.com
Senior Frontend Engineer · Apr 2024 → Frontend Tech Lead · Jun 2024 – Present
Joined as a Senior Frontend Engineer focused on performance and cost optimization. Within 2 months, scope expanded to full-stack architectural discussions, leading to the Frontend Tech Lead role. Since then, the focus has been on cutting costs, reviewing architecture, mentoring devs, and automating workflows across the team.
Key contributions
Performance reports and enhancements suggestions for junior teams to address.
E2E test setup using Playwright for the frontend repos
Automating deployments and changelog through GitHub actions
Pushing towards more documentation culture, working in an async way.
On the fun side, during a North India hike, got to stay at one of IndiaHikes' campuses in Manali. IndiaHikes is a company of genuine outdoor experts and it shows in the culture and the quality of work.
Technologies used
Hashnode 🔗 hashnode.com
Software Engineer · Oct 2018 – 2021 → Senior Software Engineer · 2021 – Nov 2023
Joined as one of the early engineers in October 2018, when the platform had just raised its first seed round and operated as a Q&A community. Served as a founding engineer through the full pivot to a blogging platform, growing it from 0 to 60K+ active blogs and 1M+ monthly active users by 2021.
Key contributions
Minimal component libraries in Mobile and Web apps
Old markdown and new Rich text editor
Sourcing content from GitHub, a GitHub integration
In-house analytics system using AWS Kinesis, Mongodb, and Redis
Google Analytics integration to extract reports using Google Analytics Reporting API
Frontend design and architecture with Mobx in old codebase
Project and content migration from Digital Ocean to Vercel
Managing authentication and authorization with JWT and OAuth
Page rules and redirects
Optimizing website for better performance and lighthouse score
Technologies used
Google Developer Groups Hubli
Developers community (2018 - current)
Google Developer Groups Hubli (GDG Hubli) is an open and free community for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. It is a community where people can learn about new technologies, meet other developers, and collaborate on projects. We have reached to more thatn 2500 developers from in and around Hubli since it's inception. We ran a different community known as Devcult, we did the same things there, later we reached out to Google team to start a GDG chapter in Hubli. Since then we shut down Devcult and continued with GDG Hubli.
Reference links
GDG Hubli community and events pageFastpack
Hyper-local delivery service in Hubli, Karnataka, India (2017-2018)
Fastpack started as a need for another product that me and my friends were building, called Citykatha. But since fastpack took off, we focused more on it and continued. We dealt with more than 2500 deliveries within about 10 months including McDonald's, Karnataka Cloth Palace - Hubli,Parviathan Gurukul School and many other companies, schools and individuals. Me and 4 other friends ran this gig, being developers, delivery and customer support folks. We had a great time running this gig, learnt a lot of things, but due to some personal reasons we had to shut it down.
Reference links
Fastpack Facebook page☠️ Some of the shutdown projects
Along the way I have also built and shipped few products that either didn't take off or I had to shut them down due loss of focus.
Citykatha
Started off as a event ticketing platform for local events, turned into an e-commerce platform for local businesses. It was Dukaan back then what it is now. Started off with a great product, then the delivery business (Fastpack) took off and we had to let this go.
GIYA
A bi-weekly newsletter that me and my friend (Supriya - https://omeal.me) started in October 2017. We shipped UI components and explained them in the email. Shut it down do to less focus.
Reference links
GitHub repoPaybackhub
A an affiliate cashback platform. We used to reimburse the amount of affiliate commission that we used to get from the affiliate networks to the users. Got to know later that many platforms are actually against this, so had to shut down.
PinMyGPS
Back then the Google maps was not that great at pointing to homes and floors. So, we built a tool that can point to the exact location of the house or floor. We used to get the location from the user and then we used to pin it on the map and send the link to the user.
Freelance
Built software and electronics projects (2014 - 2017)
This is how I started my whole career in tech. Used to build and sell electronics and software projects to other engineering colleges and companies. Apart from this I freelanced on freelancer.com, several local companies and individuals.