Building one stop place for everything an Indian would need to manage their wealth across all instruments, smartly invest in equity and non equity assets and get help for it.

Principal Software Engineer

First front end engineer, responsible for setting up front end infrastructure and architect multiple web apps.

Built the login functionality for the point of sale app for restaurants, refactored code to resolve bugs, aid future development.

Figured out a way to incrementally refactor the POS app to use Next.js and Tailwind CSS with better written code.


Senior Software Engineer

Front-end Engineer in the hotels team, responsible for revamping both desktop and mobile web in 1.5 years, using React, Redux, Typescript, Styled Components, Node.js. Lead the creation of lot of reusable react hooks, components.

Part of the team that led the effort for a common front end toolkit, Stencil, that is used across projects inside Goibibo. Stencil, was featured — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nojr5VJgHc&t=3698s —  on Google Chrome Developers Youtube Channel. Stencil was also used to power initial versions of Aarogya Setu App. I wrote Stencil's documentation.

Engineered Hotel Details Page Caching Strategy Using Redis Cache for better performance and SEO. Switched to Aerospike during pandemic and brought costs down from 1500 \$ p.m to 150 \$ p.m with acceptable latency.

Built a React Autocomplete hook that solved complex flyout menu use cases across verticals.

Actively worked with other engineers to define tech roadmap

Passionately coached and mentored 'UI' devs to learn Javascript and React. 

Mentored a new joinee and an intern.


Software Engineer

Made a feature on Sindre Sohrus's Refined Twitter chrome extension https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-twitter/pull/83 to preserve chat text if chat message was switched on the old ( pre 2018 ) twitter web.

Fixed a fly out behaviour bug in https://spectrum.chat — https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum/pull/2937

 Made a web poetry editor — https://poetry-editor.now.sh —  using Canvas, React and Draft.js primarily for myself because I was tired of writing poetry on phone with aching thumbs. Some learnings — https://twitter.com/gdadsriver/status/934363273029230592 — from this project about finding the visual center of a closed polygon from Mapbox team

This twitter conversation — https://twitter.com/gdadsriver/status/987725719215144960 —  that lead to the creation of react-foco (https://github.com/nanot1m/react-foco), an outside click and focus manager which works with react portals. I wrote about it in a Smashing Magazine article — https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/outside-focus-click-handler-react-component/

Front-end Engineer in the [Integrated Experience Architecture](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150429006446/en/SapientNitro-Introduces-Groundbreaking-Architecture-to-Accelerate-Digital-Transformation-for-Clients) front end framework team. Helped create the next, better version of the front end framework solution for Adobe Experience Manager and Node.js backends, on top of Backbone.js.

IEA was used for the websites of more than 50 Fortune FMCG companies.

I built code generator for the framework, for clients ( business teams ) to quickly start developing. Helped fix bugs of the older version of framework to support existing business teams. Wrote UI components for Michelin Australia using IEA. Helped multiple teams to ramp up on IEA.

Interactive Developer

Experience writing vanilla and framework JavaScript production code both for web apps and servers using Node.js

Worked in production code bases writing Sass and css-in-js ( styled components ) styles

Experience with building production websites ( for example https://goibibo.com/hotels ) and apps using React.js. Experience in mentoring other people to learn and get better with React.js as well.

Open source contributions in React.js ecosystem.
I frequently write about JavaScript and React. Example: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/outside-focus-click-handler-react-component/

Experience with building production websites ( for example https://goibibo.com/hotels ) and apps using React.js and using Redux as global state management solution and server side rendering sharing state technique. Experience in mentoring other people to learn and get better with it as well.

Principal Software Engineer with 5+ experience.

Arihant Verma

Made a web poetry editor using Canvas, React and Draft.js because I was tired of writing poetry on phone with aching thumbs. Some learnings — https://twitter.com/gdadsriver/status/934363273029230592 — from this project about finding the visual center of a closed polygon from Mapbox team

Poetry Editor

Built a landing page and a custom email lead generation service for Canadian Secondary Academy.

Canadian Secondary Academy

Made a feature on Sindre Sohrus's Refined Twitter chrome extension to preserve chat text if chat message was switched on the old ( pre 2018 ) twitter web. 

Refined Twitter

This twitter conversation — https://twitter.com/gdadsriver/status/987725719215144960 — lead to the creation of react-foco, an outside click and focus manager which works with react portals. I wrote about it in a Smashing Magazine article — https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/03/outside-focus-click-handler-react-component/

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