Development of a highly performant and responsive e-commerce application using modern tools and technologies to tackle the issues faced by legacy application

• Creating complex user interfaces in react, improving website traffic by 25%

• Monitored and fixed performance bottlenecks caused due to slow database queries, improving page load time from 3s to <1s

• Creating reusable widgets, hooks and constantly applying best practices to improve the development speed and efficiency

• Audited GraphQL API and fixed security vulnerabilities to prevent misuse of user data

Maintaining and automating the existing platform of a Multinational Investment Banking firm

2015-present

• Automated the process of change release management to improve team’s productivity

• Developed custom scheduled scripts to remove duplicate test cases, thereby improving application’s performance

• Implemented code that automates the process of adding custom client functions to reduce human effort

• Played an active role in making suggestions to improve application’s user experience

• Established backend database connectivity to MySQL using PHP: PDO, enabling flexibility to migrate between databases

• Implemented application’s design specifications using HTML, CSS and made it responsive using the Bootstrap framework

• Reduced application errors by performing input validation using JavaScript

• Responsible for communicating with business team to gather requirements and make design decisions

• Developed RESTful web services in Python for storing and retrieving data into MySQL database instance on Amazon RDS

• Implemented background services to backup images to Amazon S3, providing the application with an additional value of working in offline mode

• Recommended and implemented tab layout and horizontal scroll view, enriching the application’s user experience

• Monitored the performance of the application using TestFairy and conveyed results to the team.