Kumar Gaurav
6 years of expertise in building software in various domains at scale, with a year involved in Technical Entrepreneurship. I have sound understanding of web-technologies.f
Looking for challenging opportunities in Software Engineering,
preferbly with ownership of product and full-stack developer role.
I am quite adaptable with software tools. I understand the product and business values of software, and have good experience of leading teams in past.
Professional Experience (6 years)
Technical Entrepreneurship
Harnessing my interest in Entrepreneurship, I started building my own company full time since January 2023
Twople
- Twople was a marketplace of activites, events and expereiences for working busy couples who find it exhausting to go through never-ending list of suggestions on social medias and search platforms to find one simple thing to do
Business Metrics # Monthly Active Users (MAU) 500 Monthly Orders Placed ~40 Users on waitlist 3500+
Stealth Startup
Twople paved way for a few good pivots. I worked on a couple of those ideas afterwards, including -
- Quido: OneStop center for afterschool activities for children
- BeMyGuest: Neighbourly activities in a fun and safe environment.
ProspectoAI
- Outbound sales are usually very low efficient means of sales. A ROI of 3-5% conversion would be considered good.
- A good chunk of time by salesperson goes into reaching out to people, usually with a common drafted template, and following up with them.
- We came up with a few tools, Automating and using AI to make this work easier.
- We could cut down the time by almost 50% to reach this ROI.
- Next goal was to be able to increase the ROI, ideally by 2-3% at least.
Senior Software Engineer
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
Quizizz
- Established experimentation capabilities with the product pricing
- Worked on splitting Quizizz app into micro-services for smooth scaling and development
- Streamlined "Game-Settings" for uniformity and experimentations
- Designed & upgraded "Reports" section of Quiz for future developments
Quiph Media
- Overlooked all things tech while pivoting from Qtalk to SuperShare
- Developed iOS using ReactNative for the SuperShare App
- Ensured quality enhancement and feature addition to the SuperShare web app using NuxtJs framework
- Set up a system to test crucial user-flows in an automated environment. The tests ran every hour or everyday based on their config.
Software Engineer
Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
Quinbay Technologies
- Designed and Developed BlibliPlay, a video-streaming service with live-streams, interactions and chat options from scratch
- Took the responsibility for Revamping Search & Recommendation architecture for frontend. Upgraded build tools, introduced Unit testing and established monitoring system.
- Worked with BliMart team for taking up business requirements with very short time span due to pandemic situations. Used D3JS extensively to generate graphs with 5+ simultaneous plots.
- Organised various tech sessions, review sessions and training of new hires in JavaScript. Interviewed 20+ candidates for various senior positions.
Skillsets & Tools
I have worked with quite a few tools, and I don't hesitate to pickup a new tool if it's efficient and useful for solving the problem in hand.
Enlisting here some of them-
- HTML, CSS, TailwindCSS, SASS/SCSS
- JavaScript, TS, ES6+, ESnext
- VueJS, NuxtJS, ReactJS
- ReactNative, Flutter
- Node, Deno, ExpressJS,
- MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch
- Redis, Kafka, WebSockets
- GoLang, Python (decent), Rust (basics)
- Firebase, Supabase, RealTime-Database
- DenoDeploy, Vercel, AWS, Azure, GCP