Vikram S.

Vikram S.

Senior Software Engineer

New York, United States of America
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About Me

I am an expert Full Stack Engineer with years of practical experience working with numerous tech Startups on their quality assurance processes; iterating and delivering quality web applications/solutions on time for clients. I have team lead experience, an avid enthusiast of new technologies, a passion to solve problems, and not just writing highly performant code for clients.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Full Stack Developer
2018 - Present (6 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

Willing Inc
Willing Inc
Lead Developer
2016 - 2018 (2 years)
  • Provided technical direction, expertise and leadership on all developments within the company, reporting directly to the CEO on all projects.

  • Offered guidance and expertise for the planning, designing and re-implementation of entire Willing.com app frontend written in Angular 4.

  • Efficiently implemented extensible software designs for rapid feature iteration; by building a continuous integration pipeline and release procedure for the new Willing app.

Doberman Design
Doberman Design
Senior Design Technologist
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
New York, United States
  • Acted as the sole developer on projects and as technical support point for Doberman's US clients.

  • Efficiently maintained and updated the in-store Starbucks wifi portal page for 20,000 stores and implemented mobile app prototypes on Google and Amazon for Doberman.

  • Regularly translated client functional requirements into technical implementations and translated design mock-ups into functioning sites for clients.

Sailthru
Sailthru
Software Engineer
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
New York, United States
  • Oversaw the efficient refactoring, debugging and implementation of new features for Sailthru's backend applications.

  • Provided technical expertise for the rewriting of Sailthru’s data access layer, allowing Sailthru to scale its MongoDB database past 500 million documents.

  • Developed a fast, efficient and parallelizable document update system in PHP to update 500 million Mongo documents as a prerequisite for rolling out new key features.

ZocDoc
ZocDoc
Senior Automation Engineer
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
  • Optimally maintained and updated the in-house distributed Selenium testing infrastructure responsible for running 600 tests every 30 minutes for ZocDoc.

  • Effectively improved the performance of a massive parallel custom Selenium grid framework from running 200 tests every hour to 600 tests every ½ hour.

  • Developed 150 automated tests using Selenum, C#, testing best practices and helped in debugging failing Selenium tests for the client.

Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies
Serverside QA Engineer
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
Palo Alto, United States
  • Provided technical consultancy, support and QA for Palantir's new features on it's Finance Java Backend solution.

  • Successfully designed, developed and implemented the first automation framework for Palantir Finance’s backend tests using Python.

  • Efficiently automated regression testing nf the Palantir Configuration Server.

Portfolio

Sole Designer/Developer - Topper
Sole Designer/Developer - Topper

This is a minimal news aggregator of news items from Reddit, Hacker News and Pocketcasts.

Personal Site & Blog
Personal Site & Blog

This site serves as a one-stop board for information on previous work experience, projects, education, and personal thoughts on major industry trends.

Architect/Lead Developer - Willing.com Web Application
Architect/Lead Developer - Willing.com Web Application

Willing.com is an online tool for making state-specific estate planning documents like wills, trusts, deeds, and living wills for clients. Led all tasks for the design and deployment of the entire app frontend.

Education

Education
BSc. Computer Science
Columbia University
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Education
MSc. Philosophy
London School of Economics
2007 - 2008 (1 year)
Education
B.A Philosophy
Brown University
2002 - 2006 (4 years)