Vikram S.

Vikram S.

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.

Frontend

Backend

Database

DevOps

QA & Testing

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Full Stack Developer
2018 - Present (7 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.

Showcase

Sole Designer/Developer - Topper
Sole Designer/Developer - Topper
  • A minimalist news aggregator collecting news from Reddit, Hacker News, and Pocketcasts.

  • It's a basic project focused on delivering news items.

  • The project is developed by a single designer/developer.

Personal Site & Blog
Personal Site & Blog
  • A platform for managing work experience, projects, education, and personal thoughts.

  • It functions as a central hub for industry trends and insights.

  • The site is designed as a personal blog.

Architect/Lead Developer - Willing.com Web Application
Architect/Lead Developer - Willing.com Web Application
  • Willing.com is an online tool for estate planning documents.

  • The developer is responsible for the design and deployment of the app frontend.

  • The project involves all tasks related to the app's functionality.

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)