Summary
Experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 12+ years in developing and optimizing large-scale cloud-based systems. Adept at debugging, performance tuning, and leading distributed teams to deliver high-impact solutions in a variety of programming languages.
Experiences
- Delivered a core JavaScript framework for 20+ news brands used by billions of customers by leading a cross-functional global team.
- Accomplished a significant reduction in development time of a new brand on-boarding by 80% by developing no-code JavaScript framework.
- Increased monthly lead generation measured by 1 million by building a campaign cloud-based system using React.js and AWS Lambda.
- Reduced news tag lookup time by 30% by optimizing data structures and fine-tuning cloud-based API and Elasticsearch.
- Improved new member on-boarding efficiency by 50% by contributing comprehensive documentation and engineering tutorials of the modules.
- Accomplished a 25% faster merge rate across the repository as measured by reduced review time by implementing coding standards and best practices tools in Python.
- Accomplished support of large number of device activation measured by 10,000 per request by developing a distributed event streaming system on cloud.
- Increased device provisioning speed by 75% faster by restructuring a large service into high-performing distributed APIs using Kafka, GraphQL, and NodeJS.
- Improved real-time performance in system alert resolution time by 35% reduction bymonitoring tools using Grafana and Prometheus to boost system reliability.
- Facilitated collaborative design reviews with peers and stakeholders, achieving a more streamlined process by evaluating and selecting optimal technologies.
- Achieved more success rate of KYC processes by 50% by restructuring the APIs across distributed computing and applying improved data structures and algorithms.
- Achieved more revenue on credit card acquisition, verification and decision systems by multi million dollars by redesigning the credit-card origination system.
- Improved query response time of credit-card applications by 50% by restructuring the cloud-native distributed API on AWS cloud.
- Improved 3D file opening performance of internal software by 50% by enhancing data structures, caching and pre-load settings.
- Accomplished content review and collaboration efficiency by 25% by developing an interactive application for document management with 360-degree navigation.
- Improved code coverage by 30% by adding more corner cases in unit testing.
Open-source Contributions
- Improved system stability of the core framework by 40+ pull requests by collaborating with community members and debugging corner cases.
- Improved code coverage by 40% by enhancing software reliability across Unix/Linux platforms over 6 months.
- Improved the reliability of github actions and saved contributors time by 210 minutes on each PR by fixing flaky unit tests.
- Helped new contributors to kick-start their contributions by 5+ new contributors by triage product and system issues, debugging the JavaScript modules and documenting fixes.
- Improved frontend component rendering speed by a 30% reduction in load times by optimizing Storybook performance.
- Spearhead design consistency and developer productivity by a 60% reduction in need of custom CSS by migrating to Chakra UI.
Leadership, Achievements, and Community Involvement
- Selected as one of the finale participant by competing with 330000 participants by excelling in the global coding competition Code Gladiator hosted by TechGig.
- Expanded expertise in AI-driven technologies by completing a course on Prompt Engineering, focusing on optimizing interactions with large language models and enhancing AI integration for improved user outcomes.
- Received the Fast Learner Award for successfully completing Node.js certification at Gadgeon.
- Assisted KORE Wireless by identifying and reporting few of the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities in public hosted website and led the fixes.
- Written educational content based article on Lodash functionalities. https://medium.com/@jithil/top-10-of-my-favorite-lodash-functions-3b850f094b7c
