Rakesh Kumar
Vetted Talent
Rakesh Kumar
Vetted Talent
Expert full stack developer and AWS-Certified Cloud Practitioner with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. 7+ Years of experience in managing engineering teams, digital transformation, product management, managing start-ups and large corporations, growth and hiring.
- Role
Principal Engineer (JavaScript Full Stack Architect)
- Years of Experience
16 years
Skillsets
- Android - 1 Years
- Microsoft Azure - 4 Years
- Amazon AWS - 8 Years
- Nodejs - 8 Years
- ReactJS or VueJS. - 8 Years
- Express Js - 8 Years
- JAVASCRIPT/TYPESCRIPT - 12 Years
- Nest JS - 5 Years
- Next Js - 5 Years
- Cloud - 7 Years
- Postgres - 4 Years
- GraphQL - 2 Years
- MySQL / NoSQL - 7 Years
- PHP - 4 Years
- Handlebars - 2 Years
- Backend - 8 Years
- Next.js - 5 Years
- FrontEnd - 8 Years
- Nest.js - 4 Years
- Express - 7 Years
- System Design - 7 Years
- Stakeholder Management - 8 Years
- Python - 2 Years
- Html
- AU or UK market - 4 Years
- SaaS/PaaS Platform - 7 Years
- Leadership & Team Scaling - 9 Years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools - 2 Years
- Mean Stack - 9 Years
- Web optimization
- Typescript
- React Native
- OCI
- Jira
- Jenkins
- Agile/Scrum - 7 Years
- Fe architecture
- entrepreneurship
- Css
- Aws
- Entrepreneurship
- Be api design
- Fe architecture
- People management
- Apache
- Postgre SQL - 6 Years
- PostgreSQL - 4 Years
- Spring Boot - 2 Years
- XML - 10 Years
- Agile - 8 Years
- Node.js - 8 Years
- Jenkins - 5 Years
- WordPress - 6 Years
- react - 7 Years
- NextJS - 4 Years
- NestJS - 4 Years
- Redis - 4 Years
- Redis - 4 Years
- AWS - 8 Years
- Cloud Server (Google / AWS) - 6 Years
- Leadership - 7 Years
- TypeScript - 3 Years
- TypeScript - 3 Years
- React Js - 7 Years
- JavaScript - 12 Years
- JavaScript - 12 Years
- MySQL - 5 Years
- MySQL - 5 Years
- Node Js - 7 Years
- ReactJS - 7 Years
- PWA - 5 Years
- HTML - 12 Years
- Nginx - 6 Years
- MicroServices - 7 Years
- Webpack - 6 Years
- CSS - 6 Years
- SASS - 6 Years
- Github - 6 Years
- Bitbucket - 5 Years
- MongoDB - 5 Years
- Azure - 3 Years
- Node Js - 7 Years
- Node - 8 Years
- AJAX - 10 Years
- Docker - 5 Years
- React.js - 7 Years
- iOS - 1 Years
- API Design - 6 Years
- CMS - 5 Years
- Express.js - 7 Years
- Java - 2 Years
- JQuery - 8 Years
Vetted For
11Skills
- Roles & Skills
- Results
- Details
Senior Engineering Lead, FrontendAI Screening- 68%
- Skills assessed :Azure, Python, ANT, CI/CD, Node Js, Tailwind CSS, Chrome Dev Tools, Jest, React Js, Rest APIs, State management
- Score: 61/90
Professional Summary
16Years
- Nov, 2020 - Present4 yr 6 months
Consultant
Aprakrta Solutions Pvt Ltd - Mar, 2019 - Oct, 20201 yr 7 months
Senior Engineering Manager
Jubilant Food Works - Dec, 2017 - Mar, 20191 yr 3 months
Principal Engineering Manager
Freecharge - Apr, 2010 - Aug, 20111 yr 4 months
Sr. UI Developer
Times Internet Ltd. - Aug, 2011 - Aug, 20132 yr
UI Lead
Tavant Technologies - Aug, 2013 - Mar, 20173 yr 7 months
Engineering Development Manager
OLX India - Aug, 2008 - Apr, 20101 yr 8 months
UI Developer
SVAM International Inc - Mar, 2008 - Jul, 2008 4 months
UI Developer
Indian Express - Apr, 2007 - Feb, 2008 10 months
UI Developer / Web Designer
Neuronimbus Software Services Pvt. Ltd.
Applications & Tools Known
jQuery
VSCode
Bitbucket
Github
Jira
Confluence
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Jenkins
AWS
Azure
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Docker
Strapi
Github
Webstorm
Eclipse
SVN
Work History
16Years
Consultant
Aprakrta Solutions Pvt LtdNov, 2020 - Present4 yr 6 months
Working as Consultant to other companies in India and USA (REA India), USA based companies (Gulp Vitamins, Delphi International)
Senior Engineering Manager
Jubilant Food WorksMar, 2019 - Oct, 20201 yr 7 months
Delivered PWA for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh which resulted in improved order conversion rate on mobile web platform from 12% to 18%. InApp integration with PayTm and Google Pay also resulted in improved engagement and conversion.
Principal Engineering Manager
FreechargeDec, 2017 - Mar, 20191 yr 3 months
Data center migration from one AWS region to another and setting up Freecharge mobile/desktop website from scratch without any prior knowledge of the existing infrastructure.
Engineering Development Manager
OLX IndiaAug, 2013 - Mar, 20173 yr 7 months
Developed Chat interface based posting flow for OLX. Led the team to develop PWA for OLX. Re-created posting flow by replacing input field (quick post) with intelligent information detection like location detection, social sign ups, image recognition and auto text population.
UI Lead
Tavant TechnologiesAug, 2011 - Aug, 20132 yr
Led the team to refactored the legacy code base to support modern web browsers as it used to support only IE 7.0 browser thus helped the MLB to not only retain existing clients but also add more clients.
Sr. UI Developer
Times Internet Ltd.Apr, 2010 - Aug, 20111 yr 4 months
Performed user experience survey by interviewing Times of India editors to identify the problems with the existing desktop CMS application used by them to publish news on the website.
UI Developer
SVAM International IncAug, 2008 - Apr, 20101 yr 8 months
Developed frontend for various websites and clients.
UI Developer
Indian ExpressMar, 2008 - Jul, 2008 4 months
Revamped websites for Indian Express News Group.
UI Developer / Web Designer
Neuronimbus Software Services Pvt. Ltd.Apr, 2007 - Feb, 2008 10 months
Developed fronted solutions for domains like E-commerce, Movie Rental, Food Tech, Travel, Ed-tech.
Major Projects
5Projects
Delphi International
Sep, 2023 - Feb, 2024 5 months
- Created the backend architecture for user management, image and video storage on top of Oracle clouds existing cloud services for object storage and user management.
- Setup infra on Oracle Cloud Interface from scratch.
- Created system design for image moderation
- Developed backend apis using nest.js framework.
- Code reviews, mentored junior developers, coding guidelines.
- Collaborated directly with the client taking business requirements and translating them into technical tasks.
Delphi International -
PWA for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Mar, 2019 - Nov, 2019 8 months
- Delivered PWA for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh which resulted in improved order conversion rate on mobile web platform from 12% to 18%
- Designed the architecture for the PWA, boiler plate using next.js framework. Used ATOMIC pattern
- Used 80% of the common code for all the three countries with configurable code for payments, delivery and catalog creation.
- Led devops team in setting up dockerized web application on AWS infrastructure.
- Did code reviews, coding guidelines, mentored developers.
- Collaborated with product owners for feature development request.
Class4Jobs.in
Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20181 yr
Developed a blue collar jobs platform and deployed on AWS cloud.
Class4Jobs.in (Blue collar jobs platform)
Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20181 yr
Developed the job website using Node.js and hosted the same on AWS cloud. I hired a couple of tele-callers who used to reach out to small businesses and shops for any vacancies in small blue collar jobs and post the same on their behalf to create the seed content. But for growth a lot more man power was required. I couldnt get funding, so decided to shut that down after a year.
OLX - Posting flow revamp
Feb, 2015 - Aug, 2015 6 months
- Re-created positing flow by replacing input field (quick post) with intelligent information detection like location detection, social sign ups, image recognition and auto text population. which reduced posting steps from 15-20 to just 4-5 steps and from 10-15 minutes to 1-3 minutes.
- Performed multiple POC's and a/b tests for reducing number of steps for example dynamically generating title of the ad from the description.
- Integrated social sign up
- Integrated image recognization API from which we dynamically populated data to automatically fill the fields related to categories, title of the ad etc.
- Worked with product, design team to create the new UX.
- Mentored junior developers, created coding guidelines, did code reviews.
Education
MCA
Punjab Technical University (2013)
Certifications
AWS
AWS (Dec, 2022)Aws-certified cloud practitioner