Vikas Ranjan

KernelDAO is a decentralized application that supports restaking protocol on ETH, BNB, BTC chains. It is a top liquid restaking protocol with $2B+ TVL. Major responsibilities include: High level designing and development of complex business requirements; discussion with Founders, Product and Marketing teams to understand customer requirements; managing a team of 5 engineers, doing HLD discussions and code reviews; development of decentralized app with staking interface from scratch using Web3 technologies; integration with different wallets (MetaMask, OKX, WalletConnect, etc) via ethers.js and smart contract integrations; created Vaults pages, improved performance and migrated apps to Design System; developed features to Claim, Bridge & Wrap, Swap and exchange tokens; developed a standard UI Design system and user interface for the complete web platform; drove engineering initiatives and improved performance, documentation and practices. Technologies used: NextJS, ReactJS, Wagmi.sh, Etherjs, Rainbow Kit, TanStack Query, TailwindCSS, Storybook, Vitest.

Ownership of the User Compliance module, developing a complex system of compliance guidelines for different nations, user verification and risk identification. My role includes: development and delivering complex technical and business requirements; high level and low level architecture and design; leading a team of 6 FE engineers and driving UI initiatives; improving UI practices; fixing performance and accessibility issues; improving documentation; doing code reviews and mentoring teammates. Technologies used: ReactJS, NextJS, TypeScript, Python, React Native, Redux, JavaScript, Python, AWS, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS.

Leading a team of 12 developers which owns the Menu/Catalog of all restaurants and grocery merchants end to end, facilitating onboarding of new merchants, improving performance, and scalability of the application. Owned the technical architecture of the application, doing code reviews and driving all project deliverables. Major project: Onboarding Grocery Merchants on Zomato platform. Complete development of the Grocery stores onboarding on Zomato platform. Working on technical debts and identifying issues to improve performance and scalability of the application. Led a team of five people for this project, drove project progress and tracking along with cross-team communication. Technologies used: ReactJS, Redux, JavaScript, PHP, NodeJS, Python, AWS, PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS.

Design and development of the User Reviews and Feedback module for different brands and businesses within Expedia, conducting Test and Learn experiments to drive user reviews submission, performance enhancement, bug fixes and training new teammates. Major project: Development and enhancement of hotels Post-Stay Reviews collection. Complete development of the NorthStar Design of the Hotels Post-Stay Review feedback form to drive review submission rate. Development of the Dynamic Review Collection framework which is capable of taking personalized feedback from users, based on their experiences. Technologies used: ReactJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, JAVA, AWS, Spring, MongoDB, MySQL, HTML, CSS.

Worked on the Front-end layer of the tool along with the backend teams to implement new features, fix existing bugs, and UI performance. Major project: Development of Pre-Signature Module of the Sirion Enterprise Application. User interface of the Pre-Signing module of the application where vendors define nature of the work, their relationships with suppliers, details of contracts, clauses, tags and other important contracting entities. Technologies used: JavaScript, AngularJS, JQuery, Java, MySQL, AWS, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap.