Nitish Kumar
- Senior Software Engineer at FalconX
- Bengaluru (India)
- Email: nitish17312@gmail.com
Experience
FalconX, India - Senior Software Engineer Nov 2021 - Present
- Contributed to the development of FalconX-360, a comprehensive platform for digital assets used by biggest institutions.
- Drove the effort to revamp the entire UI stack and design. Significant contribution in migrate the legacy application to set up code standards and revamp application design.
ClearTax, India — Software Engineer III Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
- Leading development in the UI platform team, building common services for products across verticals, responsible for tech outcomes and dev experience.
- Lead tech efforts for consumer mobile app Cleartax Pro. Responsible for architecture, implementations and tech outcomes. Rated 4.4 stars on play store.
- Designed and architectured GST Desktop software while leading a high performance, cross functional team. Responsible for overall tech roadmap, and tech OKRs. Garnered 25k filings on the platform post launch.
- Matured as a leader, driving org wide frontend efforts, hiring, setting up standards around code quality, performance and security practices.
ClearTax, India — Software Engineer II Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
- Architectured and implemented the UI for the initial GST Reconciliation product, currently in use by more than 1000 Enterprises.
- Designed and developed workflow automation for invoice uploads and return filing, setting up metrics, benchmarking, monitoring and alerts, contributing to 30% of overall filing traffic.
- Contributed to and mentored for org wide FE efforts for design system, SSO, etc.
ClearTax, India — Software Engineer I Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
- As a part of the GST frontend team, contributed to building critical features into return preparation, filing and reporting modules.
- Independently built and scaled ClearTax Assistant, an automation tool for filing, resulting in 35k active users and widely positive reviews.
Bang the table, India — Web Developer Jun 2016 - Oct 2017
- Built and migrated a legacy codebase, Places, a community engagement tool.
- Built a new UI and theme for Engagementhq, with Vanilla and ReactJs, integrating into the Ruby on Rails app.
- Built a reporting tool with visualization and power filters, contributing to the internal state management framework.
Skills & tools
- Javascript, Typescript, ReactJs, React Native, Graphql, NodeJs, ElectronJS, Nginx, AWS, , HTML. Python, Flask, CSS, Casperjs, PuppeteerJs, other modern tools and frameworks.
Education
Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi — B.E.(IT) Jul 2012 - Apr 2016
- Activities: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), arduino coding contests, Freelance web development, beginyourstartup.com
Activies/other contributions
- Projects (built/contributed to) Mytyles, Grood, and Criticsnet.
- Volunteer experience: Make a Difference, Youth for Seva
- Talk: “Code sharing between web and desktop apps” in Javascript Meetup Group, Bangalore, meetup #41