Harshit Tripathi
Berlin
Summary
Highly experienced front-end engineer with 9+ years of expertise in developing, testing, and maintaining large-scale web applications. Demonstrated proficiency in seamlessly integrating diverse platforms, tools, languages, and frameworks including Stripe Payment workflow, Google APIs, Algolia, and more. Exhibits exceptional self-management skills for independent projects while also excelling in collaborative team environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Mobile Application Developer
Hotelkit UG
Berlin, Germany
05.2024 - Current
- Presented project progress reports to stakeholders regularly, maintaining transparency throughout the entire development and migration lifecycle.
- Streamlined app development process by collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers.
- Built migration plan and architecture to port web based angular application into React Native application.
- Successfully ported the application within 6 months, well within expected timeline.
- Achieved higher levels of code reusability by creating modular components that could be easily integrated across multiple screens.
- Enhanced user experience by designing and implementing intuitive mobile application for iOS and Android platforms.
Technical Co-founder
Amigo Connect UG
Berlin, Germany
07.2020 - 04.2024
- Built a greenfield mobile application using react-native for native iOS and Android devices
- Increased account creation by 50% by implementing social login using Facebook, Google and Apple accounts
- Integrated Payment workflow using Stripe, allowing users to pay seamlessly in the app, wrote webhooks to confirm transactions and trigger background jobs such as sending order confirmations, payout notification, etc
- Built in-app chat feature using Firebase Firestore real time database
- Kept user engagement high by Implementing Push Notifications
- Created a bot that gets events from several public websites and feeds it to event database
- Implemented Deep-Linking, making it very easy for users to share events so that other users can easily navigate deep within the app (deep-linking)
- Automated app release for roll out on Google Play and Apple store
Freelance Sr Front End Developer
Gripp Inc
Berlin, Germany
08.2023 - 11.2023
- Built architecture and shared layout for different screens of app using Expo Router
- Closely collaborated with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers, backend developers, and product managers, to ensure cohesive and intuitive user experience
- Contributions spanned from initial concept and architecture design through to development, testing, and deployment, adhering to best practices and industry standards
Senior Front End Engineer
MICE Portal GmbH
Berlin, Germany
05.2019 - 12.2022
- Built stable large scale web application using React, Redux and SASS.
- Managed source code effectively using Git branches, pull request reviews, and merge conflict resolutions.
- Enhanced user experience by optimizing website performance and implementing responsive designs.
- Developed reusable UI components using modern JavaScript frameworks like React or Angular, increasing productivity of the entire development team.
- Implemented responsive design principles to ensure optimal display on various devices, improving overall usability for users on both desktops and mobile devices.
- Integrated third-party APIs to enhance functionality and improve overall user experience across multiple platforms.
- Collaborated with UX designers to create seamless user interfaces for web applications.
- Debugged complex cross-browser compatibility issues, ensuring consistent appearance and functionality across all major browsers.
- Ensured high-quality user experiences by rigorously testing application features against diverse user scenarios before deployment.
- Reduced page load time significantly (by 70%) with advanced optimization techniques like lazy loading, minification, and caching strategies.
- Mentored junior developers by providing guidance on best practices and industry standards in front-end development.
- Led front-end development projects from inception to completion, resulting in successful launch of the web application.
- Collaborated closely with back-end developers to integrate RESTful API endpoints into front-end architecture seamlessly.
- Increased usability of the website by creating Airbnb like hotel search and filtering mechanism
- Wrote unit and functional tests using Jest and Enzyme, while mocking external services
- Did research & analysis for key technological decisions with stakeholders and tech team
- Collaborated with a multicultural tech team, working constructively to make the code production ready
- Kept the application bug free with regular monitoring, debugging and deployments
Front End Engineer
Groupify GmbH (now LIVEBUY)
Berlin, Germany
01.2019 - 04.2019
- Increased chat usability by implementing group chat feature using React
- Built UI and UX for chat bubbles, chat input field and chat screen
- Worked closely with Product designer in building pixel perfect UI
- Wrote productive code within the first 2 weeks of starting the project (The project was already complex and at an advanced stage)
- Wrote tests in Cypress, testing the usability of group chat feature
Software Engineer
Tasko Services Ltd
London, United Kingdom
04.2016 - 12.2018
- Built a web application from scratch using the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
- Implemented custom workflow and features that enabled us to increase revenue by 100%
- Built an administration dashboard that included CRM, CMS, and Marketing tools that helped the operational team save significant costs
- Built custom marketing tool that allowed sales and marketing team to send emails to specific users or group of users and kept marketing costs down
- Troubleshoot errors and perform routine maintenance of application, web server, database
- Integrated Paypal and Braintree payment gateway for easy payments and recurring sales
Software Engineer
iThink Infotech
Mumbai, India
08.2014 - 12.2014
- Built algorithm for matching users financial need with banking offers from different banks
- Built an administration dashboard & control panel, for banks to add new products easily
- Collaborated with a team in developing and deploying new features using PHP, jQuery, JS, HTML, CSS etc
Software Engineer
Flixtr
Mumbai, India
07.2013 - 06.2014
- Built a photo sharing website similar to Instagram that received 1.7 million hits in a month (Feb 2014)
- Wrote code in PHP, JavaScript (jQuery)
- Did system design and database design in MySQL
- Server was hosted on a VPS running Ubuntu Linux server running Apache
- Optimized content delivery to ensure high speed delivery and performance
- CDNs were also not that common, so image loading and optimization had to be built in-house
- Wrote custom script to resize and optimize image sizes using ffmpeg
Education
MSc - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA03.2017
Bachelors -
AMT Univeristy
05.2012
Skills
- JavaScript, Typescript
- HTML, CSS, SASS
- React & Redux Toolkit
- Next,js
- Responsive design
- Performance optimization
- React native expertise
- REST API integration
- UI and UX principles
- Jest & Automated testing
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
Languages
English
German
Hobbies and Interests
- Reading - Currently reading The Science of Self-discipline by Peter Hollins
- Playing Chess - solving puzzles and playing bots
- Working out - I try and work out at least 3 days a week, mostly strength training
- Biking - I bike in parks and nature
Timeline
Senior Mobile Application Developer
Hotelkit UG
05.2024 - Current
Freelance Sr Front End Developer
Gripp Inc
08.2023 - 11.2023
Technical Co-founder
Amigo Connect UG
07.2020 - 04.2024
Senior Front End Engineer
MICE Portal GmbH
05.2019 - 12.2022
Front End Engineer
Groupify GmbH (now LIVEBUY)
01.2019 - 04.2019
Software Engineer
Tasko Services Ltd
04.2016 - 12.2018
Software Engineer
iThink Infotech
08.2014 - 12.2014
Software Engineer
Flixtr
07.2013 - 06.2014
MSc - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Purdue University
Bachelors -
AMT Univeristy
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