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Harshit Tripathi

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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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, USA
03.2017

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
Harshit Tripathi