Shashank Agarwal

shashankc1705@gmail.com | Github | Linkedin | Gurgaon, Haryana

Summary

  • 2+ years of work experience in software development
  • Hands-on experience in frontend, backend and android
  • Proficient in React, Redux, TypeScript and node.js + Express

Work Experience

Flipkart

UI Engineer-1 [08/2024 - present]

  • Maintained and enhanced spreadsheet library FortuneSheet, resulting in 24% increase in weekly downloads. Managed code reviews, resolved issues, and upheld coding standards and license compliance.
  • Reduce latency from 4.5s to 0.8s on edit operations by optimizations in formula parser. Resulted 20% bump in fps in large sheets optimizations in cell-text handling.

Snaptrude

Algorithms Engineer [08/2023 - 08/2024]

  • Utilized knowledge of graphics programming and WebGL to solve mathematical and algorithmic problems for 20,000 users.
  • Developed Archicad Parser: Worked in the development of a C++ plugin used to export Snaptrude’s models into Archicad. Parsed using Node.js server. Used Amazon Cloudfront (CDN) and S3 for storing geometry data. Fixed major bugs, added support for furniture export.
  • Delete storey operation: Solo developer in a feature to delete Snaptrude storeys. Developed frontend in Typescript, React and Redux; and backend APIs in Node.js server. Used linked list for managing storeys and Command design pattern to implement undo-redo operations on queue data structure. Supported with unit tests.
  • Revamped Snaptrude Manager: Improved Snaptrude’s desktop application + plugin used for interoperability with Autodesk Revit. Developed user interface in React and Redux, and supporting RESTful APIs in Django backend. Migrated plugin code from Python to C#.
  • Optimizations: Implemented series of optimizations in mongoDB for slow server response by implementing bulkWrite. Reduced Revit export JSON file size by 50% and made API enhancements, saving 2 minutes of AWS S3 bucket export time for large projects.

Testbook

Android Developer [02/2023 - 08/2023]

  • Maintained and developed features in Kotlin for Testbook app for 5 million active users in the Android team.
  • Drove 14.7% revenue growth through Testbook Pass Pro by developing UI elements in Compose and XML, integrating analytics events to WebEngage and Firebase, deep links, and improving UX.
  • Increased book sales by 272% within a month by developing Smartbooks e‑commerce module ‑ implemented Jetpack Compose UI components, implementing MVVM architecture for the Book Details page, integration and consuming RESTful API in JSON and introducing pin code validation feature.
  • Orchestrated an A/B testing on all users by utilizing Firebase Engage and triggering 9 events across 144 locations within the app, revealing a significant 12% difference in purchase clicks and strengthening product decisions.
  • Troubleshooted bugs and crashes in Juspay payment gateway integration, resulting in a substantial improvement in the overall user experience and successful transactions.

Projects

  • FortuneExcel - an .xlsx import/export plugin for FortuneSheet with over 1.7k downloads on npm. Built on Typescript and React.
  • Multiplayer Snake Game - Developed and deployed a 2‐player Snake game in Javasript. Supports customizable snake colors, personal room creation, live score tracking, and rematch functionality.

Achievements

  • Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure (NCIIPC) - Acknowledged by National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre, India (NCIIPC) for identifying and reporting a directory traversal attack on MPEDA’s website, which exposed Aadhaar card information of 100+ Indian citizens.

Education

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida [2019-2023]
B.Tech in Information Technology (CGPA: 8.5)

Skills

JavaScript TypeScript React React Native Redux Jest Web Security Web Sockets Electron JWT Webpack Express Node.js HTML CSS Git OOPS Design Patterns Babylon.js three.js