Portrait of Divjot SinghDivjot Singh

such work

April 2020 - Present (6y 3m)Website ↗

Leading the core UI platform team and improving web and app experiences.

Duration:
April 2020 - Present
Management:

Management:

  • Lead a core UI platform team of four very talented developers
  • Planned and delivered quarterly roadmaps with data-driven tasks and output
  • Identified and worked around common problems faced in leading a team (consistent deliverables, team morale, measuring impact, breaking down long running issues, scoping tasks, asynchronous communication, ...).
  • Consecutively won two "Lead without authority" knolskape leadering programmes
Individual Contributions:

Individual Contributions:

  • Published vitadrop.in and annabhumi.com AI assisted brand websites.
  • Developed wondermart app from scratch in 1 month for b2c vertical.
  • Fixed a 2400ms re-rendering linked stutter caused on add to cart action.
  • Reduced react-native codepush bundle size by 20% by optimizing image assets
  • Improved app startup time by 75% (P90), thus improving conversions to 2nd page by 35%.
  • Updated internal react-native+react-native-web framework to use functional components with specialized hooks.
  • Built Year In Review screens for 2020 & 2021.
  • Deployed a webview fallback for react-native screens for quicker resolution during outages.
  • Drove improvements for developer experience initiatives by adding CI checks, pre-commit hooks and dev compiler optimizations.
  • Refactored tightly coupled internal library into individual npm packages in a mono-repo.
  • Used extensive A/B testing to drive higher (3.6 to 4.4) app store ratings using a strategically placed prompt.
  • Revamped udaan's homepage with 60fps animations and better SEO.
  • Collaborated to make find.udaan.com during 2nd wave of covid19 in India to facilitate in finding essential medicines.
  • Worked supporting lazy loading of react-native+react-native-web screens.
  • Worked on an internal framework for creating SSR based React apps (using webpack+node)
  • Worked on adding systematic changes to allow Animated Skeleton Screens for faster perceived performance on React Native and Web App.
  • Revamped Order Details Experience for React Native and Web.

January 2018 - April 2020 (2y 3m)Website ↗

Built payments, platform tooling, and high-scale PWA features. Led launches across Swiggy Go, Stores, checkout, and Genie.

October 2017 - January 2018 (3m)Website ↗

Improved Housing's PWA performance, rendering, and page weight.

June 2015 - October 2017 (2y 4m)Website ↗

Built map-data infrastructure and analysis tooling during a student internship. Shipped Samsung Internet extension, Gaana, and Bixby web experiences.

December 2015 - January 2016 (1m)Website ↗

Built a React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL single-page application.

October 2013 - October 2014 (1y)Website ↗

Co-founded and built product, analytics, and platform integrations.

November 2013 - January 2014 (2m)Website ↗

Built a responsive movie-buzz analytics web application.

And much more, meet up for a ☕ coffee if my work interests you

many travels

Grayscale world map used as the background for interactive pins marking Divjot Singh's travel destinations

much education

Professionally Me

Resume:
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Programming Languages:
C, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES2015+), PHP, Java,
Stacks/Technologies:
(P), ReactJS, Redux, AngularJS, BootStrap, jQuery, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Slim MicroFramework
Databases
PostgreSQL , MySQL , MongoDB
Tools
npm , git , webpack , rollup , babel , Jest , Styleguidist , heroku , grunt , lerna , gulp , bower , Visual Studio Code , Vim , IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse
Other Languages 🤷‍♂️ :
HTML, CSS, XML, YAML, Stylus

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Batch:
2012 - 2016
Performance:
79.48%5th position in entire department (~190 students)
Majored In:
Computer Engineering
Major Achievements:
  • Granted merit scholarship for all four years.
  • Consistently stood in top 10 performing students of the department.
  • Mentored class of 30 in an IEEE NSIT SIG for Web Development and Design
  • Wrote a report on Rapes
  • Successfully completed projects like : MVP Generator | CollNet | CloudKeeper | Student Attendance System, and more...
  • Worked on a research project under Vidhi Khanduja (Assistant Professor) on a database watermarking scheme.
Societies:

St. Mary's School

Batch:
2002- 2012
Board:
CBSE
Performance in 12th:
95.2%
Performance in 10th:
9.8 CGPA ~ 93.1%
Major Achievements:
  • Granted merit scholarship for 3 years: 10th- 12th grades
  • Topped Science department in 12th Grade

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somewhat social