Kay Arora
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Auroville, India
Toptal member since August 3, 2022
Kay is a highly motivated full-stack developer with a knack for effective communication and elegant, robust architecture. She is experienced in serverless or edge programming, leveraging multiple back-end databases, such as PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch, complex frameworks, and libraries like React, Yjs, and D3.js on the front end, and AWS systems. Kay is driven to learn and apply cutting-edge technologies, implementing solutions and enhancing creativity and web performance.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
TypeScript, Node.js, React, JavaScript, Bash, ECMAScript (ES6), Puppeteer, Next.js, APIs, Web Accessibility
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a custom fundraising platform, enabling administrators and fundraisers to create and track campaigns.
Work Experience
Next.js and Yjs Developer (via Toptal)
Scarlet AI
- Developed a custom library for syncing multi-user code in real time using Yjs and Zustand for React/Next.js.
- Refactored the app code to improve performance and reliability.
- Implemented video functionality and multi-user editing of rich text by developing custom components built on stable libraries (Tiptap, Remotion).
Full-stack Developer
UWC Mahindra College
- Developed a custom fundraising platform that enabled administrators and fundraisers to create and track campaigns. It also allowed patrons such as alumni, parents, and philanthropists worldwide to make donations on the platform.
- Oversaw the development of the college's adoption of Salesforce as an administration and alumni management tool.
- Developed the solutions with Tech Mahindra's CSR wing to create an API gateway for quick and compliant reporting of donations and international money transfers.
Experience
Nested Drag and Drop with Scroll and Animation
https://kff8dh.csb.appMy solution is inspired by React-beautiful-dnd and its smooth scroll and animations, but with the added feature of nesting and moving containers at an arbitrary depth. It is an original framework that implements a custom API with fast 2D spatial indexing and native DOM interactions. It demonstrates scrollable and nesting containers with smooth native animations and wide application in the interfaces based on task, note, and tree.
Education
Coursework Toward Master's Degree in Digital Humanities
University of Cologne - Cologne, Germany
Bachelor's Degree in Cinematography and Film
Oberlin College - Oberlin, Ohio, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, Puppeteer, React Query
Tools
AWS SDK, Git, Prisma, Shadcn
Languages
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, GraphQL, ECMAScript (ES6), XML, Bash
Paradigms
API Architecture, Serverless Architecture, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Storage
JSON, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, MySQL
Frameworks
Next.js, Electron, Tailwind CSS, Angular
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, Docker
Other
Writing & Editing, APIs, Web Scraping, Technical Writing, Chrome Extensions, Front-end Architecture, User Experience (UX), Software Architecture, Performance, Web Accessibility, Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA), Serverless, Video Editing, UI Animation, Drag & Drop, Statistics, User Interface (UI), Data Communication, Data Analysis, Full-stack, CRDT, Chatbots, Front-end, Tiptap, Remotion
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