Nikhil Bhaskar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Nikhil has built highly performant web apps and intuitive digital products for billion-dollar American corporations with great attention to product and UX. He has also mastered the art of product and is comfortable leading teams and pushing code from anywhere, anytime, being a digital nomad since 2018. Nikhil has established himself as the go-to developer in many previous roles and is a builder at heart.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Node.js, Slack, Zoom
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a world-class check-in system used by millions of customers of a billion-dollar American airliner.
Work Experience
Lead Full-stack Engineer
MangoCrisp
- Built a powerful AI recipe generator for elevated eating. It creates one-of-a-kind culinary content with crisp and realistic images from cutting-edge deep-learning libraries.
- Made 500% performance upgrades with geographically distributed edge functions, optimized images, serverless functions, server-side rendering, caching, and rapid load times.
- Architected and coded client-side and server-side components from scratch with a seamless and easy-to-consume REST API while employing state-of-the-art security best practices from AWS.
React/Python Developer
Vayda
- Built the client-side application for a state-of-the-art AI regenerative farming platform from scratch. It featured advancing mapping capabilities, geo-location logic, interactive map layers, and more.
- Architected a web app from the ground up, implementing a robust state management system, routing, UI/UX, performance via code-splitting and caching, and extensive unit testing.
- Led client-side engineering while mastering asynchronous communication with video and written communication to build prototypes quickly.
- Developed API handlers using the FastAPI Python framework, ensuring adequate testing and role-based access control.
Lead React Front-end Developer
Welcome Travel AI Inc
- Led the creation of the number one AI travel web app that saw the creation of over one million itineraries in the initial months of release.
- Led the engineering and project management of client-side affairs and smoothly harnessed remote work tools like Linear and Loom to communicate progress and prototypes with speed.
- Quickened dev speed by 400% by pushing fully working prototypes on an average of 24 hours after discussion, militantly unit-testing pure functions, and directly communicating with creators of open-source libraries used in engineering.
Lead Full-stack Engineer
PyraMetrik
- Single-handedly built a top 10 Product Hunt product from scratch, employing best-in-class client-side and state management and tools like Next.js and Jotai.
- Wrote code to dynamically dissect a stock from over four billion unique angles to perform lightning-fast fundamental analysis using 'compositions.'.
- Made 100x performance improvements, including server-side rendering, client-side pre-rendering, HTTP caching, code-splitting, lazy-loading, image pre-loading, and stated-based caching.
Senior Interview Engineer
Karat
- Conducted over 3,000 highly technical coding assessments on behalf of some of the most prominent tech companies, focusing on front-end development, algorithms, data structures, system design, API design, software architecture, and security.
- Established myself as a top 1% interviewer, frequently receiving performance bonuses and other financial rewards.
- Mastered the remote environment and practices using communication tools like Zoom, Hangouts, and Slack.
- Created highly tailored content to assess the foundational coding skills of candidates worldwide.
Modern JavaScript Developer
Rangle.io
- Developed an interactive flight check-in and booking system for a billion-dollar American airliner used by millions of customers.
- Created and maintained a test-driven front-end architecture with reactive state management patterns and data flows, increasing the development time by over 100%.
- Wrote code with data immutability as the de-facto standard, enabling rapid feature releases, seamless testing, and easy client hand-overs.
Lead Angular and Java Front-end Developer
Alchemy Systems
- Developed a performance management app for a billion-dollar restaurant to create interactive quizzes, manage schedules, and conduct company-wide searches. Served in 83 countries, over 15,000 locations, and 25 languages.
- Established myself as the number one front-end developer on the team, pushing highly-requested features in a timely fashion and using Jira to track status.
- Created a multi-faceted Twitter-style newsfeed with interactive quizzes and dynamic content and employed lazy-loading and caching, increasing page load time and performance by over 100%.
Lead PHP and JavaScript Engineer
Style Minions
- Developed a one-stop fashion app to discover clothes and accessories from popular brands. A cross-platform web app that aggregates, maps, and reduces fashion-related survey data into a user-friendly dashboard consisting of pie charts and bar graphs.
- Recognized by RyersonU’s startup incubator as a top 10 app in their fashion zone.
- Increased the fluidity of image cropping and the speed of page loads.
Full-stack Developer
Paytm
- Developed a fraud monitoring web application to highlight instances of strange credit card transactions.
- Performed periodic data migrations and managed complex database schemas with Django's ORM.
- Designed and built an intuitive user interface to enable accessible notices of fraudulent activity.
Experience
MangoCrisp
PyraMetrik
https://pyrametrik.comOver 4 billion unique angles to perform lightning-fast stock analysis. Each angle is called a 'composition.' A composition is a collection of specific metrics painting a particular picture of a stock.
I was tasked with performance optimizations, which included server-side rendering, client-side pre-rendering, HTTP caching, code-splitting, lazy-loading, image pre-loading, and stated-based caching that made load times and UX up to 100x faster.
Open-source Blockchain Ethereum Starter App
https://github.com/Nikhil22/angular-truffle-starter-dappTruffle Quick Start Guide
https://www.packtpub.com/product/truffle-quick-start-guide/9781789132540It starts with the basics of Truffle, briefly explaining how it integrates Solidity and Web3. Then, it goes into migration, testing, and integrating Truffle with the use of popular JavaScript frameworks. Lastly, it covers shipping your decentralized application and packaging it into a product.
The goal is for the reader to be able to write smart contracts and build decentralized applications with Truffle on Ethereum blockchains.
CryptoTrend
https://www.producthunt.com/products/cryptotrend#cryptotrendPython Vehicle Detection
https://github.com/Nikhil22/python-vehicle-detectionMore details in the README.
Skills
Languages
SQL, Python 3, JavaScript, CSS, TypeScript, HTML, Python, JavaScript 6, Sass, CSS3, Java, HTML5, PHP, GraphQL, Solidity, C++, JavaScript 5
Frameworks
Angular, Redux, Jest, Express.js, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Material UI, Next.js, Spring Boot, Tailwind CSS, Tachyons CSS, Laravel, Flask, Cypress, Django, Alembic, Swagger, OAuth 2
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, Redux-Saga, Vue, Stripe API, Stripe Connect API, Stripe, React Redux, REST APIs, Mapbox API, Flexbox, D3.js, Django ORM, NumPy, Pandas, Sockets, PyTorch, OpenAPI, SQLAlchemy
Tools
Slack, Stripe Checkout, Jira, Git, GitHub, Webpack, GitLab, Front-end Build Tools, Google Sheets, Excel 2016, Figma, Sentry, Mongoose, Zoom, Trello, IPython Notebook, Atom, Vim Text Editor, Amazon EBS, AWS Fargate, Docker Hub, Docker Compose, GIS, Asana
Paradigms
Test-driven Development (TDD), Reactive Programming, UI Design, Web UX Design, Agile, Scrum, Unit Testing, MEAN Stack, REST, Responsive Layout, Functional Programming, Manual Testing, DevOps, B2B, Mobile Development, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Web App Design, UX Design, Responsive, Data Science, Microservices, Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
Platforms
Mapbox, Web, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vercel, AWS Lambda, Heroku, WordPress, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Ethereum, Blockchain, Jupyter Notebook, Amazon EC2, Zendesk
Industry Expertise
Project Management, Web Design
Other
Algorithms, Data Structures, Front-end Architecture, Front-end Development, Front-end, Responsive UI, Product Management, Full-stack, OOP Designs, Web App UX, Web Development, Web App Development, Manual QA, Full-stack Development, WebSockets, React Query, Writing & Editing, Application State Management, User Interface (UI), Slate.js, Web Applications, API Integration, APIs, Dashboards, Data Visualization, CTO, Architecture, Technical Leadership, Web Scraping, Scraping, Widgets, Mapbox SDK, Dashboard Development, MERN Stack, Design, Technical Writing, Chatbots, Lead Generation, Consulting, CRM Systems, Leadership, ChatGPT, OpenAI GPT-3 API, OpenAI GPT-4 API, CSS3 Animation, Software Architecture, User Experience (UX), Technical Documentation, Technical Architecture, Project Estimation, IT Project Management, Enterprise SaaS, Software, Software Development, Digital Transformation, SaaS, Startups, Early-stage Startups, Responsive Web Apps, Web Usability, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Product Strategy, Material Design, Web UX, Redux Toolkit, Documentation, OpenAI, RESTful Services, System Design, Code Review, Quality Assurance (QA), API Design, Code Splitting, Vite, SEO Tools, Investments, Apollo, Progressive Web Applications (PWA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Venture Capital, Venture Funding, Fundraising, CI/CD Pipelines, Storybook, Front-end Design, Data, Web App UI, Web UI, Cryptography, Cars, Server-side Rendering (SSR), OpenAI API, Large Language Models (LLMs), Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Web Consulting, Caching, HTTP, Web Marketing, Deep Learning, PWA, LangChain, Performance, Deep Neural Networks, Web Project Management, Data Engineering, Computer Vision, Amazon RDS, Containers, FastAPI, Torch, Poetry, PostgreSQL 9, App UI, JSON REST APIs
Storage
Databases, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Cache, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EFS, PostgreSQL 10
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
University of Waterloo - Ontario, Canada
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Blockchain and Ethereum Developer
ConsenSys
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