Sharad Kalya
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Toptal member since August 18, 2021
Sharad is a front-end-heavy full-stack developer with nine years of experience delivering high-quality web apps and product features for global clients. He specializes in JavaScript, React, and modern front-end architecture, with back-end expertise in Node.js and REST/GraphQL APIs. Sharad has led performance optimization of large-scale apps, integrated AI-driven features, and built reusable components to streamline workflows and enhance user experience.
Portfolio
Experience
- CSS - 8 years
- HTML - 8 years
- React - 5 years
- Redux - 5 years
- ECMAScript (ES6) - 5 years
- Git - 5 years
- JavaScript - 5 years
- GitHub - 5 years
Preferred Environment
React, Redux, ECMAScript (ES6), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Git, Firebase, Material UI, Node.js
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is solve major performance issues by virtualizing changelists, enabling smooth rendering of hundreds of files in a code review platform.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Perforce Software
- Proposed and built AI summaries in code reviews with caching to save tokens, later enhanced to allow multi-line selection. The feature was adopted and shipped as a core product capability.
- Fixed severe performance issues in changelists with 200+ files by applying virtualization, reducing lag, and enabling smooth rendering of large reviews. Tested against more than 40,000 files.
- Refactored review page to enhance user experience by solving jerky scrolling issues caused by excessive event listeners and CSS, improving responsiveness, and addressing key customer pain points.
React Front-end Developer
FarmX Inc.
- Developed an app that allows users to see the specifics of the installed devices in their farms. The solution was to collect data from sensors, which was passed to the front end via API.
- Created charts using the highcharts library, allowing users to view the data graphically. Also worked on enhancements and improvements to the existing charts in the application.
- Contributed to fixing the bundler issues. Replaced the outdated bundler dependency with the new bundler.
UI Specialist
YASH Technologies
- Handled a complex module of large enterprise applications with a 100% success rate at production.
- Helped the team identify many items that improved the overall performance of many components.
- Assisted the production support team in resolving bugs and issues reported outside of the development module.
Software Engineer
Systematix Infotech Pvt
- Developed an app to fully digitize the operations of a large organization based in Maharashtra, India.
- Provided the client with new feature implementation ideas that were highly appreciated.
- Developed and went live in just three months for the first phase.
Associate Software Engineer
Techinfini
- Developed an app that allows users to create custom badges. The badges can be customized using the UI itself.
- Provided a lot of WordPress plugins customization and created a SPA using as part of the WP plugin.
- Resolved many critical bugs from Jira and provided a stable production environment.
Experience
P4 Code Review | Formerly Helix Swarm
https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-swarmApplication for John Deere Dealers
Reporting Tool for John Deere
SPA to Create a Badge Visually
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
University Institute of Technology - Bhopal, India
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, React Redux, Node.js, REST APIs, React Hook Form, Highcharts, React Router
Tools
GitHub, Git, Redux Toolkit, Docker Compose, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, Skype, Slack, Babel, Webpack, Figma
Languages
ECMAScript (ES6), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, Sass, Java, PHP, Less, GraphQL, ES5, SCSS
Frameworks
Redux, Material UI, Jest, Bootstrap, React Native, AngularJS, Spring Boot, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Docker, MacOS, Windows, Firebase, Shopify, WordPress
Paradigms
Agile, UI Design, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Other
User Interface (UI), Front-end, Front-end Development, Software Development, APIs, Data Structures, Algorithms, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), API Integration, Ajax, CSS Preprocessors, ESLint, RESTful Services, Video Streaming, Mobile Web, Code Review, helix core
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