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Vedansh Garg, Software Developer in Bengaluru, India
Vedansh Garg

Software Developer in Bengaluru, India

Member since October 31, 2019
Vedansh is a senior software engineer at HackerRank and has 5+ years of experience in writing scalable, maintainable code in Rails and Python. He has built apps that are being used by 9 million+ developers around the world. He strongly believes in test-driven development (TDD) and communicates really well, and has worked with teams of different sizes across the globe. Vedansh also comes with a strong background in freelancing with various startups in the valley.
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Portfolio

  • Devsnest
    Amazon Web Services (AWS), Agile, APIs, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Next.js, React...
  • Casper Sleep Inc - Main
    Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Code Auditing...
  • HackerRank
    Docker, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, MySQL, React, Backbone.js...

Experience

Location

Bengaluru, India

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Visual Studio Code, VS Code, Eclipse, Git, MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is building HackerRank Jobs as a microservice and scaling it to be used by millions of developers.

Employment

  • CEO | CTO

    2020 - 2022
    Devsnest
    • Built and launched the world's largest boot camp with 15K+ Users.
    • Built automated assignments, assessments, and reviews, bringing down a typical boot camp cost from a range of $30,000-$10,000 to $10, a 1000x cost leverage.
    • Built integrations with Discord to launch peer learning. This feature led to our Discord getting increased activity of 30 thousand voice minutes every day and becoming one of the most active servers.
    • Created a virtual college by launching user profiles, Code Sandboxes, and a leaderboard with over 200 problems and projects.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Agile, APIs, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Next.js, React, Azure, React Native, TypeScript, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Landing Pages, Microservices, Architecture, Full-stack, Technical Leadership, Web Development, Scalable Architecture, Software Design, Python, Discord Bots, Machine Learning, Discord, Scraping, Ruby, Back-end Development, JavaScript, Django, PostgreSQL, Database Migration, Django REST Framework, Databases, API Integration, Go, REST APIs, API Architecture, Creative Problem Solving, Front-end, Back-end, Responsive Layout, Calendars, Integration, DocuSign, App Integration, Application Architecture, System Architecture Design, Technical Architecture, Leadership, Contentful, SQL, CI/CD Pipelines, CTO, Twilio, AWS RDS, Telephony, Redis, D3.js, MVC Frameworks, Sidekiq, Ubuntu, NGINX, Ansible, Java, Mailchimp, Mandrill, Web Scraping, DevOps, Docker, Continuous Integration (CI), Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), AWS CloudFormation, Serverless Framework, Startups, RESTful Web Services, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Firebase, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Balsamiq, Vue, Data Scraping, Celery, Azure DevOps, IT Project Management, Cloud Architecture, IT, Back-end Architecture, Express.js, Git, jQuery, Vanilla JS, MySQL

  • Ruby on Rails Developer

    2021 - 2021
    Casper Sleep Inc - Main
    • Managed the fulfillment service of an eCommerce giant, with thousands of warehouses and inventories located in over two countries.
    • Built an EDI microservice to manage eCommerce transactions between different large eCommerce platforms.
    • Improved customer bug tracking to auto-resolve for common data issues. Improved the NPS score and reduced the bug frequency by 72%.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Code Auditing, Heroku, React, React Native, TypeScript, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Microservices Architecture, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microservices, Kubernetes, Architecture, Full-stack, Web Development, Scalable Architecture, Software Design, Machine Learning, Back-end Development, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Database Migration, Django REST Framework, Databases, API Integration, REST APIs, APIs, API Architecture, OpenAI API, Creative Problem Solving, Front-end, Back-end, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Application Architecture, Enterprise, Integration, MuleSoft, App Integration, Oracle Fusion Applications, Application Architecture, System Architecture Design, Technical Architecture, Leadership, MongoDB, SQL, AWS RDS, Redis, D3.js, Auth0, MVC Frameworks, XHTML, Sidekiq, Ubuntu, NGINX, Mailchimp, Python, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, RESTful Web Services, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Stripe Connect, IT Project Management, Cloud Architecture, IT, Back-end Architecture, Git, jQuery, Vanilla JS

  • Senior Software Developer

    2015 - 2020
    HackerRank
    • Led a team of five developers to scale HackerRank's community from 500K developers to 10M+ developers. Added DB indexes, rewrote various APIs, identified slow queries, and added autoscaling rules.
    • Migrated HackerRank monolith from Rails 4 to Rails 5. Migrated two separate microservices from rails 5.0 to rails 6.0.
    • Managed the mail system of HackerRank: scaled it to support 10+ million emails a day, built tools to easily A/B test on different cohorts, and reduced massive costs.
    • Led the development of HackerRank Jobs Microservice, which powers the entire sourcing experience of 10 million candidates and thousands of recruiters.
    • Built the skills microservice from scratch, which maps every action in HackerRank to a skill. Deployed the entire service in two weeks; it serves an average of 1 million actions every day.
    • Created a challenge recommendation engine for HackerRank using item-item collaborative filtering to provide all challenge recommendations, which increased retention by 20%.
    • Built HackerRank contests, where developers worldwide can code and compete simultaneously and view their live ranks on the leaderboard.
    • Developed tools and pipelines to make HackerRank GDPR compliant. Built the initial analytics of the HackerRank pipeline using MongoDB and Redshift with 10-100 million events a day.
    Technologies: Docker, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, MySQL, React, Backbone.js, JavaScript, Sidekiq, Resque, RSpec, Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Technical Hiring, Code Review, Source Code Review, Task Analysis, Interviewing, Python, HTML, Sublime Text, APIs, Full-stack, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Team Management, PostgreSQL, Sideqik, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Code Auditing, Heroku, React Native, TypeScript, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, CSS, Node.js, A/B Testing, Landing Pages, RabbitMQ, Microservices Architecture, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microservices, Kubernetes, Architecture, Technical Leadership, Web Development, Scalable Architecture, Software Design, Discord Bots, Machine Learning, Discord, Scraping, Back-end Development, Django, Database Migration, Django REST Framework, Databases, API Integration, REST APIs, API Architecture, OpenAI API, Creative Problem Solving, Front-end, Back-end, Responsive Layout, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Application Architecture, Enterprise, Integration, App Integration, Distributed Systems, Application Architecture, System Architecture Design, Technical Architecture, Leadership, MongoDB, SQL, CI/CD Pipelines, Twilio, AWS RDS, SaaS, Business to Business (B2B), Telephony, D3.js, MVC Frameworks, XHTML, Ubuntu, NGINX, Ansible, Java, Mailchimp, Mandrill, Web Scraping, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), Serverless Framework, Startups, RESTful Web Services, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Stripe Connect, Firebase, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Balsamiq, Vue, Data Scraping, Celery, IT Project Management, Cloud Architecture, IT, Back-end Architecture, Express.js, PHP, Git, jQuery, Vanilla JS, Stripe Payments, HTML5

Experience

  • Volunteer at NavGurukul
    http://navgurukul.org

    NavGurukul runs a one-year residential program for underprivileged students(who can’t afford a college) to learn to code and get high paying jobs.

    I mentored 80+ students In algorithms and web development, built their content platform and designed and created content that can be consumed effortlessly by high schoolers.

Skills

  • Languages

    C++, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, GraphQL, CoffeeScript, Bash, TypeScript, XHTML, Java, PHP, HTML5, Go

  • Frameworks

    Ruby on Rails (RoR), Django, Django REST Framework, Serverless Framework, Vanilla JS, Express.js, Next.js, React Native

  • Libraries/APIs

    Backbone.js, API Development, JSON API, React, REST APIs, Resque, Sidekiq, Node.js, Stripe Connect, Vue, jQuery, Google APIs, Facebook API, Shopify API, D3.js

  • Tools

    Git, RabbitMQ, NGINX, Ansible, Mailchimp, Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), Balsamiq, Celery, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Auth0, AWS CloudFormation, RSpec, VS Code, Sublime Text

  • Paradigms

    Agile, Test-driven Development (TDD), Microservices Architecture, Microservices, API Architecture, Responsive Layout, Application Architecture, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Back-end Architecture, Enterprise Application Architecture, Azure DevOps, RESTful Development, Agile Software Development, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), MVC Design

  • Platforms

    Docker, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Twilio, Ubuntu, Amazon EC2, Firebase, Heroku, Azure, AWS Lambda, Shopify, MuleSoft, Mandrill, MacOS, Eclipse, Sideqik, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Visual Studio Code, Contentful

  • Storage

    MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Database Migration, Databases, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB

  • Other

    Architecture, Technical Hiring, Code Review, Source Code Review, Task Analysis, Interviewing, APIs, Full-stack, Team Management, Code Auditing, Discord Bots, Integration, CTO, A/B Testing, Landing Pages, Technical Leadership, Web Development, Scalable Architecture, Software Design, Discord, Scraping, Back-end Development, API Integration, Creative Problem Solving, Front-end, Back-end, App Integration, System Architecture Design, Technical Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS RDS, SaaS, Business to Business (B2B), Telephony, MVC Frameworks, Web Scraping, Startups, RESTful Web Services, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Data Scraping, IT Project Management, Cloud Architecture, IT, Plugins, Lambda Functions, Exports, Machine Learning, OpenAI API, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise, Calendars, DocuSign, Oracle Fusion Applications, Distributed Systems, Leadership, Stripe Payments, OAuth, Remote Work

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
    2011 - 2015
    KIET - India

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