Harshwardhan Pauranik

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend-Heavy)
Bengaluru, IN.

About

Senior Software Engineer with over 5 years of expertise in architecting and developing high-performance, scalable user interfaces for EdTech, E-commerce, AI, and conference platforms. Proven ability to lead UI development, mentor junior engineers, and optimize frontend architectures, resulting in significant improvements in user engagement, system performance, and development efficiency. Adept at leveraging modern frameworks like Angular and React to deliver robust, visually consistent, and streamlined user experiences.

Work

Accrete AI
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Senior Software Engineer

Remote, Remote, India

Summary

Directed UI development for the Nebula Social platform, implementing real-time social graph features and significantly increasing user engagement.

Highlights

Directed UI development for the Nebula Social platform, implementing real-time social graphs with Vis.js and Sigma.js that boosted user engagement by 20%.

Mentored 2 junior developers, establishing Angular best practices and improving code quality across modules through regular code reviews and pair programming.

Integrated Datadog for comprehensive observability, reducing UI errors by 30%, and upgraded Angular from v13 to v19, cutting build and deploy times by 35%.

Developed an AI-integrated chat system leveraging OpenAI APIs and implemented a centralized component library with StencilJS for consistent UI/UX across React and Angular projects.

Enhanced social feed performance by 40% through virtual scroll and infinite loading techniques, alongside integrating Jest-based unit tests to improve test coverage and build stability.

Gramophone
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Senior Software Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Summary

Led the Angular stack upgrade, significantly improving application performance and integrating new design systems.

Highlights

Led the Angular stack upgrade from v6 to v12, achieving a 400% performance improvement and integrating updated design systems.

Boosted application load speed by 70% through strategic implementation of lazy loading, WebP images, and JavaScript optimization techniques.

Integrated Mapbox GL for interactive visualizations of farmer activity, which reduced support tickets by 25% due to improved data accessibility.

Speedyy
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Frontend Consultant (Freelance)

Remote, Remote, India

Summary

Led a 3-member team in developing Speedyy's unified mobile and web interface, focusing on scalable UI components and efficient workflow management.

Highlights

Led a 3-member team in the development of Speedyy's unified mobile and web interface.

Built scalable UI components using Angular and React, optimizing delivery across multiple application modules.

Designed and managed workflow plans using Jira, while mentoring the team on UI/UX best practices and component abstraction.

Commutatus
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Product Developer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Summary

Led full-stack development for Brandaid, a virtual conference platform, and contributed to multiple high-impact projects serving millions of users.

Highlights

Led end-to-end development of Brandaid, a virtual conference platform supporting over 1M+ users, building the application from scratch during COVID to significantly improve retention and engagement.

Designed and deployed `hotspot-js`, a custom NPM package for dynamic embedding of interactive hotspots, which reduced frontend coordination efforts by 95%.

Developed a React Storybook-based design system for EXPA CRM (4M+ users), reducing UI rework by 50%, and maintained GitHub Actions workflows to reduce deployment times and errors.

Developed Gehna, a React-based jewelry e-commerce site, implementing advanced filters and modular components, and built feedback modules for the CIVIS civic forum platform.

Education

Amity University, Rajasthan
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science

Courses

Software Design and Architecture

Data Structures and Algorithms

Applied Mathematics

French

Languages

French

Skills

Programming Languages

JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js.

Frontend Frameworks & Libraries

Angular, React, Vue, Flutter, TailwindCSS, StencilJS, Vis.js, Chart.js, Sigma.js.

APIs & Data

GraphQL, REST APIs, MongoDB (NoSQL).

Version Control & DevOps

GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS CI/CD.

Projects

Flutter Chat App

Summary

A Firebase-based messaging application developed to showcase mobile development capabilities.

Jira-Toggl Sync Lambda

Summary

An AWS Lambda function designed to automate time tracking synchronization between Jira and Toggl.