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Arpita Kar

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Summary

Front-End Developer with over 10 years of experience in designing and developing responsive, scalable, and cross-platform web applications. Specialized in building rich user interfaces using React.js, TypeScript, and Next.js, with expertise in implementing modern architectures like Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) for seamless integration between frontend and APIs.

Proficient in developing Single Page Applications (SPAs) and component-based UIs, with strong knowledge of React Hooks, Redux, React Router, and Context API. Adept at integrating RESTful services and managing application state in complex, data-driven environments.

Hands-on experience in front-end development for auto insurance applications, contributing to production-grade systems used across multiple U.S. states. Skilled in creating accessible, mobile-friendly interfaces using HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Bootstrap, and Material UI.

Comfortable working across the full software development lifecycle, with experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud services (AWS). Strong background in unit testing with Jest, Enzyme, and Jasmine, and experienced in using tools like JIRA, Chrome DevTools, and Visual Studio Code to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Front End Developer

HTC Global Services
02.2022 - Current

Client - The General

  • Contributed to the development of a responsive, multi-platform insurance web application using TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, and CSS.
  • Played a key role in launching the application across 15+ U.S. states, directly contributing to a significant increase in company revenue.
  • Developed and optimized critical modules such as Credit Check, MVR (Motor Vehicle Record) Check, and Quote Customization, enhancing user experience and business workflow.
  • Ensured cross-browser and cross-device compatibility through thorough testing and responsive design techniques.
  • Collaborated closely with product and QA teams to deliver high-quality, scalable front-end features on time.
  • Applied performance best practices and modular coding standards to ensure maintainability and fast load times.

UI / Frontend Developer

Vejars Technologies
06.2019 - 01.2022
  • Spearheaded development of responsive single-page applications using React.js, Redux, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap.
  • Implemented Redux architecture with middleware such as Redux-Saga and Redux-Thunk; utilized Redux-Form for complex form management.
  • Applied optimization strategies (e.g., CSS sprites, lazy loading) to improve load performance and cross-browser compatibility.
  • Developed reusable components, integrated React Router, and employed React Hooks for cleaner stateful logic.
  • Wrote robust unit tests using Jest, Enzyme, and React Testing Library to ensure component reliability.
  • Collaborated using JIRA, maintained code quality via ESLint, and adhered to CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.

Front End Developer

Vejars Technologies
03.2017 - 06.2019
  • Developed Responsive Web Pages using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ReactJS, Bootstrap, NodeJS and AJAX.
  • The front-end use HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ReactJS, jQuery and Bootstrap to build a single page web app that communicate with back-end via RESTful API.
  • Involved in developing Responsive Web pages that are interactive using object-oriented JavaScript, ReactJS, Bootstrap, NodeJS and AJAX.
  • Used Webpack, Babel and Gulp for transpiration (compilation) configuration for Typescript to be converted to JavaScript.
  • Webpack plugin to perform various tasks that build our application.
  • Developed Single Page Applications (SPA) using React, ES6, Webpack, Grunt and Redux.
  • Constructed powerful and modern Frontend Architecture, involving ReactJS, Redux, and ES6.
  • Created reusable ReactJS components and implemented Redux Pattern into the solution to maintain the stable and always updated Application state.
  • Used ReactJS to create Controllers to handle events triggered by clients and send request to server.
  • Used various jQuery plug-in like auto complete, date picker, color picker, document slider to enhance the usability, functionality, and overall experience for website.
  • Created jQuery-AJAX callback methods to get the data in JSON format and displayed on many different controls in the HTML page.
  • Built RESTFUL Web services by building NodeJS server in the back end to handle request Ajax calls.
  • Solved Callback hells in Node.JS by using Promises and Generators from ES6 resulting in unchaining of events and making the code efficient.
  • Used Redux-Thunk as middleware to manipulate the data type and handle multiple actions.
  • Involved in unit testing of various modules by generating the test cases using Jest & Enzyme.
  • Used Middleware, Redux Promise in application to retrieve data from Back-End and to also perform RESTFUL services.
  • Developed React Components and used Redux Promise API for making async calls.
  • Used GitHub repository to submit code changes that are in turn reviewed by the dev leads before they are merged to the master branch before production.
  • Environment: React JS, Redux, Node JS, SQL, Express JS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, Redux-Thunk, React Router, Bootstrap, JSON, Restful Web APIs, AJAX, NPM, ES6, Webpack, GitHub, JIRA, Jenkins, and Visual Studio Code.

UI Developer

Boolean Array
10.2015 - 03.2017
  • Designing and developing the web pages using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, SASS, LESS, React.js, Redux, Flex, Node JS, and Mongo DB.
  • Developed client-side Interface using React JS.
  • Responsible to Style, look and feel of the webpage with SASS that extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variable, mixing, operations and functions.
  • Responsible for React UI and architecture. Building components library, including Tree, Slide-View, and Table Grid.
  • CSS styles were developed to preserve the uniformity of all the screens throughout the application and positioning of screen objects.
  • Used React-auto complete for creating Google map’s location search on the webpage.
  • Works in using React JS components, Forms, Events, Keys, Router, Animations, and Flux concept.
  • Implement modules into Node JS to integrate with designs and requirements.
  • Utilized React for its efficient data flow architecture to create a lightweight and render efficient web app that searched projects via the GitHub API through keywords.
  • Implemented MV architecture using React and Redux framework.
  • Performed the System Testing, Regression Testing for Complete UI after fixing the Issues which are reported by Testing Team.
  • Utilized React for its efficient data flow architecture to create a lightweight and render efficient web app that searched projects via the GitHub API through keywords.
  • Used JIRA extensively for organizing issues, tracking the assigned work, and following team activity.
  • Worked with JASMINE unit test framework to write unit tests for JavaScript code.
  • Environment: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, LESS, JavaScript, React JS, Redux, Flex, JSP, MS Office, JIRA, Mocha, GitHub, Jenkins, and Web Strom.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

Calcutta University

Diploma - Full Stack Web Development

Georgia Institute of Technology

Skills

  • Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript (ES6), TypeScript, Reactjs, Nextjs, Context API, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, React Bootstrap, Material UI
  • Backend: Nodejs, Expressjs, RESTful Web Services
  • Testing: Jest, Jasmine
  • Database: MongoDB, MySQL
  • Tools & Platforms: GitHub, VS Code, Eclipse, Chrome DevTools, Bugzilla, Firebug, Agile - Scrum and Kanban, AWS
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Timeline

Front End Developer

HTC Global Services
02.2022 - Current

UI / Frontend Developer

Vejars Technologies
06.2019 - 01.2022

Front End Developer

Vejars Technologies
03.2017 - 06.2019

UI Developer

Boolean Array
10.2015 - 03.2017

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

Calcutta University

Diploma - Full Stack Web Development

Georgia Institute of Technology
Arpita Kar