Kapil Arora
Gurgaon
Summary
Proactive and results-driven Software Engineer with a strong foundation in technical leadership, scalable architecture design, and delivering impactful software solutions. Currently shaping the development of PayPay, a fintech app with over 65 million users, by driving innovation and collaborating with a large engineering team. Passionate about creating seamless, user-centric digital experiences and driving excellence in software development.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Frontend Engineer
Paypay India
05.2024 - Current
- Architect and optimize application workflows for a fintech platform serving over 65 million users, ensuring high scalability and reliability.
- Manage and enhance Git CI/CD pipelines, driving efficient and seamless deployment processes across multiple teams, leading to almost 25% faster deployment and build times.
- Develop and maintain user-centric features using React and Vue.js, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.
- Contribute to and lead efforts in scaling frontend systems within a large, diverse engineering team, fostering best practices in code quality and performance optimization.
Tech Lead - Frontend
One Impression
06.2023 - 05.2024
- Lead and manage a team of frontend engineers, mentoring and fostering a collaborative environment
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend teams to define project scope, requirements, and timelines for frontend development projects.
- Develop and communicate the frontend technical strategy, architecture, and best practices to ensure consistency and scalability across projects.
- Enforce coding standards and best practices to maintain high-quality code, conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback to team members.
- Work closely with designers to translate UI/UX design concepts into functional and visually appealing frontend interfaces.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, optimizing frontend code and assets for better user experience and faster load times.
- Embrace and promote Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban to manage project development cycles efficiently.
Senior Software Engineer
One Impression
06.2022 - 05.2023
- Key skills for this role - ReactJS, Mentorship, process management.
- Leading a project to build a new web app from core based on react, leading to 30% better development velocity.
- Responsible for standardising the practices frontend should follow for development leading to 40% quality improvement in production shipments.
- Built the first design system for this application with the team.
- Responsible for creating development processes for a smoother developer experience.
Software Engineer
BITCS
09.2019 - 05.2022
- Key skills for this role - ReactJS, NodeJS, Typescript, Leadership.
- Focused on shipping crisp and clean software products for clients through agile methodology.
- Started the journey as a backend engineer fresher (NodeJS), now working as a full stack engineer with the objective to provide production ready, bug-free code to the clients.
- Gained hands-on experience on several javascript frameworks like
React (both javascript and typescript), Nest.js (NodeJS framework), Next.js and also, ruby on rails. - Started with tech leading and mentorship while working on multiple client projects in a collaborative and growth-friendly environment.
Education
MBA - Information Technology & Systems Management
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Mumbai, India05-2024
Bachelor of technology - Computer Science
NSUT - East Campus
New Delhi, India2020
High School - Science and Maths
St. Anselm's Sr. Sec. School
Alwar, India2015
Skills
- Javascript
- React
- Node
- Vue
- Sass
- HTML & CSS
- Git
- Docker
- Algorithm
Accomplishments
Awarded the Mountain Mover Award for exceptional leadership in successfully delivering a high-impact product within a highly constrained timeline, demonstrating adaptability and commitment to excellence.
Timeline
Senior Frontend Engineer
Paypay India
05.2024 - Current
Tech Lead - Frontend
One Impression
06.2023 - 05.2024
Senior Software Engineer
One Impression
06.2022 - 05.2023
Software Engineer
BITCS
09.2019 - 05.2022
MBA - Information Technology & Systems Management
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Bachelor of technology - Computer Science
NSUT - East Campus
High School - Science and Maths
St. Anselm's Sr. Sec. School
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