Vedansh Garg, Software Developer in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Vedansh Garg

Software Developer in Bengaluru, Karnataka, 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.
Vedansh is now available for hire

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, AWS, Code Auditing, Heroku, React...
  • HackerRank
    Docker, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, MySQL, React, Backbone.js...

Experience

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

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
  • 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, AWS, Code Auditing, Heroku, React, React Native, TypeScript, AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • 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, AWS, Code Auditing, Heroku, React Native, TypeScript, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, CSS, Node.js, A/B Testing, Landing Pages

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
  • Frameworks

    Ruby on Rails (RoR), Django, Next.js, React Native
  • Libraries/APIs

    Backbone.js, API Development, JSON API, React, Resque, Sidekiq, Node.js, jQuery, Google APIs, Facebook API, Shopify API
  • Tools

    Git, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, RSpec, VS Code, Sublime Text, RabbitMQ
  • Paradigms

    Test-driven Development (TDD), RESTful Development, Agile, Agile Software Development, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), MVC Design
  • Platforms

    Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Heroku, AWS Lambda, Shopify, MacOS, Eclipse, Docker, Sideqik, Azure, AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Storage

    MySQL, Memcached, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB
  • Other

    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, AWS, Plugins, Lambda Functions, Exports, OAuth, Remote Work, RESTful APIs, Architecture

Education

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

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