Kunal V

Front-end architect

CIBC Capital Markets • Tiempo completo

Feb 2021 - Dec 2025 • 4 yrs 10 mos

• Main responsibility includes work in an agile development POD to develop new features, build new applications from scratch and conduct end-to-end development process with the team. • Act as a Front-end Architect for all the Simplii Online Banking projects. This includes assessing the intake documents, reviewing the BRD, develop POC’s and provide High Level Estimate for leadership review. • Maintain code bases of all the applications currently being used by Simplii Banking. Maintain code quality by reviewing PR’s, build style guides. • Other responsibility includes building and growing the current team by conducting interviews, assessing candidates based on their technical and conceptual knowledge. Collaborate closely with Project Managers and product owners to help in resourcing for projects. • Acted as development lead to help facilitate the current & future projects in pipeline, write & gather documentation about current projects including the git information. Also work with cross functional teams such as design team, back-end team & business team to identify the readiness •Work as an Advisory Application developer to build new applications from scratch for the team to be work on. This also includes working on the feature of the project in pipeline as well as maintain/build new feature in the existing legacy applications. • Managing a team of 11 developers and working closely on building & maintaining all the Front-end applications. • Successfully onboarding development team members with technical knowledge transfer as well as worked closely with BSA, PO, PM & Directors to onboard them on SIMPLII products . • Successfully collaborated with native & marketing to onboard on new projects. At the same time improvise the architecture. • Lead the team to build the very first React application to migrate the micro front-end application to mono repo for OLB Web and React Native. • Technologies Used: Vue.Js, Ember JS, Vite Js, React.js, Azure, Docker, Jenkins,

Senior Software Engineer

Copper

Dec 2019 - Feb 2021 • 1 yr 2 mos

• Main responsibility includes work in an agile development pod and adding new features to the CRM application. • Act as POD lead for front-end focused meetings and initiatives. Prepare front-end architecture review for new projects. • Focus on back-end coding using the Ruby on Rails framework. Collaboration between the back-end, front-end, product, and QA, across the entire software development lifecycle and tech stack. • Be a part of scheduled release, manage the code and deployments. Be an active part of operations team to actively monitor the front-end infrastructure. • Collaborating closely with team situated in San Francisco, CA to build new features, improve code quality, write tests, as well as fix performance issues and bugs. • Technologies Used: Ember.js, Ruby on Rails, Amplitude, New Relic, Hosted Graphite, AWS • Objectives Achieved: Successfully performed ember version upgrade as part of team. Regularly fix bugs and improve code quality. Worked on implementing new features.

Front-End/Full Stack Developer

Compliant IA • Tiempo completo

Sep 2019 - Nov 2020 • 1 yr 2 mos

• Turn business requirements into technical specifications. Turn technical specifications into a beautiful and modular front-end architecture, widgets and libraries. Develop fast and highly-usable screens and workflows using both front-end and back-end technologies. • Advise towards incrementally improving our software stack to ensure we have a device-agnostic, mobile-first approach to front-end development with extensive backward-compatibility. • Having retail experience, contribute to CompliantIA web application to build new features, suggest and implement modifications to the existing application. • Work on the Java based marketing side to improve the user interface and work on technical debts such as version upgrades, optimize code, establish code quality and document rules. • Worked actively to improvise front end design and its components to move away from legacy designs and improvise user experience. • Work closely on backend to be able to design API’s, implement regular cleanup, build business modules using grails & postgreSQL. • Technologies used: Java, Spring, Hibernate, AWS, PostgreSQL, Groovy, Grails. • Objectives Achieved: Implemented various modules such as Reporting, Form Management. Worked actively on code improvisation to remove dead code and DRY principles. Worked actively to implement front end modifications to eliminate bad user experience. Worked on the marketing site built in Java to redesign for better customer experience.