Harish Kumar S S

Frontend Engineer

Built data platform apps and frontend infrastructure.

• Created an internal design system that powers 5+ platforms. It is a combination of Tailwind plugin and React components.
• Built Communications Platform that allows CRED to send comms messages through channels like SMS, Email, RCS, Whatsapp, In-app Notifications and Push Notifications
• Was the only frontend engineer handling the entire comms configuration portal
• Built an experiments module UI that allows a particular group of users to be part of A/B testing
• Developed a segmentation module UI to enable grouping of users by specific characteristics
• Standardized webpack configs across multiple platforms
• Developed BidBlast flow on the web and an internal tool to power the game
• Wrote a form renderer that helps developers write forms quicker rather than repeating the code reducing duplicate code

Frontend Engineer

Previously Graduate Trainee (Oct 2020) & Intern (Jan 2020). Worked on Freshchat.

• Maintained Freshdesk Messaging's inbox module frontend
• Carried out major performance upgrades, enhancing the user experience
• Migrated from a legacy socket to internal web socket implementation
• Built a customized dropdown component that can list computed options, fetch paginated options on its own from an API endpoint
• Led a team of 3 to victory among 2,500 participants during Freshworks Internal hackathon 2020
• Integrated 3 products Freshsales, Freshchat and Freshbots together sharing UI and code logic
• Restructured customer support chat portal and widget's User Interface with SCSS

Maintainer

Helped build the React website (reactjs.org & beta.reactjs.org) and its localizations.

• Reduced 150 KB of code from statically generated pages in beta.reactjs.org site.
• Integrated ESLint with codesandpack for all codesandbox in the beta site.
• Created custom console for codesandboxes.
• Wrote node scripts to convert yml files to Vercel redirects for site migration.
• Created custom pre-commit hooks to generate and validate heading IDs in markdown.
• Setup Linters, Prettiers, and GitHub Actions for the beta repo.