ISHANT SOLANKI
FRONTEND DEVELOPER
+44 7448031585
I am a passionate developer skilled at various aspects of web and mobile development. Over the course of 5 years of professional experience, I have worked on leading javascript frameworks and gained insight on best practices, design patterns, clean code, and UI design. I am constantly motivated to learn new skills and grow both professionally and personally.
Experience
Loveholidays, London, UK May 2018 - current
Frontend Developer
  • Loveholidays is one of the leading travel websites selling thousands of holidays everyday across the globe.
  • Being part of the experiments team with multiple pods, I lead one of the pods consisting of frontend engineers, UX, QA and project manager. The key responsibilities include grooming stories, accessing feasibility, and ensuring their timely delivery.
  • Implemented and ran 100+ AB tests which improved conversion rate significantly.
  • The team brainstorms ideas, shapes them into features and AB tests them before it becomes part of the product.
  • Actively participated in tribe sessions where we discussed codebase health, ways to minimise tech debt, showcase newly built features and introduce new tools in the workflow.
  • React
  • Redux-saga
  • Storybooks
  • Typescript
  • i18n
DigitalGenius, London, UK April 2017 - April 2018
Frontend Developer
  • Delivered critical features on the dashboard app. Built on React + Redux, the web app is highly performant and has reputable code coverage. Storybooks showcase the various components used throughout. NodeJS layer serves REST endpoints to the dashboard.
  • Implemented websockets on both client and server to enable large file uploads.
  • Introduced unit testing environment to an existing project built to serve salesforce pages.
  • React
  • Redux-saga
  • Storybooks
  • NodeJS
  • WebSockets
Saba Software, Pune, India April 2016 - March 2017
Software Engineer
  • Worked on the frontend bits in social and assessment modules of an enterprise E-Learning platform.
  • Special provisions were taken to ensure I18N, 508 compliance and cross browser compatibility.
  • Implemented core features for activity feed, blog posts, and learning assessments.
  • Tech Stack includes ExtJS flavoured with in-house developed Saba framework and GOjs charting library.
  • Worked in a fast paced agile environment within a large team of 20.
  • ExtJS
  • GoJS
  • 508 compliance
  • IE8 support
  • i18n
Infostretch Solutions, Ahemdababad, India August 2014 - March 2016
MobileWeb Developer
  • Worked with a small team to build a web app - Urgently, the Uber for roadside assistance. The app was built with backbone + marrionette and featured extensive use of google/mapquest maps, live location tracking, secure payments and highly responsive design. The project was a major success and achieved the highest CSAT in the organization.
  • Worked with the same team to build a map portal for Urgently. Built with angular 1 and Ionic, it included live location of multiple jobs, role based access and fully responsive UI for tablets and desktops.
  • Mentored a small team of PHP developers newly adapting to the Frontend role. We built together a traveltracker map portal for a highly renowned customer. The map portal was a rewrite of a deprecated silverlight application and reused UI components which were part of the mobile version.
  • Started a MEAN stack project for an in-house product used for automatically calculating project estimations.
  • AngularJS
  • NodeJS
  • MongoDB
  • Google Maps
  • Real Time Location Tracking
  • Backbone - Marrionette
Education
DDIT, Nadiad, India August 2014
B.Tech in Information Technology
  • Graduated with distinction scoring CPI 7.53 / 10