About

Devesh Kumar is a skilled Senior Software Engineer at Postman with over 5 years of experience in Full Stack Web Development and developing scalable side-projects with multiple tech stacks. He is a product builder and problem solver who excels at reverse engineering tools and frameworks he uses on a daily basis. Devesh has helped multiple startups from ideation to creation, to maturity, and has a solid understanding of React, Firebase, MERN, LAMP, and other tech stacks. He is a results-oriented professional who has reduced the average page size by 30% for faster load and migrated the common Redux store to SWR and Zustand to save each user over 500KB/visit. He has also implemented pipeline parallelization and build caching to reduce integration and deployment pipeline time by 10-15 minutes/build. Devesh's past experience includes working as a Software Engineer at Unacademy, where he was the highest contributor to the codebase since joining and part of the Web Platform Team. He worked on optimizing heavy-footfall pages, researched and developed POCs with newer libraries and frameworks, and conducted over 40 technical interviews. He also participated in hiring processes and worked on technical and product documentation for efficient organization-wide knowledge transfers. Devesh was also a Lead Software Engineer at Solar Ladder, where he single-handedly built SolarLadder, a B2B SAAS offering for Solar Companies, from scratch. SolarLadder provides over 30 different features to solar companies, reducing costs and automating every aspect of their operations. Most tasks that took over an hour manually, take less than a minute to complete on SolarLadder. Devesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Fergusson College and has a solid understanding of software engineering, web development, testing, Redux, and integration. He is a proactive and results-driven professional who is passionate about building innovative products that solve complex problems.