About

Himanshu J. is a skilled Software Engineer with over 5 years of professional web development experience. He has worked on several high-profile projects including Outlook Web and Microsoft Teams, as well as with e-commerce startups Headout and Grofers. Himanshu is proficient in HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, React, Angular, Redux, MobX, SatchelJS, GraphQL, TypeScript, Jest, Webdriver, Playright, Webpack, Gulp, Lighthouse, Webpagetest, PowerBI, Kusto, Aria, and Cosmos. Currently, Himanshu works as a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft, where he focuses on web performance. He has also worked as a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft in the past, where he was responsible for setting up the performance monitoring infrastructure and improving the Outlook mobile web mail load time to less than 3 seconds from close to 6s. He also migrated the Outlook core dependencies to a common shared infrastructure that unlocked improvements for mobile web, positioning the team for more and better collaboration going forward, alongside getting many build and feature improvements. Himanshu was an early member of the Outlook mobile web team, where he implemented and released the product to production with 70M MAU. He also implemented features like Attachments, Search, and Folders in Outlook mobile web. He improved the accessibility to Grade B and added PWA support for Outlook mobile web. Additionally, he developed features like Calendar settings and Add to Calendar in Outlook Desktop Web. Himanshu also improved the relevance and performance (~300ms) of the Search (people picker) component in Microsoft Teams. Himanshu holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He is proficient in Software Engineering, Web Development, Mobile Development, Infrastructure, JavaScript, Frontend Development, ReactJS, Search, AngularJS, and Redux. With 6.69 years of relevant experience, Himanshu is a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer with a proven track record of success.