About

Hitesh Gupta is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Directi (Titan Email) with over 7 years of experience in the information technology product industry. He is skilled in React, Redux, Node.js, Webpack, GraphQL, Javascript, and jQuery. Currently, he is working as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Directi (Titan Email), where he is responsible for developing and managing various features of the email platform. Before joining Directi, Hitesh worked as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Housing.com. During his tenure, he led a team of four to develop new features in the seller portal for brokers and owners and features in the buyer site. He also developed and managed Housing's main promotional events page, reducing the JS & CSS size to around 125KB from 300KB. Additionally, he worked on improving the website's performance and increased the lighthouse score from 55 to 89. He also reduced the HTML size to 15-30 KB from 200KB by implementing critical CSS, JS lazy loading, and GraphQL against API over-fetching. Hitesh was responsible for the differential serving of JS bundles, resulting in a 38% reduction in JS sizes in modern v/s legacy browsers. He also integrated PWA to provide an offline fast performing experience and developed a debugging tool for GraphQL apps. Hitesh created generic components and highly configurable forms that are now used across Housing.com. He was also part of the hiring team and mentored interns. Hitesh has also worked as a Software Developer at Paytm, where he developed a Back Office web application in React used by the operations team to manage the internal working of the bank. He implemented the redux saga with React and Redux and used generator and yield concepts. Hitesh designed and developed the architecture to clone a repository on the server and run test suites. He also implemented a mock Terminal/Command Prompt-like experience to show progress for cloning and test suites using Sockets. Additionally, he was responsible for the development of the common components repository for all frontend projects at Paytm. Hitesh has a BTech in Computer Engineering from the Technological Institute of Textile and Sciences. He is proficient in Software Engineering, Javascript, Redux, iOS, NodeJS, Web, test, ReactJS, Frontend, UI, and VueJS. With over 8 years of relevant experience, Hitesh has demonstrated expertise in developing and managing various software products.