About

Kanishka Malhotra is an experienced Lead Frontend Engineer and ReactJS Developer with a strong commitment to maintaining cutting-edge technical skills and up-to-date industry knowledge of Financial Services and E-commerce domains. With over 9 years of relevant experience, Kanishka has proven to be highly effective at working independently and as a part of the team, and is always ready to embrace change. Kanishka's technical expertise includes application-grade JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS + Redux/Context, NodeJS + Express, and AngularJS, as well as web fundamentals and technologies like HTML5, Web APIs, CSS3, SASS/LESS, Styled components, JSON, AJAX, WebSockets, REST, Web accessibility, and Web security. He is also well-versed in web component libraries such as Material-UI, Ant Design, Semantic UI React, and custom libraries, as well as testing frameworks like Jest, Enzyme, Mocha, Jasmine, and cross-device testing and debugging tools. Kanishka is proficient in front-end tooling and workflows like Babel, Webpack, Rollup, Yarn, npm, ESLint, Gulp, and Grunt, and has experience with web analytics tools like Adobe Target and Google Analytics. He is also familiar with continuous integration enablers like Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, cloud computing systems like AWS and Microsoft Azure, version control systems like Git and SVN, and databases like MongoDB and MySQL. Kanishka's past experience includes working as a Senior Associate Experience Technology L2 at Publicis Sapient, where he designed the architectural framework and developed breakthrough solutions such as client-side face detection and recognition for online ID verification. He also mentored engineering team members and worked closely with Product, Design, and Engineering agile teams to provide high-level estimates for business cases, product release, and development schedules. Prior to that, Kanishka worked as a Sr. UI Developer at Pulp Strategy, where he led, mentored, and trained other frontend developers to develop a strong, best-in-class front-end development team, and provided resolution to complex business problems related to e-commerce domain. Kanishka holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from GGSIPU, and a Bachelor of Technology degree from Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony, New Delhi. His tech stack includes Frontend, Senior Software Engineer, Javascript, Web, ReactJS, UI, test, AWS, CI/CD,