About

Shankul Barua is an experienced frontend developer with a strong background in Javascript, ReactJs, Bootstrap, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTML5. He is currently working as a Lead Frontend Engineer at Leena AI, an AI-powered HR Assistant that provides instant responses to employee queries and improves employee experience. At Leena AI, Shankul is responsible for creating FAQ Dashboard UI using ReactJS, TypeScript, and Redux to convert Frequently Asked Questions into a chatbot that can answer them. He also generalizes custom webviews into templates that are company and content agnostic and just need a configuration file to render. Shankul has built webviews to extend chatbot experiences for clients like Coca-cola, Reliance Capital, and Facebook. Additionally, he maintains and adds existing tools and dashboards built on ReactJS. Before joining Leena AI, Shankul worked as a Frontend Developer at Lowe's India, where he was part of the product details team. He worked on server-side rendered React and Typescript Micro-Frontends with Webpack’s Module Federation and built out various features on the Product Detail page in React, Redux, and hooks. He also hosted these features in Google Cloud Platform. Shankul has also worked as a UI Developer at WealthEngine, where he designed the Web application layout and forms using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and ReactJs. He was involved in fixing Front-End issues with the layouts and proposed new technologies and implemented POC. He built and maintained projects in HTML, CSS, and React and identified performance & scalability challenges and provided technical solutions. Shankul holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree focused on Computer Application from Vellore Institute of Technology and a BCA degree in Computer Application from ITM University, Gwalior. He has a relevant experience of 6.70 years and possesses a diverse tech stack that includes Frontend, UI, AI, ReactJS, Javascript, Redux, Web, Typescript, test, ML, AWS, Backend, Software Engineer, Parts-of-speech, Selenium, CI/CD, designer, Jenkins, Azure, GCP, Integration, and Mobile.