About

Shiv Shankar Kumar is a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with over 8 years of relevant experience in web development. He is a graduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and has a proven track record of delivering solutions for software applications. Shiv has extensive experience with JS frameworks such as ReactJS, Angular JS 1.4.6, Angular 4, PolymerJS, JQuery, NodeJS, and languages like HTML5, CSS3. Shiv is an expert in architecting, developing and driving improvements to ever-evolving back-end and front-end infrastructures. He is a team player and is known for his high-quality and fast delivery of code. Shiv has worked with F5 as a Senior Software Engineer and has previously worked with Riversand as a Principal Software Engineer and Development Team Lead. At Riversand, Shiv was responsible for the Riversand UI platform for Master Data Management Solution. He was the Performance Lead and improved performance from 30-second load time to 15-second load time, a 50% reduction in first-time load. Shiv also reduced click-to-load time for pop-ups and improved frame rate by using web-workers and threads. He reduced network traffic by using falcor and replacing XMLHTTP based solutions. Caching solution with falcor reduced second-time load time by another 40% to 10 seconds. Shiv was also the Usability Lead and improved loading meters, modal and dropdown animations, giving the application a modern look. He added responsive feedbacks to clicks, selections and cancel events and hence improving usability of the application. Shiv was the Technical Support and was the go-to person for answering all challenging technical queries. He conducted sessions on advanced Javascript and created code guidelines and performance documents for the team. Shiv was also the Scrum master and managed daily scrum in agile methodologies. Shiv has a diverse TechStack that includes Software Engineer, Web, Backend, AngularJS, Frontend, Javascript, UI, QA, NodeJS, ReactJS, and Azure. Shiv has a relevant experience of 14.53 years and is an experienced entrepreneur.