About

Viral Pasad is an experienced software engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industry in ed-tech, blockchain, and banking sectors. He is currently the Technical Lead at upGrad, where he is building products and features for learners to give them 360° career support in the ed-tech space. Viral is skilled in developing efficient applications using React.js and Vue.js. He has previously worked on MEAN stack and Solidity for building blockchain-backed applications for Xinfin.org. Viral is a strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science from K J Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai. He has worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Frontend Engineer at upGrad, where he has delivered one admin application to replace a third-party application for better management and control of data, reducing overall business costs. He has also delivered one user-facing application feature having high impact on learner's usability and increasing involvement in the course and platform. In his past role as a Full Stack Developer at Xinfin Hybrid Blockchain, Viral worked on real-time blockchain-based projects, including an insurance policies project for a leading Indian bank and insurance policy company, and a land registry POC for the Government of Maharashtra. He used technology stacks such as Ethereum for Blockchain and MEAN stack using Angular 6, and Quorum for Blockchain and MERN stack. Viral's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Blockchain, Javascript, Senior Software Engineer, Frontend, Solidity, ReactJS, VueJS, and Ethereum. He has relevant experience of 5.78 years.