About

Vishal Polley is an experienced software engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Tata 1mg. He has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) focused in Information Technology from the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Vishal has a strong skill set in Front-end Development, Webpack, Docker, Data Structures, and Coding Experience. He has relevant experience of 4.20 years and has worked with various companies in the past. At 1mg, he is currently working with the Monetization team, which is responsible for serving sponsored product listing ads and banners for the site. He has also worked with the WebViews team, where he developed a common communication channel aka Event Bus between WebViews and Native app. He achieved a 400% improvement in initial load time for the WebViews by blocking analytics-based scripts, and channeling analytics data through Event Bus. In his previous role at Sureify, Vishal developed a system to restrict the user to only one application session at a time, works on the principle of browser fingerprinting. He added JWT based authorization support for the Acquire application, which supports fetching of tokens, both silently and on valid authentication, with support of token refreshing on expiration reached. He also added functionality to trigger application timeout on user inactivity. He led a team of 5 members towards delivering WCAG (Web Accessibility) and Mobile Optimization related stories for production deployment. Vishal has a sound knowledge of various technologies such as Software Engineer, Frontend, Web, Docker, Javascript, Mobile, UI, Django, Redux, OpenCV, Selenium, Test, MongoDB, Azure, Backend, NodeJS, and ReactJS. He has also written unit tests for various input-based elements using React Testing library and added support for a pre-commit hook for checking linting and code coverage based information. He has also given knowledge transfer sessions to various newly joined developers as part of their on-boarding process and took multiple telephonic interview rounds as part of the candidate hiring process.