Umang Galaiya

Education

Babaria Institute of Technology, Varnama, India - Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science and Engineering (2013 to 2017). CGPA: 9.33/10

Programming Languages

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • PHP
  • MySQL

Frameworks & Tools

  • ReactJS
  • SvelteJS
  • Node.js
  • Laravel

Talks

Experience

Apollo [YC W16]

Senior Frontend Engineer (September 2020 to Present)
  • Improved frontend tooling
  • Overhauled onboarding experience in multiple areas of the platform
  • Performance improvements across frontend projects

Razorpay [YC W15]

Senior Frontend Engineer - Payments Team (March 2019 to September 2020)
  • Added preview environments for Razorpay Checkout
  • Helped build a testing framework for Checkout using Puppeteer
  • Migrated UI from doT.js to Svelte v2 and then to Svelte v3.
  • Added support for more payment methods on Checkout
  • Introduced patterns to reduce time taken to add new payment methods to Checkout
  • Created and maintained alternate versions of Checkout
  • Won internal hackathons, twice.
Frontend Engineer (October 2017 to March 2019)
  • Created multiple landing pages for razorpay.com
  • Added support for Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the Invoices product
  • Created patterns + libraries for tracking user behavior across Dashboard and Website
  • Added support for multiple payment methods to Razorpay Checkout
  • Migrated Razorpay's blog from Ghost to a static website generated via WordPress APIs

Wingify, PushCrew Team

Software Engineer (June 2017 to October 2017)
  • Created a tracking library in JavaScript to capture analytics through multiple services
  • Enhanced service workers to retain more Push Notification subscribers on Firefox
  • Added multiple features to the Dashboard using ReactJS
  • Created a Slack command + scripts to enable tracking of ownership of Staging instances
Software Engineering Intern (December 2016 to January 2017)
  • Automated a flow to convert customer accounts to HTTPS accounts, reducing 60 to 80 support tickets per month
  • Implemented changes in the display of pricing tiers for better customer acquisition
  • Integrated MixPanel on the Dashboard
  • Developed landing pages

Independent Contractor (March 2016 to June 2017)

  • Worked on various web-based (frontend and backend) projects

Projects

[My GitHub should give a better idea about the things I've worked on recently.]

covid19-twitter.in

Built a simpler UI to use Twitter's Advanced Search to aid during India's 2nd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. 180K pageviews/day at its peak. Featured in domestic + international news publications.

Used SvelteJS.

covid19-twitter.in

Diagnosis of Brain Tumor using Machine Learning (2016-17)

Created an intermediate system that diagnoses Brain Tumor from MRI scans using various Machine Learning algorithms.

Used Python, scikit-learn, scikit-image, BRATS 2016 dataset.

LeapDrop [InOut 3.0] (2016)

Hacked together a system to drag (using hand gestures) a webpage from one computer, drop it onto another, and have it open instantaneously.

Used Leap Motion, NodeJS, SocketIO, Chrome Extension.

umanghome.github.io/leapdrop

Picture Band [Creator] (2015)

Built a web platform to enable sharing of photos among groups by using a single, personalized URL.

Used Laravel, Materialize, Bootstrap, jQuery.

pictureband.co

Shikshak [Backend Developer] (2017)

Built an AngelList-like platform for teachers during Smart India Hackathon 2017.

Used Laravel.

github.com/speedforce-sih17/shikshak

KhiKhi [MIT Media Lab DI15] (2015)

Built interface to make two Tessel microcontrollers communicate with each other over WiFi using HTTP requests.

Used NodeJS, Tessel.

umanghome.github.io/khikhi

Miscellaneous

  • Multiple hybrid Android apps using ReactJS, Cordova, and Firebase
  • Tiny web apps to interact with IMDb, generate + maintain listings, pick between two options, plan a trip using Google Maps APIs, etc.

Accolades during college