Nishant Salhotra

Senior Software Engineer, Contractor

Contractor•  November 2023 - Present

Working as an independent contractor with multiple teams. • Leading the engineering team at an interior design firm. Built and maintained their website from scratch using React and NextJS. Contributed to marketing efforts leading to 300% increase in leads within 1 month. • Fixed complex performance bottlenecks in a mobile application with over 1 million downloads on PlayStore. Also reduced the size of the application bundle by 45% leading to an increase in downloads. • Directed team mentorship and implemented code review practices; reviewed engineering workflows to enhance productivity and overall team performance. • Built a React Native application that does relative scheduling instead of maintaining a static todo list.

Senior Software Engineer

LoanCrate•  January 2021 - September 2023•  New York City (Remote)

As one of the 3 founding engineers, played a major role in building a Loan Origination System. • Spearheaded the development full-stack features using TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, React, PostgreSQL (Prisma), AWS, and Terraform. • Led the development of a flexible data model framework for managing highly dynamic data on the client and server. • Ledthedevelopmentofacomplexrulesenginefordatavalidationandbusiness logic on the client and the server. • Delivered the Post-Closing LOS application within the first 4 months of joining. This led to a 210% increase in loan processing efficiency. • Played a major role as an on-call engineer after going live, maintaining a 100% up-time record.

Senior Software Engineer

BuddyBoss•  March 2020 - December 2020•  Toronto (Remote)

The BuddyBoss app is a cross-platform development framework for mobile apps.

Lead Mobile Application Developer

Sportskeeda•  March 2019 - February 2020•  Bengaluru

Sportskeeda is a big player in sports media and news in India.

Software Engineer, Freelance

•  August 2018 - February 2019

Transitioned to freelance development.

Software Engineer

PestoTech•  June 2017 - July 2018•  New Delhi

PestoTech started as a software consulting firm for clients in the US.

Software Engineer

Dealflow•  June 2016 - May 2017•  New Delhi

A FinTech startup in the public funding space.

Software Engineer (Intern)

Sopra Steria•  January 2016 - March 2016•  Noida

Developed and optimized an internal human resource management application.