ajit singh kamal

Senior Software Engineer

Glovo•  March 2022 - Present•  Madrid

Lead the launch of tools for managing Ad placements on the Glovo app, including conducting UX research and collaborating with account managers to ensure user-centric designs. Took on the responsibility of creating high-fidelity designs in the absence of dedicated designers, ensuring the team had clear and detailed design specifications reducing turnaround time by 100%. Played a key role in the design and development of a self-service advertising portal for big brands, empowering them to autonomously create and manage their Ads on Glovo. Owned the end-to-end development of a custom image management service, delivering a robust backend solution that supports complex creative assets for Ad placements. Took on leadership responsibilities, mentoring junior engineers in frontend development, fostering a culture of continuous learning, and ensuring adherence to best practices in code quality and performance optimization.

Senior Software Engineer

Myos•  July 2021 - March 2022

Joined Myos as the sole frontend engineer in a small engineering team, taking on the responsibility to enhance the UI experience for users and also improve the frontend codebase. Identified numerous UX pain points and took the initiative to redesign the app, significantly enhancing the user experience. Successfully led the launch of a major release of the Myos client app, resulting in a 10% increase in user adoption. Overhauled the codebase, achieving significant performance gains and improving developer experience (DX), increasing the error-free rate from ~85% to 98%.

Software Engineer

UpGrad•  November 2019 - May 2021

Played a key role in building Upgrad Live, an online mentoring platform adopted by over 1000 universities in India and led the development of core user-interactive features, including Q&A, Polls, and Performance Reporting, enhancing user engagement and interaction. Integrated Single Group Coaching, resulting in a significant migration of one-to-one sessions from Zoom to UpGrad Live, increasing internal sessions on the platform to 95%. Revamped the frontend codebase to improve developer experience (DX), addressing multiple pain points by overhauling the icon system, Redux integration, and event logging. Rebuilt the B2B marketing platform of upgrad.com using Vue.js, resulting in a 15% increase in fresh leads captured.

Frontend Engineer

Cyware Labs•  March 2018 - September 2019

Integrated a new design system into the CSAP web app, migrated a dashboard from Angular 1.x to Vue.js with TypeScript. Migrated dashboard application from Angular 1.x to Vue.JS + TypeScript. Contributed to Cyware Enterprise's mobile app development using Flutter. Optimized client product build size by approximately 60%.

Full Stack Developer

sudeepgandhi.com•  January 2018 - February 2018

Developed and released an online portfolio for calligraphist - Sudeep Gandhi.

Frontend Engineer

HDFC Red•  January 2017 - February 2018

Developed new features and maintained legacy code for Red app’s web and mobile, integrated data capturing from user interactions, and collaborated on development and SEO health checks for HDFC's school website.