Harish Kumar S S

summary

Frontend enthusiast building performant apps and curating documentations for the web. Maintainer of Reactjs.org and ESLint website. Passionate about building design systems and micro frontends.

Open Source contributions

• Maintainer of react's documentation site
• Reduced ~150KB of code from statically generated pages in beta.reactjs.org site
• Integrated ESLint with codesandpack for all codesandboxes in beta site
• Created custom console for codesandboxes
• Wrote custom linters to verify headings in markdowns and workflows for the same
• Migrated redirects from YAML to JSON by writing scripts

• Member of website team in ESLint
• Worked on reducing the assets size and simplifying the build pipeline
• Improved ESLint's create-config script to do the following
  • Add support for yarn and pnpm to install ESLint and its dependencies
  • Early exit when package.json is not found for a project for which ESLint has to be configured
• landed 50+ PRs to websites and CLI repos

• Migrated babeljs.io from docusaurus v1 to v2
• Contributed to documentation of webpack loaders and plugins
• contributed to other open source applications like hey.xyz, lexical editor etc.

experience

• Built Design System that powers 5+ internal tools

  • Wrote tailwind plugin, UI library, fonts library
  • Configured monorepo and build tools for the design system
  • Created scripts for publishing and versioning the library

• Built Internal portals and tools

  • Wrote UI for segmentation data platform for creating and managing user segments
  • Wrote UI for Experimentation platform to configure Alpha/Beta experiments for end users

• Built an in-house Drag and Drop Form builder

  • Form builder allows configuring server driven forms from frontend and exports the template to be consumed
  • Built internal playground to share form previews with the team

• Developed web flow for Bidblast game

  • Implemented SVG based approach to target all devices (starting from Iphone 5) and was built in Next.js
  • Built internal tool to configure and drive the game without need of newer coding efforts
  • Works in devices with all screens irrespective of device's height and width

• Maintained Freshdesk Messaging's chat module frontend part

• Carried out major performance upgrades enhancing the user experience

  • Applied occlusion rendering for 10000+ options inside dropdown reducing the render time of dropdown from ~8000 ms to ~19ms
  • Revamped API call flows to reduce the initial loading time of about 1 s
  • Implemented prioritized sequential rendering, optimizing load time of inbox

• Built a customized dropdown component that can list the computed options, fetch paginated options on its own with the API endpoint

• Led a team of 3 to victory among 2,500 participants during Freshworks Internal hackathon 2020, implementing the following features in Freshdesk Messaging

  • Reply to specific messages in a conversation
  • Developed keyboard shortcuts to add emojis and canned responses for boosting agent's productivity
  • Introduced a feature to record, send and listen to voice messages to and from the users instead of third-party add ons

• Promoted to Software Engineer by EVP of Engineering for being the only graduate trainee team to win the hackathon from participants across all positions

• Integrated 3 products Freshsales, Freshchat and Freshbots together sharing UI and code logics

• Completely restructured chat portal and widget's User Interface with SCSS