Abhishek Thakur
Technical Lead at The D. E. Shaw Group
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhishek Thakur is a Technical Lead with 9 years of experience building high-performance, user-focused web applications and leading engineering teams across fintech and SaaS. He has driven real-time systems and AI-integrated products at Sprinklr—shipping a crisis management app, product insights dashboards, and tooling that blends Monaco/ANTLR editors with Sprinklr AI for practical automation. At D. E. Shaw he architected low-latency real-time grids with WebSockets and Web Workers, led major repo migrations (React v17→v18, Node 16→20), and introduced a comprehensive test suite to improve reliability. His strengths span front-end performance (LCP/TTI/CLS), GraphQL optimization, service-worker/Apollo caching, and preserving UX state across sessions to reduce friction. Known for mentoring juniors and documenting breaking changes, he pairs hands-on coding with thoughtful engineering processes. Based in Gurugram with a BTech in Computer Science from University of Delhi, he quietly combines deep technical craft with pragmatic product instincts.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, 90.2%, High School, Science, 90.2% at Vidya Bharati School Rohini DelhiBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.8 CGPA, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.8 CGPA at University of Delhi
Hindi, English
Github Skills (7)
monaco-editor9
browser9
code-editor8
vscode8
javascript7
typescript7
editor6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
abhishekthakurak/JsThings
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:34 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Parth0248/Comments-Manager
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:37 reviews, 35 comments in 1 day
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