Nikhil Varma
Senior Frontend Engineer at Qdrant
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNikhil Varma is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, user-centric web interfaces using React, TypeScript, HTML5, and modern design systems. He designs in Figma and turns high-fidelity prototypes into production-ready features—most recently driving UI and permission-based routing for Qdrant Cloud and prior deliveries for ArangoDB where he created a design system to cut development time. Known for pragmatic optimizations (e.g., shrinking first-load latency from 30s to 2s at Locus) and for contributing to notable open-source projects like ArangoDB and a popular react-number-format component, he balances UX polish with developer experience. He’s also experienced in architecting custom builders, ETL-style tools, theming engines, and mentoring/hiring to scale teams. An uncommon strength is his focus on lean DX—creating hooks, HOCs and component libraries that make complex products easier to build and maintain.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, HyderabadIntermediate Education, Intermediate Education at Sri Chaitanya Junior KalasalaDoveton Matriculation Higher Secondary SchoolHigh School, High School at St Dominic's High School
Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, English
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
number-formatting10
component-development10
number-format10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
human-interface10
react10
ui-design9
css8
arangodb7
nosql6
database5
databases5
typescript4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
s-yadav/react-number-format
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
React component to format numbers in an input or as a text.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 30 reviews, 114 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily contributed to the front-end development of a React component for number formatting. Their work involved adding features like flexibility in rendering the formatted value, fixing decimal scale issues, and addressing value replacement issues. The user also added test specifications, and incorporated improvements for a better user experience with the component's features.
react-component
arangodb/arangodb
Jul 2021 - Jan 2024
🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:150 reviews, 21 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil's commits primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the ArangoDB project. They made changes to the user interface, including adjusting the position of the "Explain" button and adding a recalculate count button. The user also addressed issues related to user name strings and cross-render problems involving collection info and content tab switching. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and fixing UI-related bugs.
arangodbjavascriptkey-valuemulti-model-databasequery-language
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