Premang Vikani
Full Stack Software Engineer II at Booking.com
Amsterdam-Noord, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPremang Vikani is a Full Stack Software Engineer II with 10 years of experience building web and desktop applications using Node, React, Electron and related technologies, currently shipping software at Booking.com from Amsterdam. He has a strong full-stack background from roles at Postman—where he contributed notable timing and verbose reporting features to widely used projects like postman-collection and Newman—to Rippling and Tekion, blending backend API work with polished front-end interfaces. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on performance observability and developer ergonomics, having added detailed timing metrics and tests that improve debugging and performance analysis. A continuous learner who enjoys CTFs, he pairs practical hands-on engineering with curiosity-driven problem solving and a track record of thoughtful open-source contributions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, Science, A+, HSC, Science, A+ at Swastik School of ScienceB.Tech., Information and Communication Technology, 8.11, B.Tech., Information and Communication Technology, 8.11 at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Dutch
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
postman-collection10
api-design10
command-line-interface10
command-line10
postman10
performance-monitoring10
api-testing10
cli10
apim9
sdk9
api9
unit-test8
unit-testing8
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
postmanlabs/postman-collection
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
Javascript module that allows a developer to work with Postman Collections
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:1 review, 41 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Premang primarily focused on enhancing the `postman-collection` library. They implemented detailed timing parameters, including timestamps and request phase durations, in the response objects. Furthermore, the user added tests to validate the newly implemented response properties. They also introduced a function to beautify the time representation in the timing phases, enhancing readability. These changes indicate a focus on improving the library's ability to provide detailed performance metrics.
postmanpostman-collectionsjavascriptsdkpostman-collection
postmanlabs/newman
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Premang significantly enhanced the Newman CLI reporter by implementing a verbose option. This feature provides detailed timing information for requests, including DNS lookup, TCP handshake, and transfer times. The user's contributions also included modifications to the summary calculations, fixing timing calculations, and updating utility functions to beautify time displays, enhancing the user's ability to debug performance issues. Furthermore, the user added tests for the verbose option to ensure the feature's proper function.
api-testjenkinsjson-reportnewmanhttpie
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