Saurav Kumar
Founding Software Engineer at Morphic
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurav Kumar is a founding software engineer based in Bengaluru with 8 years of experience building scalable, production-grade web and blockchain systems. He has repeatedly moved products to faster, more efficient architectures—cutting UI render times by up to 60%, slashing developer setup time, and improving payment success rates by ~40%—while driving multi-million dollar trading volume through smart contract–backed referral and staking programs. Comfortable across the full stack, he designs resilient backends (NestJS, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQS/SNS) and high-performance frontends (React, Zustand, GSAP, Framer Motion) and has built bespoke websocket and caching layers to handle tens of millions of orders monthly. As maintainer of the popular Medium Editor open-source project and a contributor who set up cross-browser test automation and coverage tooling for prominent repos, he blends product-focused delivery with disciplined QA and developer ergonomics. He also has hands-on experience integrating complex payment and government APIs, orchestrating analytics-driven growth, and mentoring small engineering teams. Known for shipping pragmatic, measurable improvements, Saurav pairs startup grit with deep technical craft.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
browserstack10
k10
testing10
wysiwyg4
contenteditable4
editors4
rich-text-editor4
editor4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
yabwe/medium-editor
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone. Uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 14 pushes in 19 days
Contributions summary:Saurav primarily focused on setting up and configuring testing infrastructure for the project. Their commits demonstrate the integration of Karma, a test runner, and the configuration of browser environments for testing. The user also worked on integrating code coverage tools and coveralls, indicating a focus on improving testing quality and reporting. They updated various test configurations and configurations to ensure testing in multiple browsers.
contenteditableapitext-editingwysiwygjavascript
ksorv/blog
Jun 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 119 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
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