Shyam Lohar
Senior Software Engineer at JioHotstar
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolShyam Lohar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ahmedabad with a decade of hands-on front-end experience building responsive, accessible, and high-performance web interfaces. He partners closely with design teams to craft design systems and ship maintainable, future-proof code, balancing UX sensibilities with pragmatic engineering. Shyam has progressed from frontend roles at Draftbox to senior and tech lead positions at apna and now contributes to JioHotstar, demonstrating leadership across fast-moving product teams. On GitHub he optimized a webpack boilerplate to achieve top-tier performance—implementing cache busting, CSS/HTML minification, and production-ready asset pipelines—reflecting a deep focus on build optimization and real-world performance improvements. At 22 he was already obsessively chasing technology, and his background in mechanical engineering gives him a systematic, problem-solving approach to frontend architecture.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering at GIDC DEGREE ENGINEERING COLLEGE, NAVSARI
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
css10
webpack10
webpacker10
optimization10
boilerplate9
html9
offline-caching8
offline-browsing8
offline-web-app8
sass8
offline-app8
offline-js8
offline-mode8
pwapp7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tr1s/tris-webpack-boilerplate
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
A Webpack boilerplate for static websites that has all the necessary modern tools and optimizations built-in. Score a perfect 10/10 on performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Shyam primarily focused on optimizing the webpack build process for the front-end application. They implemented cache busting for JavaScript and CSS bundles, ensuring efficient asset loading and preventing caching issues. Additionally, the user configured the build process for production, integrating nano CSS, purge CSS, and HTML minification. They also addressed image paths, and added a vendor entry point.
optimizationsstatic-sitewebpack-boilerplategulpperfect
draftbox-co/gatsby-ghost-novela-theme
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
A Feature rich Gatsby theme plugin for creating blogs from Ghost.
Contributions:68 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 1 month
novela-themegatsbyreactstatic-sitegatsby-starter
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