Vikas Parashar
Head Of Engineering at Fold
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVikas Parashar is a Head of Engineering based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building and scaling web platforms and developer-focused products. He blends hands-on engineering and leadership from roles at HackerRank to his current position at Fold, while simultaneously founding and growing community and product initiatives like Hack InOut and WebDev Labs. A builder at heart, he runs 2586 Labs and has a track record of taking ideas from prototype to production across frontend and full-stack domains. His background in physics (M.S., NIT Surat) gives him a data-driven problem-solving approach that surfaces in pragmatic engineering decisions. Vikas is as comfortable mentoring teams and shaping engineering strategy as he is writing code and shipping features himself. He’s known for fostering large developer communities through Hack InOut, a long-running community hackathon he started in 2015.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Physics, Master of Science (M.S.) Physics at NIT Surat
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
106reputation
22kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (144)
web-application10
python10
websocket10
chat10
inout10
creative-commons10
cpp10
collaboration10
javascript10
zulip10
yagmail10
socket-io10
reducer10
electron10
apache10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vikas-parashar/django-project-generator
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
interviewstreet/enzyme-chai-a11y
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Accessibility testing plugin for chai based on axe-core
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1 PR in 1 year 7 months
testinga11yaccessibility-testingaxe-corestepper
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