Summary
Vikash Ranjan is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building scalable full-stack products, currently working at Optum and previously driving platform growth at Vasitum. He specializes in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and Elasticsearch on the backend, while also owning Next.js and Redux-based frontends and migrations from legacy CMS to modern frameworks. Vikash has hands-on experience integrating Google and Microsoft Workspace APIs to enable resume parsing, interview scheduling, and email automation, and implemented Kafka-based retry mechanisms that boosted parsing efficiency by 60%. He designed vendor-specific service strategies using the factory pattern to improve scalability and led XML job-posting integrations that increased candidate sourcing by 50%. Based in Noida, he combines product-focused engineering with practical system design and a penchant for solving end-to-end problems across infra, API, and UX layers.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.tech, Information Technology, B.tech, Information Technology at College of Engineering Roorkee