Vimal Desai
Senior Software Engineer at UpKeep
Surat, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolVimal Desai is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 9+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance web applications and microservices, currently shaping features and shared components for UpKeep’s enterprise asset management platform. He spans frontend to backend—React/Next.js and TypeScript on the client, Node/NestJS and Kafka/RabbitMQ on the server—while treating testing (Cypress, Jest, k6) as a first-class engineering discipline to enable confident, zero-downtime releases. Known for end-to-end ownership, Vimal briefly served as Release Engineer leading platform-wide deployments and was recognized as "Leader of the Month" for cross-functional impact. He leverages AI-augmented workflows to significantly boost delivery velocity (doubling sprint points) and placed in an internal AI Hackathon for a POC that improved data consistency at scale. Earlier roles include scaling frontend architecture at Emtec and growing from fresher to Technical Lead at Knovator, where he shipped 50+ projects and launched a microservice that became a standalone product. Based in Surat, India, he combines hands-on delivery, hiring and mentoring experience, and a pragmatic focus on long-term reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Application, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Application, Computer Science at SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN UNIVERSITY
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Github Skills (129)
visual-studio-code-extension10
multiselect10
ui-components10
visual-studio10
javascript10
react-components10
editor10
react-component10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
otp-input10
vscode10
selector10
autosuggest10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
knovator/data-import
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:1 review, 67 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
VimLeSai/otp-input-react
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
React simple otp input with react hooks
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
reactreact-hooksotp-inputhooksotp
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