Vishesh Handa
Tech Lead at GoGoGrandparent
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolVishesh Handa is a tech lead with 14 years of experience building privacy-conscious, mobile-first productivity tools and robust backend systems from Barcelona. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering with architecture-level thinking, having led legacy migrations, HIPAA compliance efforts, and monolith-to-microservice decompositions across healthcare and enterprise domains. As founder of GitJournal he shipped a Git- and Markdown-based note app focused on developers and privacy, and he continues contributing UI and maintainability improvements to notable open-source projects like KDE and GitJournal. His background spans data engineering and ML-enabled products—designing data platforms, sensor-driven health prediction systems, and high-throughput web-scraping pipelines. Known for improving developer productivity and codebase hygiene, he pairs pragmatic refactoring with feature-driven delivery to accelerate teams. Fluent in unifying disparate codebases, he brings both startup grit and large-enterprise rigor to product-focused engineering.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology
English, Hindi, Spanish
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Github Skills (29)
c-language10
qt10
flutter-apps10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
human-interface10
qml10
flutter-game10
dart10
cprogramming-language10
flutter10
configuration-management9
strip9
android-developers8
android-developer8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
GitJournal/GitJournal
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Mobile first Note Taking integrated with Git
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 3625 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Vishesh primarily focused on simplifying and improving the codebase within the GitJournal project. Their contributions included simplifying settings and configuration classes, refactoring code to remove unused classes, and experimenting with features like serving shared preferences over gRPC. They also addressed minor code cleanup and refactoring tasks, making the codebase more maintainable and readable, improving user interface elements, and implemented the use of new features for enhancing the user experience.
notesintegratednote-takingjournalnotebook
KDE/plasma-desktop
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
Plasma for the Desktop
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Vishesh primarily contributed to the "Search KCM" within the KDE Plasma Desktop environment. They implemented and refactored the KCM, including showing different icons per category and displaying categories instead of individual runners. The user also made changes to the WidgetExplorer, improving the display of widget titles by setting the font and removing unnecessary components, demonstrating a focus on UI improvements. Additionally, the user addressed several focus and autostart issues in the PlasmaShell and TaskManager to improve usability.
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