Vivek Bhookya
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolVivek Bhookya is a Founding Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building secure, user-focused frontend and mobile applications. He combines deep frontend expertise in React and TypeScript with practical security work—tightening Supabase RLS, protecting storage buckets, and optimizing authentication to sub-millisecond latencies. His background spans startups and large teams at Amazon and State Farm, where he led UI redesigns, built notification systems, and shipped production monitoring and CI/CD pipelines. Vivek also has a history of voice and multimodal app development for Amazon Alexa and Samsung Bixby, plus teaching and course development that show he can translate complex concepts for diverse audiences. Comfortable across the full stack and operational tooling, he favors pragmatic, measurable improvements that reduce risk and improve user experience. Based in Urbana, IL, he pairs an uncommon combo of frontend polish and security-first engineering learned from both product and infrastructure roles.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science + Astronomy, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science + Astronomy at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (71)
android-app10
medium10
chrome-extension10
sms-messages10
javascript9
python9
sms9
bookmarklet9
monkey9
nodejs9
readable8
human-readable8
lambda7
chaos7
aws-lambda7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mrvivacious/AWS_Lambda_and_SNS
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
For UIUC's CS@ILLINOIS SAIL 2018. This tutorial creates an Alexa skill that utilizes AWS SNS to deliver SMS messages through a Lambda function.
Contributions:51 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
lambda-functionaws-snssms-messagesillinoisaws-lambda
mrvivacious/PorNo-_Porn_Blocker
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Porn blocker that redirects users from porn to positive, fulfilling websites
Contributions:5 reviews, 199 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 7 months
porn-filterpythondetection-algorithmandroid-appchrome-extension
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