Hem's CV

Experienced Software Engineer with a strong background in developing applications and services for Bloomberg, The Times, Net-A-Porter, and Sky. Skilled in financial applications, SPA checkout journeys, backend systems, cloud infrastructure management, and improving DevEx and testing.

As a team lead at YLD, I managed engineering teams, led projects, coordinated releases, created technical roadmaps, and enhanced SDLC processes.

Client-side: TypeScript (React, React Hooks, Redux), SPA (routing, state management, API integration, UX, CSS, design systems), Testing (Playwright, Cypress, Storybook, Jest, react-testing-library)
Server-side: Primary Language (TypeScript), Secondary Languages (Elixir, Java, Python, Ruby), API development (Node.js, GraphQL, REST, gRPC, kafka), Cloud Computing (AWS, Kubernetes, serverless)
Delivery: Development lifecycle (requirement gathering, estimates, delivery roadmapping, release management, support and maintenance), Engineering (RFCs and diagraming, incident management, documentation, developer tooling, technical presentations), Line Management (training, evaluating performance, assigning work, setting standards)
DevOps and Tooling: Containerisation (docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure (Terraform), Monitoring (DataDog, Grafana, NewRelic), Scripting (CLIs, Bash), Testing (Unit, integration, mocking, E2E, performance, synthetic)
Networking & Security: Caching (CloudFront, Redis, cache strategies), Networking (VPCs, routing & DNS, ingress/egress, gateways) Authentication and security (IAM, OAuth, JWT, certs, secret management)
Date Storage: Databases (SQL, Postgres, RDS, MongoDB, Redis), Data Ops (replication, backups, remote access, encryption)

Projects and Employment

Project Fresha Partners - Salon software for appointment scheduling, point-of-sales (POS) and payment processing
RoleFull Stack Engineer
Date4 months (Oct '24 - Jan '25)
TechnologiesTypescript, React, React Hooks, GraphQL, Elixir, Kafka, gRPC

Senior front-end leaning developer on the checkout team, responsible for development, collaboration with product and design, backlog grooming, code reviews, exploratory testing, and delivery.
Implemented basket-saving functionality during the checkout process.
Enhanced navigation in the checkout flow for product selection and viewing saved baskets.
Provided support for incidents and app issues.

Project Bloomberg Terminal - {PM}, an institutional trading software for managing high frequency real-time positions
RoleSenior Software Engineer
Date1 year 8 months (Sep '22 - May '24)
TechnologiesTypescript, React, Redux, Grid, Docker, SQL

Improved a table/grid pivoting pipeline, increasing data performance by 3x.
Developed new worksheet columns for PM, including custom classifications and issuer weights.
Collaborated with international clients and business users to gather requirements.
Managed on-call support, issue resolution, and organized deep dives across timezones.
Trained in Bloomberg Terminal usage across various financial domains.
Contributed to multiple working groups for talks, coding initiatives, and peer reviews.

Project Consultant - Engineer working with clients including Uphold and CloudMargin
RoleSenior Backend Engineer -> Team Lead
Date1 year 5 months (Jul '20 - Jul '21)
TechnologiesNode.js, Express, AWS, SQS, gRPC, Terraform, Docker, Cypress

Managed a team of 6 engineers and QAs at CloudMargin, providing mentorship and reporting to the VP of Engineering.
Led roadmap planning and technical discussions, increasing commitment vs delivery from 60% to 90%.
Implemented features such as fraud and anti-money laundering checks, identity verification for Uphold wallets, scalable margin call creation, and manual adjustments to daily margin calls.
Established an engineering initiative committee and organized an internal hackathon.
Collaborated with the SRE team to create a self-service infrastructure provisioning model, guiding my team and others in adoption and migration.

Project NewsUK - audio platform for Times Radio
RoleNode.js Engineer
Date1 year (Jun '19 - Jul '20)
TechnologiesNode.js, GraphQL, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, MongoDB, BlazeMeter

Served as a senior engineer in a 30-member department, focusing on infrastructure, API development, and out-of-hours support for the Wireless Audio Platform.
Developed GraphQL microservices, implemented API authentication, and conducted contract testing and integration with upstream services.
Led an initiative to establish SLAs and created a performance testing pipeline.
Provisioned and migrated Kubernetes, utilizing infrastructure as code for compute, capacity planning, networking, databases, CDN, CI, monitoring, alerting, and access control.

Project Consultant - Engineer working with various clients including The Times, Nexmo and eLife Sciences
RoleSoftware Engineer
Date2 year 3 months (Apr '17 - Jun '19)
TechnologiesNode.js, GraphQL, serverless, AWS, React, Vue.js Docker, Figma, Storybook

Led a team to develop a public-facing serverless API for user-saved articles for The Times.
Implemented deep linking for times.co.uk and the native app.
Delivered UI components and public/private APIs, provisioned AWS cloud infrastructure, and set up automated load testing and monitoring dashboards.
Developed onboarding pages for Nexmo, using iterative reviews of conversion metrics to boost subscriptions.
Presented talks on web page performance and web animations at the London Node.js Meetup and contributed to the open-source PubSweet platform.

Project theoutnet.com - Luxury fashion online retailer
RoleFront-End Engineer
Date1 year 6 months (Jun '15 - Nov '16)
TechnologiesJavascript, Semantic HTML, CSS, Storybook, Figma, Java, SQL

Developed product and listing pages for Outnet.com, as single-page apps, optimised for SEO
Created a design system for Outnet.com
Contributed toward a CMS system for the Outnet.com homepage and campaign pages

RoleGraduate Developer -> Associate Developer -> Software Developer
Date4 years (Aug '11 - Jun '15)
TechnologiesJavaScript (jQuery, Ember.js), Ruby, Java, Spring, SQL, Cassandra, Mongo

Redesigned the customer order tracking journey and improved the online bill section for accessibility. Developed web components for the shared style guide and contributed to the Sky MyAccount app for iOS and Android.
Created Java-based APIs for multiple departments using Spring and MySQL.
Joined the Sky Software Engineering Academy for training, departmental rotations, and mentorship.

Hem Brahmbhatt

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