Hey, Himanshu here.
Software Engineer.
Often found experimenting with new tech.
Currently exploring Rust.
Work Experience
Led multiple projects from start to finish ensuring timely delivery with focus on performance and scalability.
Genuin's web-application is short form video based social media platform where users can watch short form videos as well as engage in communities.
- Refactored legacy project code to improve performance and maintainability, reducing load time by 50%.
- Since Genuin provides white-label solutions to its clients, the platform required highly customizable theming capabilities. I collaborated closely with the design and product teams to implement pixel-perfect, client-specific designs.
- Worked with hls.js to ensure smooth ans flawless video streaming on platform.
- Implemented lazy loading and code-splitting to further reduce TTI (Time to Interactive) and improve user experience on low-end devices.
- Used TanStack Query for optimized API fetching and caching, improving state handling across the application and developer experience.
- Integrated Google's IMA SDK to enable pre-roll and mid-roll video advertisements, supporting VAST-compliant ad formats and enhancing monetization capabilities within the platform.
- Delivered and deployed white-labeled versions for clients like Ogonuts and Carlist.
Genuin's web-sdk is used to integrate Genuin's various component into client's websites, enabling high engagement through short-form videos.
- Ensured all flows(positive/negative) worked correctly on client's websites without affecting performance on consumer websites. While maintaining scalability of the codebase.
- Implemented code-splitting and dynamic chunking using Rollup to reduce the SDK’s initial bundle size by 40%, significantly improving load performance on client websites without compromising functionality.
- Built automated testing (unit and integration) suites to ensure SDK's resilience and prevent regressions on client environments, reducing QA validation cycles from 3 to 2.
- Designed SDK to provide simple integration steps while hiding implementation complexity, enabling faster client onboarding.
- Examples: India Food Network, Ogonuts.
- Built Genuin’s marketing website using Next.js and Tailwind CSS with a headless Sanity CMS integration.
- Utilized Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) and Static Site Generation (SSG) to reduce unnecessary API calls to the Sanity backend, effectively lowering backend usage and associated costs.
- Enabled the marketing team to manage and publish blogs for Genuin’s Resource Center by integrating a headless CMS, giving them full flexibility to update content without developer involvement.
- Developed dynamic blog templates and static pages to showcase company vision, updates, and key product features.
Open Source Contributions
An open-source AI-powered data analysis platform that enables natural language queries on databases.
- Developed the Trino connector for Wren-AI’s engine, enabling users to query both SQL and NoSQL databases through a unified interface. (Trino-integration. #535)
- As a result of the Trino connector development, I was featured on the Trino Community Broadcast. Watch the video below:
- Improved the UI and fixed bugs in the Wren-AI. (#746, #491)