
Devesh Kumar
Generalist | Developer | Product
Salary / Daily rate
Jouy-en-Josas, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Masters in Management student at HEC Paris and engineering graduate from BITS Pilani. Seasoned multifaceted professional with experience at MPL, Glance (InMobi), Arrowhead and Adster, specialising in scaling products and optimising client solutions. Selected for prestigious programs including Google Summer of Code 2021 and GitHub Externship, demonstrating commitment to open-source innovation. Passionate about bridging technology and business to drive transformation in consulting and fintech
Work experience
SDE-2
Adster
Jun 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year 2 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Worked end to end on DSP and Adster ad server UI by adding features such as Adunits workflow and Audiences workflow using React and Typescript enhancing client engagement by 30% • Worked on config modularity for adster services and managed the core platform ui integration with golang micro-services and google storage • Created a web sdk straight from the POC stage for clients to use so that they can detect no fills and use features of GAM. • Worked extensively on the Ad server UI platforms for both Demand and Server side platforms and optimised usage and performance greatly. • Made an impact of 30%+ to as high as 145% and an avg. impact of 75%+ revenue uplift - for our client (APP Publisher) • Published an npm package built in React native which is a wrapper for the adster-sdk. Achieved 515 weekly downloads • Managed the website adster.tech and made changes whenever needed
Full Stack Engineer
Arrowhead
Nov 2023 - May 2024
7 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• As the Frontend Lead Developer, worked on the Webapp using React, Vite, and TypeScript with Chakra UI for the frontend, and Node.js and PostgreSQL for the backend. • Led the end-to-end implementation of features and developed extensive UI for multiple dashboards throughout the product, ensuring a great user experience. • Created a frontend component library to streamline development and maintain consistency across the application and worked on various POCs (Proof of Concepts) and Chrome extensions to explore new functionalities and enhance the product’s capabilities.
Software Engineer (contractual)
Efficacy Labs
Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
2 months
•Worked with Efficacy labs on their DEX Kriyadex (app.kriya.finance) with frontend in React,Redux and Typescript, integrating smart contracts built on SUI and working towards refactoring code, understanding web3 nuances, and understanding other tech on the SUI chain along the way. • Worked on making Kriya SDK enitrely on a modern architecture and played an instrumental role in releasing Sacabam rewards and modifying the strategies section on the web app.
Mobile Premier League (MPL)
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 10 months
Remote/Bangalore
SDE
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 3 months
Remote/Bangalore
1).Developed striker.club and all its functionalities. Developed the frontend in Nextjs and Typescipt. Integrated apps Google tag and headers for download and viewership metrics. 2).Also handled the integration of SEO, analytics tools as the sole developer which serves as the only point of distribution of the striker app. Developed i-frames for striker app. 3).Integrated strapi CMS with a dashboard to control data and content for the website. 4). Kept rehauling the website whenever necessary as per design, product and marketing requirements. 5). Integrated website with appsflyer, made web crawling feasible with use of SSR in NextJS. Worked on features to rank website higher and make its ever expanding state more flexible. 6). Worked on ops dashboard for the striker app that enabled ops and QE team to test change. Worked with GRPC, Typescript and Nodejs for the backend. Dropped important features and changes including major change of Leaderboard addition to the dashboard. Also integrated freshchat into the website. 7). Made Bottomsheets for Ultra Fantasy feature for the Mobile App using React Native and Typescript. Used Jenkins pipeline for CI/CD and GCP instance for deployment.
Software Engineering Intern
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
7 months
PPO offered Part of the Development Engineering vertical of MPL. 1).Developed an admin Dashboard for a zookeeper system using Nextjs and Prisma with Postgresql that will allow node history to have role-based access, admin given node-based access and an event log to track the changes. 2).Made a Joi validation workflow to validate all config files uploaded in the zookeeper dashboard. 3).Also made an API doc with search indexing functionality using Elastic Search. Tech stack: Nextjs, Nodejs, Postgresql, Zookeeper, Elastic Search
Software Engineering Intern
Glance
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
6 months
Remote/Bangalore
I worked as a Software Development Intern here as part of PS2 programme of BITS Pilani. 1). Worked on UI fixes for shop 101 and their other web apps. 2). Implemented MSFT SSO for all internal panels of shop101 and used RSA encryption for security purposes. 3). Made a daily remittance workflow. 4). Migrated all S3 links to CDN 5). Worked on the Product Image compression tasks by integrating apis and python scripts to compress added images on shop-101 web page. 6). Worked on automation testing of Roposo-clout web-app by adding ids to all click able and interactive components and refactoring wherever necessary. 7). Working on Grabter tool of Roposo web app to add country codes in Report Tool. 8). Worked on adding MSFT SSO to support panel. 9). Worked on Glance live web changes. 10). Worked on adding an admin panel for marking orders as delivered by making UI and integration of APIs. Tech stack used: Vuejs, Nextjs, Typescipt, Handlebars, Express, Amazon EC2, Nodejs, React.
Github Extern
GitHub
Feb 2022 - May 2022
4 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
The GitHub India Engineering works focuses on developer scenarios around GitHub Actions, GitHub Packages, GitHub Insights and GitHub Education. Worked with the education team. Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Postgresql
GSOC'21 at JBOSS
Google Summer of Code
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
3 months
Google Summer of Code at JBOSS community The project aims to Create and Enhance APIs and to produce a well-built backend mechanism related to an Education Platform which strives to enable 100% education and will help in upskilling developing countries and rural areas. 1).The APIS that were created are Doubt Forum API (with Doubts and Doubt Answers), Announcements API, Mentor API, User API, CourseReview API, course Schedule API, Lecture API, and Assignments API. 2).Each of these APIs have proper documentation and testing. 3).Role-based authentication along with firebase authentication had to be added to ensure that the required routes are secured along with some extra features along the way. 4).These APIs are used by the client-side of the app to fetch data and render quality functionality. Tech stack: Nestjs, Typescript, server side Development, Docker
Education
HEC Paris
Masters in Management- Grand Ecole
2025 - 2027
2 years
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Bachelor's degree
2019 - 2023
4 years