Darshan Rander
Software Developer

About Me
- Currently a Software Engineer at UBS.
- Experienced in Backend, Frontend, and Mobile development.
- Enjoys building scalable web and mobile products, and working with modern cloud infrastructure.
- Active in the tech community, speaker at meetups, and published author.
Skills
- Languages: Dart, Java, Kotlin, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, HTML, CSS
- Technologies: Flutter, Angular, Node.js, React.js, Next.js
Experience

UBS
- Awarded the Engineering Excellence Award for contributions to our suite of applications.
- Migrated frontend applications from on-premises servers to cloud.
- Improved application’s Time to Interactivity by 30% by implementing code splitting and reducing bundle size.
- Built a user feedback mechanism with LLM-based filtering, summarization, and report generation.
Aug 2023 – Present

UBS (Summer Intern)
- Developed an observability stack to monitor and analyze logs of applications.
- Reduced crash recovery and diagnostic time from over 2 hours to under 3 minutes (over 40x reduction).
Apr 2022 – Jun 2022

Stratzy
- Reduced crash rate by 50% using Firebase Crash Analytics to identify and fix crashes.
- Spearheaded major refactoring in the codebase to reduce 5000+ compiler warnings to 500.
- Built multi-theme support for different tiers of users.
- Owned the implementation of the feature for investors to diversify their investments in low and high risk securities.
Mar 2023 – Jul 2023

Posha
- Developed a Flutter app for mobile and the embedded screen on Julia– Posha’s cutting-edge cooking robot.
- Worked with GraphQL for hydrating data and implemented a caching layer improving data loading times.
- Utilized Box2D Physics Engine to build a gamified user on-boarding.
Jul 2021 – Feb 2022

Bombay Teacher's Training College (BTTC)
- Developed an App for BTTC to help them communicate with students.
- Lead a team of four Android Developers.
- Worked on an Android Project with Firebase.
July 2020 - August 2020
Projects


AntiLang
- An interpreted esoteric programming language written in Go that is logically correct but syntactically reversed.
- Developed a custom lexer, parser, and evaluator for the language along with an online code editor embedded with interpreter.
- The interpreter is compiled for all platforms and also to natively run in browsers using WASM.
PicArch
- Python-based face detection and face similarity search tool.
- Integrated InsightFace, a prebuilt model for face encoding and pgvector for efficient storing of image vector embeddings.
- Built to search a given face on a photo library based on faces detected.

Stocker
- Stocker is an App to manage inventory.
- Gives a graphical representation of sales.
- Auto-generated invoice sent to the buyer
Talks

Mumbai Women Coders November'22 Meetup
Server-Side Dart
- Talked about the potential of use of Dart on server side and compared performance benchmarks.

TSEC Dev's Club Flutter Flow
Dart and Flutter basics
- Took a Dart and Flutter basics workshop where attendee created a bill split application from scratch.
Flutter and Dart Basics - CodeVengers
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