Darshan Rander

Software Developer

Darshan Rander

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
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
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 Logo
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
Nymble
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
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

Heartry
Heartry
  • 41k+ organic installs on Google Play Store and 5k+ Monthly Active Users (MAU).
  • Enables users to create images from customizable templates for their social media.
  • Implemented auto-backups to Google Drive to align with a privacy-first approach.
Flutter
Google Drive
Android
AntiLang
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.
Golang
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.
Python
PyTorch
Postgres
pgvector
Stocker
Stocker
  • Stocker is an App to manage inventory.
  • Gives a graphical representation of sales.
  • Auto-generated invoice sent to the buyer
Flutter
Appwrite
Python

Talks

Mumbai Women Coders November'22 Meetup
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 Developers Club Flutter Flow
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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