Vignesh M

Part of the founding team of Novelship, a Series-A Startup and Asia-Pacific's fastest-growing online marketplace for limited-edition sneakers, apparel, and collectables. • Grew the team from 0 to 20+ Product focused Engineers, Designers and Product Managers. Leading an exceptional, enthusiastic and motivated Team holding a high tenure. • ‘Zero to One’ growth to 500k Users/m and tens of Millions $ in monthly sales through building the product, process, and high-performing cross-functional teams. • Built the Novelship iOS and Android Apps that grossed the top spots (11th in Shopping). 500k+ Installs, 4.8 ⭐ Ratings & 10k+ Reviews. • Established a data-driven organisation by empowering all departments with data intelligence and automation. Led OKRs and KPIs that hold metrics high for cycle time, product delivery, product engagement, reliability, scalability, and security. • Advanced the company in uncertain times and downturns by building COVID-friendly (Storage, BNPL) and customer-engaging products (Raffles, Daily Games) that drove acquisition costs down. Reduced tech costs by 22% in 2022 through optimizing and reworking and cloud infra. • Built over 20 Payment integrations, 10 Logistics integrations, and 6 Language localisations for 20+ countries that provide a localised experience for customers and optimised profit contributions. • Built Novelship Wallet, Finance Ledgers, UGC Lookbook, 15+ Campaign & Promotion Modules, Analytics & Data Platforms, Loyalty-Referral, Cross-border real-time Pricing and Transactions systems. • Handled Due diligence in raising $10 million in Series A, Compliances, Security Audits and certifications like PCI DSS & ISO 27001. • Leading Product Design, Development, Team Hiring-Training-Growth & Budgets, Site Reliability, Data Intelligence, Compliances, Security and Tech Strategy with hyper focus on delivering value to the customers and business.

As part of the founding Team, Built & Launched the Novelship Marketplace Web App, Backend & Database-Services from zero. Scaled the platform from 0 to 100k users/month. • Built the Development & Developer processes for optimal-effective workflows for Designing, Developing, Testing and Launching products. • Built the Cloud Infra with multi-stage environments for development and staging, powered with Continuous Integration, Observability and Security. • Launched Novelship PWA, Performance first, Perfect 100 Goggle Lighthouse score, < 2-second boot-up, <100Kb initial build. Followed Best Web Practices, PRPL, caching and lazy loading patterns. • Built Campaigns and Promotional Features to boost the company's growth, resulting in multi folds of user registration and sales. • Built Localised Currency-Country services for global transactions, which enabled Novelship to become cross-border covering multiple regions. • Integrated multiple Payments, Shipping, Analytics, Data and several Automation tools for transforming Novelship into a customer-friendly and automations enabled App. • Raised 2M$ Seed Round with the successful launch and growth.

Built Excellent Modern UI/UX as a Frontend Engineer for Iorad's Software Applications. • Developed Responsive & High performance UI/UX with rich frontend interactions and experience. • Cross Browser & Platform supported UI that follows modern best practices. • Chrome extension interface to capture and record Web interactions. Tech Stack: JavaScript, ReactJs, Redux, Webpack, Node, BackboneJs, SASS, EJS

5★ Star Rated Full Stack Mentor at Codementor. Where I mentor 1 on 1 live coding and mentoring sessions, long term mentor-ships and offline help. Complete Expertise Profile at: https://codementor.io/vigzmv

Worked as a Full Stack Engineer. Backend Django, Frontend JavaScript and common DevOps. • Developed Backend Modules & REST APIs for iOS/Web clients using Django Rest Framework. • Built Custom Django CMS & Admin Portal with several features to facilitate the Startup's Operations (Creating/Managing Customers/Jobs, Manage Payouts and Customer Charges, Control Client App behaviours etc.) through rich frontend interactions and experience. • Built a Slack Bot to interact with the Backend and provide notification services to the Admins. Tech Stack: Python, JavaScript, Django, django rest framework, MySQL, Redis, Celery, AWS

Worked as a Backend Engineering Intern for a period of 6 months for Finmo and DigiBharat. • Developed Backend Modules & REST APIs for Finmo's Apps using Django Rest Framework. • Built REST APIs for custom User and Admin Portals. • Worked with YesBank UPI/Fund Transfers APIs/SDKs. • Worked with Billdesk Mobile/DTH Recharge APIs/SDKs. • Built automated scheduled tasks in Django. • Performance Optimizations and SEO operations on the landing page. • Tech Stack: Python, Django, django rest framework, MySQL, Shell

• Provided research and support for software improvement and development. • Frontend Web development & Ruby on Rails REST API Authorization. • Tech Stack: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails and popular Web technologies.

• Lead the team of the official MSIT College’s Website. • Developed the Website on Python-Django with PostgreSQL and deployed to Digital Ocean. • Website: http://msit.in

• Front-end UI/UX development with Javascript/Jquery and Web technologies. • Back-end project management in Python-Django. • Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, Python, Django