Saumitra Khanwalker
Staff Software Engineer at QuillBot
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSaumitra Khanwalker is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building high-performance front-end systems and scalable web apps that have handled millions of sessions. He combines frontend architecture expertise with a pragmatic focus on performance, having improved e-commerce site metrics using Lighthouse and Chrome DevTools and even created a lightweight JS framework that cut package size by over 20%. Equally at home writing and teaching, he authors technical articles, runs workshops, and has built a developer-focused site with tutorials and sample solutions. His background spans fast-paced startups and product teams at Supr Daily, Swiggy’s InsanelyGood, and QuillBot, where he balances hands-on implementation with mentoring and design-level thinking. Describing himself as an "imaginative rationalist," he leverages creativity plus rigorous engineering to deliver user-centric, efficient frontend experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The Aryan School, DehradunBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
phonegap-plugin7
react-library7
kitchen7
ssl-pinning6
cordova4
http-server3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
proso-io/fobu
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
A Form Builder React library for making customisable forms
Contributions:87 commits, 15 PRs, 82 pushes in 3 months
react-library
saumitra1993/saumitra1993.github.io
Jul 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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