Talha Tahir

TestGorilla.com is an online skills based assessment platform that strives to innovate hiring by allowing companies to select and test candidates using their vast pre-made testing suite and assess candidates based on their skill sets. (European series A startup with 70 million USD funding)

• Working on the website team which managed the main testgorilla.com website offered in 12 languages and consists of 18,000 pages using NextJS, Contentful for content and vercel for deployments.
• Writing and shipping high quality code for the website using NextJS and written in Typescript.
• Optimizing our build time using advanced NextJS techniques like ISR and using Next Analyzer
• Adding pre-commit hooks, ESLint rules for codebase. I was the project owner
• Enhanced the overall structure of the codebase to be more readable and developer friendly. I was the project owner
• Adding New pipelines in CircleCI to enable E2E testing on dev-deployments to vercel. I was the project owner
• Writing functional and Visual/Snapshot tests in Playwright for our website.
• Cross collaborate with Marketing and other teams for new feature releases and website A/B testing using VWO.
• Single Handedly implemented and deployed our API documentation in Nextra I was the project owner
• Raise & review PRs for my team.

Skrapp.io is a business enrichment tool for B2B sales outreach & email marketing. Having millions of records about companies and their employees.

• Writing and shipping high quality code for our NextJS Application written in Typescript.
• Working on the skrapp API written in NodeJS and PostgreSQL using REST.
• Working on the chrome extension written in Vanilla JS using gulp and grunt for compilation.
• Working with the CEO & CTO to enhance technical & product capabilities of our application.
• Wrote ChatGPT Open API scripts to auto translate apps in multiple languages. I was the project owner
• Using Next Analyzer to optimize our application and website performance.
• Working and developing their front-facing website written in NextJS
• Raise & review PRs and technical meetings with the CTO to further enhance our applications.

Filestage is a SaaS application that helps creative teams to manage reviews and approvals of videos, audio files, designs and documents.

• Writing and shipping high quality, well tested code for our Frontend
• Devise strategies and roadmaps to ensure Application performance and scalability
• Rewrite and refactor generic UIKit components for all the developers to use. I was the project owner
• Use advanced React techniques like bundle splitting, useCallback, Portals, useMemo, React.Lazy, React.Suspense to keep the bundle size small. I was the project owner
• Work directly with Product Managers and designers on Figma to understand product needs and provide viable solutions.
• Review PRs and hold frontend reviewer meetings once a month to mentor the team to follow best practices and techniques. I was the project owner
• Write customHooks, helpers and work on a new state management solution (zustand).
• Write full page documents on consistent code practices for Javascript and React. Work on NodeJS API and MongoDB to add new collections and write APIs for component data fetching on the Frontend. I was the project owner
• Write new components for features ensuring 100% unit test and code coverage.
• Write backend APIs and add/modify collections using MongoDB Compass.
• Work on migrating our codebase from AngularJS to React 17 in an iterative way. I was the project owner
• Migration from Auth0 to our built-in Authentication system using OTP. I was the project owner.