Gopal Sharma
Team Lead (Software Engineering) & Full-Stack Developer
A passionate software engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable web applications, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering high-impact product features that enhance user experience and drive business growth.
Frontend Architecture
Building scalable React & Next.js applications with Microfrontend patterns, Core Web Vitals optimization, and performance-first design.
Team Leadership
Leading cross-functional engineering teams, driving roadmap execution, mentoring engineers, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
System Design
Architecting high-availability systems with CDN caching, BFF patterns, A/B testing infrastructure, and event-driven analytics.
Resume
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Work Experience
Info Edge India Ltd - 99acres
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Team Lead (Software Engineering)
- Directed a cross-functional team to deliver high-impact product features, enhancing platform competitiveness and improving user satisfaction (4.3/5 on play store).
- Developed a page speed monitoring tool, reduced LCP, CLS & INP from 400 ms to 180 ms and improved other Core Web Vitals, leading to enhanced user retention.
- Devised and implemented adaptive widget positioning, increasing ad visibility and driving 20% higher click-through rates on promoted content.
- Improved platform response times by implementing intelligent CDN-backed Edge caching for key pages, resulting in 1.5× improvement in SEO crawl budget utilization.
- Introduced event tracking across the application, resulting in actionable insights that boosted feature adoption by 30%.
- Optimized app load time by 40% by re-architecting API call flow, enabling backend-for-frontend pattern deferring non-critical data, and introducing component-level lazy loading and pagination improvements.
- Enhanced system availability to 99.9% up-time by anticipating critical issues and leveraging KPIs for monitoring.
Lead Engineer
- Conceptualized and delivered video features (Shorts and Stories), resulting in a 25% increase in user engagement and time spent on the platform.
- Built configurable search and filter options, increasing A/B testing efficiency and driving improvement in data-driven decision-making.
- Championed the transition to a Microfrontend architecture, reducing cross-team dependencies, enabling modular development, and achieving 2X faster feature rollouts.
- Overhauled search result tuples, boosting user experience and driving a 15% increase in CTA's CTR.
Senior Software Engineer
- Proposed and executed a self-hosted key functionalities for cross-site use, reducing development cycle time by 30% and ensuring UI/UX consistency.
- Enhanced no-index URL quality, improving SEO budget efficiency by 30% and boosting crawl performance.
So City
Delhi
Software Engineer
- Engineered an in-house web-based tool, driving a 40% increase in postings via the internal platform by streamlining workflows.
- Automated database backup and restore processes, significantly enhancing data reliability.
- Designed and developed internal APIs to support content creation and publishing workflows for the platform, enabling efficient and reliable content posting across the site.
Skills & Expertise
Languages
Frontend
Backend
Build, Tooling & DevOps
Database
Education
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Jul 2014 - May 2018