Vinit Soni Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Enterprise Search powered by AI: Ask anything, receive an instant answer.

Leading SaaS Product Delivery in various projectsTRCO:Comprehensive COVID-19 platform (fully-loaded quantitative + non-quantitative features)Mobile-first, minimal React-based UI produced through iterative LEAN user research centered on ease of access and consumptionPerpetual ahead-of-time data pipelining and aggregation for fresh, curated data on.

Led various projects across Wish's consumer platform (Homepage team).Led multiple initiatives responsible for increasing various top-line metrics such as GMV, user engagement, basket-size, etc.Rapid decision making with data driven A/B testing.Projects include but not limited to:- Migration and deployment of updated media storage system (zero downtime).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Improved DB query time by ~2.3x by parallelizing data-layer queries tofetch MongoDB data concurrently
• Lead the creation of a Media Sharing feature across multiple domains(Web, iOS, Android) whilst managing the server-side API implementation
• Implemented a smartly-ordered media feed algorithm from end-to-endusing dynamic elements such as “likes” and “views”
• Implemented a Model-View-Intent framework structure to transitionfrontend from monolithic components to SoC-based classes

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Introduced an in-order assertion module to ensure appropriatemembership authorization and prevent loophole attempts
• Designed a plan to migrate the company’s primary subscriptions table tointroduce better scalability with more plan types

San Francisco Bay Area

• Assembled and deployed high-availability data services from scratch usingKubernetes, AWS, and Vault
• Co-designed and implemented a Threat-Model to secure in-transit and at-rest data utilization of an internal sensitive-metrics service
• Configured distributed configuration management on multiple servicesusing SaltStacks

• Implemented a Cryptographic Signing and Encryption Protocol for DataTransfer Channels to protect against MITM, Impersonation, and Tamperingin NodeJS and React
• Created a Key Storage System to securely use and store user keys
• Bootstrapped a Credential Transaction Flow to transfer and use VerifiedCredentials across multiple accounts-based systems

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Created a database migration application to automatically manage data-model updates
• Improved newsletter turnover by automating media (e.g. images)integration, content generation for the newsletter team
• Added sandbox testing for components and logic to improve UserExperience

• Optimized content generation run-time by 41% by refactoring to a multi-threaded implementation in Java/Clojure
• Incubated a containerized SEO-based web platform (backend and frontend)using Docker and by applying the Server-Side Rendering paradigm in React
• Developed a custom notifications service on the server-side (Node) and theadmin portal

Waterloo

• Improved search result accuracy by 78% after adding contextual search tohandle multi-dimensional queries
• Decreased latency periods by 55% by refactoring to socket-based networkcommunication
• Added segmentation analysis to data layer to categorize datasets in real-time

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Waterloop (Waterloo's Hyperloop Team), Hack The North, YHacksJust me and my silicon, one byte at a time.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Student Activity Council, Electronics Club, DECA, FIRST Robotics Team 188, Stage CrewGraduated with a cumulative.