Results-oriented Staff Engineer with 13+ years of experience in full-stack platform development across web, mobile, and cloud. I drive technical strategy and architect secure, scalable systems that deliver impactful, user-centered products. My leadership empowers high-performing teams to achieve exceptional outcomes.
Experience
2022 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
• Led a team of front-end developers in designing and implementing user interfaces for web applications, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Led the design and development efforts for a new web application leveraging Next.js, a React-based framework, to enhance performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Leveraged AWS services such as AWS AppSync for building scalable GraphQL APIs, AWS Lambda for serverless computing, and AWS Amplify for full-stack development, facilitating rapid development and deployment of web applications. Implemented AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model) with CloudFormation to define and deploy serverless applications, optimizing resource management and infrastructure as code practices.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and back-end engineers to deliver high- quality software products within project timelines.
• Mentored junior engineers, conducting code reviews, providing technical guidance, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Migrated CI/CD pipeline from Jenkins to Github actions.
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
• Assumed the role of Lead Front end developer for the Rewards and Incentives team, steering the team towards successful project completion.
• Developed common reusable components that were adopted across Rally and UHG by different apps, enhancing efficiency and consistency.
• Initiated and executed a roadmap for migrating rewards UI from Angular to React, successfully completing the transition. Managed the migration of 4 internal tooling applications from Angular to React, ensuring smooth transition and minimal downtime.
• Implemented Rally Design System (Design tokens) for theming apps across Rally and UHG, improving user interface consistency.
• Proactively identified performance issues in rewards-ui and implemented improvements, resulting in a 35% performance increase.
• Reduced mono repo build time by removing unwanted packages and simplifying bootstrapping and loading of the application with lazy loading, enhancing efficiency.
• Played a key role in building CI/CD pipelines and transitioned several applications from manual deployment to CI/CD, improving deployment speed and reliability.
• Streamlined the efforts of 3 UI teams, fostering collaboration and efficiency.
• Implemented automation testing using WebDriverIO and integrated it with CI pipeline.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked on a marketing platform, ON24, aimed at engaging customers and converting that engagement into valuable data to drive pipeline and revenue.
• Spearheaded the migration of legacy front-end code to modern frameworks (React.js), resulting in improved performance and maintainability.
• Created a roadmap and led a team to make the application 100% accessible.
• Headed a team to redesign the mobile version of the application from scratch using the latest tech stack (React.js).
• Enhanced the live streaming performance of the application by implementing HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) with a Linux Wowza server.
• Implemented Digital Rights Management (DRM) for streams.
• Developed a QA bot which significantly reduced response time for user questions asked during the webinar.
• Successfully migrated version control system (VCS) from Perforce to Git, streamlining the development process and improving collaboration among team members.
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Sunnyvale, California
• Tasked with the architecture and implementation of the front-end layer for the iCloud Support App, a unified portal for Apple Care agents/advisors globally, assisting with device or account issues.
• Developed a framework to automate the escalation workflow in a Role/Permission based application, resulting in a 75% reduction in customer problem resolution time.
• Implemented accessibility features, enabling Apple to build a team of vision-impaired advisors.
• Proposed and developed a prototype for migrating the legacy codebase from jQuery/Backbone to Angular or React and Redux.
• Served as a UI lead, providing guidance and proposing UI enhancements for various projects and teams within the iCloud area.
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Mangalore Area, India
Front End Developer
Education
Jaypee University of Information Technology