# Navi D. > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/navi I’m a Software Engineer who enjoys building systems, APIs, and infrastructure that make everything feel smooth and dependable. I work mostly with TypeScript and Node.js, focusing on clear design, scalability, and security. I care about doing work that lasts: code that’s easy to understand, systems that are resilient, and collaboration that brings out the best in a team. For me, great engineering is about empathy and craft — solving problems in a way that makes life a little easier for everyone who touches the product. A bit more personally, I'm a tennis enthusiast, I regularly get lost in stories and love exploring different parts of the world through culture and food. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Artera Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 • Collaborated on the integration of Microsoft-based single sign-on (SSO) for an enterprise partner portal, implementing secure token exchange and session management to enable seamless authentication between systems • Played a key role in migrating the developer portal from Kong to an in-house solution, integrating Auth0 for authentication and developing a custom request access flow for external APIs, building out the in-house user-faceing app, resulting in reduced platform costs by 30%, streamlined vendor access management, and improved overall system efficiency • Assisted on the migration to a service mesh architecture using Istio and dual ingress gateways to segregate internal and external traffic, replacing legacy routing and enabling secure, scalable access to APIs via the external developer portal • Replaced opaque tokens with JWT authentication to strengthen message integrity, reduce dependency on the auth service, and enable external verification of signed API requests • Presented Request for Discussion (RFD) documents to introduce and advocate for new processes and emerging technologies, driving innovation and fostering team alignment on key technical decisions • Built and deployed new schemas and APIs to support expanded external partner use cases, improving system efficiency and enabling smoother, faster integrations • Contributed to a company-wide initiative to raise service test coverage above 90% by designing and implementing end-to-end and integration testing strategies for our team’s services, improving reliability and deployment confidence • Supported implementation of digital-signature authentication for external APIs, enhancing message integrity, compliance, and protection against unauthorized access • Iterated on integrations with external EMR systems to improve reliability, data consistency, and overall user experience within the self-scheduling solution, ensuring seamless communication between platforms ### Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 • Developed and optimized key PDI/EOL features, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery • Deployed connectivity integration systems to production through custom CI/CD pipelines, adhering to strict engineering standards • Created and maintained robust integration tests for APIs and microservices, strengthening reliability across environments • Configured monitoring and alerting systems to proactively notify teams of service degradation or incidents • Improved code quality and test coverage across existing and new codebases to maintain high engineering standards • Served as primary point of contact for external teams during PDI/EOL connectivity testing, technicians, engineers, and PMs. • Recognized by management for critical production support and swift incident resolution ### Software Engineer @ RedisRate (Open Source Product) Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Collaborated on engineering a Full Stack application built on Electron, with React state management library, that also utilized Express Server for backend routing and middleware accessibility to all of the SQL/NoSQL databases. • Combined React, Node.js technologies to bundle into a desktop application that connects and receives requests from a backend server while interacting with routing and middleware functions for multiple connections and instances. • Lead a scrum team in producing an optimized metric visualization tool for Redis Databases. • Implemented a dynamically rendering visualization metric tool, for easy readability for an overall intuitive application. • Stress tested a Redis database with a built in Redis protocol to be able to pull accurate metrics to display inline throughput, latency, memory usage and other important need to know statistics to measure overall instance health. • Administered dynamic front end routing, using React Router, this optimized the responsiveness of the overall application, and reduced load times by minimizing overall requests being made to endpoints, coupling with Webpack for lazy loading. • Collaborated with OSLabs Tech Accelerator in bringing open source Redis utility to developer community. ### Favorite Boba @ Open Source Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Established server connections using implementable Node.JS framework, to manage http response/requests. • Dynamically rendered components through state-management frontend framework, called React for this SPA. • Made use of Webpack, a module bundler allowing minification, uglification of application to build out a seamless product. ### Pink Mode @ Open Source Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Constructed a Chrome Extension that recurses through each DOM element to update content on the page from the current CSS styling to different varieties of pink and manipulates certain key words to new values. ### GG @ Open Source Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Iterated on current open source application to modularize and establish TTD testing environment. • Included testing suites of Jest using Enzyme for checking functionality of react rendered components. • Extended backend endpoint checks with SuperTest to confirm request/responses where working correctly. ### MGG @ Open Source Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Established a connection with Marvel’s API that had an available store of data that was used to maximize the output information for our application with Express server to output to our React application using axios fetching. • Managed frontend fetching requests with easy manipulation of http requests from the frontend of the application by implementing AXIOS requests. ### Software Engineer Fellow @ Codesmith Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Developed Jest and Enzyme tests leveraging snapshot comparison to verify component integrity, reduce visual regressions, and maintain reliability through CI/CD workflows • Performed regular stand ups, sprints, code reviews in an AGILE/SCRUM environment with fellow engineers to achieve autonomy • Conducted technical interviews of prospective engineers with a focus on testing for analytic problem solving, advanced JavaScript concepts and empathetic engineering • Provided training for engineers in full-stack development principles, including but not limited to data algorithms, data structures, DOM manipulation, AJAX, React/Redux, Node.js/Express, NoSQL/SQL databases, testing and authentication procedures • Mentored engineers through the development phase for full-stack open-source applications, employing industry best practices ### Technical Support Representative @ Carl Zeiss Meditec AG Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Dublin, California, United States • Provided constant support, for highly sophisticated ophthalmology devices with precision skill and empathetic support. • Completed Technology specific courses to be able to provide customers with full hardware/software specific support. ### Technical Support Representative @ Vagaro Inc Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Dublin, California • Worked hand in hand with Development & UI/UX Team to confirm new features came out seamlessly, while also creating documentation to further present correct implementation of features for support team and customer base. • Assisted customers with implementing the company's embedded code for Vagaro application into client’s websites. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Minor: Psychology California State University - East Bay ### G.E.D Yadavindra Public School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nnavidhillon --- Source: https://flows.cv/navi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/navi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20