# Navin Kumar

> Software Engineer at PetSmart

Location: Huntington Beach, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/navinkumar

Software Proficiencies:

-JavaScript/TypeScript (ES6)
-React
-Nextjs
-Node 
-Express 
-Python 
-AWS  
-jQuery  
-SQL 
-NoSQL 
-Mocha 
-Chai 
-Jest 
-Enzyme 
-HTML5 
-CSS3 
-SASS 
-Bootstrap 
-RESTful API 
-Git/GitHub         
-Postman

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ PetSmart
Jan 2022 – Present | Phoenix, Arizona, United States
-Helped deliver newly redesigned flows for companies service products built on JavaScript/TypeScript and React/Next.js
-Implemented a private training option for companies grooming service flow which allowed customers to easily schedule private training classes for pets and increased training revenue by 10% annually. 
-Collaborated with two other engineers to implement a grooming appointment reschedule feature that reduced canceled appointments by 15% and resulted in an increase of $13.5M annually. 
-Assisted in migrating our client side rendered code base to server side Nextjs framework.
-Assisted in migration of cloud services from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
-Mentored junior engineers and performed daily code reviews for pull request merges.

### Software Engineer @ GoodRx
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Santa Monica, California, United States
-Responsible for assisting a team of 5 engineers in building and maintenance of our companies registration flow for tiered Gold members using JavaScript/TypeScript and React/Next.js
-Took ownership of implementing an annual plan pricing option on our web platform which lead to an increase in customer sign-up and registration by 8%
-Assisted in the development and shipment of a SMARTbin project which helped reduce prescription costs for Gold tiered customers by up to 20%
-Aligned with various team members ranging from engineering, product, design, and BI through daily and weekly stand-up, ticket grooming, retro, bug bash and deployment sessions
-Mentored junior engineers in various engineering and configuration tasks and reviewed pull requests

### Software Engineer @ SourceStrike
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Irvine, California, United States
-Collaborated with a team of seven front-end and back-end engineers to develop industry leading configurable online automotive stores used by country wide car dealerships
-Utilized JavaScript/TypeScript to build consumer facing, administrative facing and sales facing platforms using React and Next.js server side rendered frameworks for clients and powered by Nest.js for back-end services
-Performed code reviews and leveraged test driven workflows using Jest and React testing library to achieve testing coverage for all production code
-Collaborated in an agile team environment using Jira and used Git/GitHub for version control

### Software Engineer @ Human Longevity, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater San Diego Area
-Built out a modern, newly designed patient portal using React/Redux workflows to allow easy access to medical reports for patients and medical personnel
-Created customized dashboard for customer service representatives to handle patient requests resulting in increased efficiency by removing the need of operations support to initiate changes   
-Assisted with building out of API endpoints in Python utilizing AWS Serverless Lambda functions
-Deployed code to various environments using automated CI/CD pipelines
-Performed code reviews and utilized test driven workflows
-Collaborated in an agile team environment


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in finance
California State University, Fullerton
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Computer Software Engineering
Thinkful
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/navin1551
- GitHub: https://github.com/navin1551
- Website: https://navin1551.github.io/portfolio/

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Source: https://flows.cv/navinkumar
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/navinkumar/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29