# Parijat Kalia > Lead Software Engineer (UI) at Cornerstone OnDemand Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/parijat Versatile, seasoned software engineer, experienced across the full stack, specialized in UI, subscribe to agile & iterative development ## Work Experience ### Lead Software Engineer @ Cornerstone OnDemand Jan 2023 – Present | Santa Monica, CA Lead the frontend development of two core applications, architect and scale the application, mentor and guide a team of senior developers and interns in frontend development using React and Typescript. ### Senior Software Engineer (UI) @ Cornerstone OnDemand Jan 2021 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States New Product bets ### Senior Software Engineer @ Prosper Marketplace Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area - Leading initiatives to increase code quality coverage, merging the gap between QA teams and development by increasing contribution to automation test suites. - Devised strategies to get rid of tech debt and tech stack evolution without compromising business priorities - Leveraging my prior experience with Agile development to help team members transition into agile as part of our company-wide initiative to transition into an Agile organization. ### Software Engineer UI @ Prosper Marketplace Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Built a POC for "frontend as microservices" and developed the first Micro-frontend app @ Prosper, splitting it from a legacy monolith and thereby solving problems with release bottlenecks, faster development cycles and optimizing the code coverage. - Developed a dashboard application for Prosper's loan borrowers, where they could setup automated payments, make manual payments, monitor their loan payments, receive notifications and an ability to refinance loans. The twin goal of this product is to cut down the cost incurred by customer support providing servicing and to find alternate revenue streams @ Prosper. Technologies: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS -> Node/Express, Angular5 -> React, GraphQL. Docker, Nginx ### Software Engineer (Full Stack) @ Taulia Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Developed supply chain finance software, transitioned from a monolith Groovy on Grails app into a service oriented architecture leveraging Jersey microservices for developing REST API and BackboneJS + jQuery for frontend apps. Learned Agile development, gained experience writing automation and unit tests. I consider Taulia as a place where I transitioned from a nascent engineering talent into an excellent engineer. ### Web Developer @ QuinStreet Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Foster City Addressed frontend performance issues across QuinStreet's portfolio of websites and developed solutions that helped boost Google PageSpeed scores in the 85-90 range for a few critical sites. ### Web Software Engineer @ Balluun Inc Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area - Developed Balluun's landing pages (http://www.balluun.com) - Built membership payment/upgrade modules using Paypal's REST API (since deprecated) - Implemented login & registration modules for 'ShopTheFloor' web app. - Developed a 'Social share bar', that allows users to broadcast status updates, share media and product images within their own network. - Implemented a data import module that imports external legacy data from registered trade shows and normalizes it to be entered into Balluun's database (ask me more) ### Software Engineer Intern @ Boardvantage Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Menlo Park -Implemented a search function that utilizes Sharepoint's web service API to search for documents across sharepoint websites is utilized by both the tablet and desktop product - Implemented a module that allows administrators to relay messages across the system and on multiple applications Technologies: Java, Hibernate, MySQL, Flex, Actionscript ### Software Engineer @ UCLA School of Public Affairs Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Los Angeles - Architected two PHP web applications from the ground up using Symfony 1.4 MVC & Drupal 7 CMS - Symfony powered app is utilized by students as a preparation tool for SATexaminations, presenting them with learning content and practice quizzes. Additionally, the site has features allowing admins to perform CRUD operations on the content and quiz material. - The Drupal powered site has a CRM component that powers administrators to manage the student roster and create static content. ### Frontend engineer (Drupal) @ San Francisco State University Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Part of a team responsible for developing the student portal for San Francisco State University, my work included the following: - Integrate Drupal modules into the website - Theming and UI development ### Software Engineer Intern @ PrepMe Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View - Learnt the MVC paradigm using the Symfony PHP framework and developed new features in a Linux environment ## Education ### Masters in Computer science in Computer science San Francisco State University Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 ### Bachelor of Computer engineering in Computer engineering and Information technology University of Mumbai Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/parijatkalia --- Source: https://flows.cv/parijat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/parijat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22