# Sagar Gala > UI Engineering at Exaforce Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sagargala Steering innovative web solutions at Exaforce, my expertise lies at the intersection of advanced JavaScript and user-centric design. My tenure as a Software Engineering Manager at Verkada honed my skills in leading diverse teams to develop unified alert platforms, enhancing enterprise security through meticulous and collaborative engineering. At the core of my professional ethos is a commitment to crafting intuitive user experiences and robust frontend architectures. My work in personalized alert systems on web applications embodies this, showcasing a deep understanding of user interaction, along with a dedication to accessibility and GDPR compliance. Our team's efforts have consistently advanced product excellence and customer satisfaction in a dynamic tech landscape. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Exaforce Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area At Exaforce, I play a crucial role as one of the first UI engineers, where I laid the groundwork for our UI using React and TypeScript. My focus is on developing essential UI components and collaborating closely with UX and product teams to design dashboards that significantly improved cloud security analysis. This work not only streamlines our processes but also enhances the security team's ability to mitigate risks and threats effectively. ### Software Engineering Manager @ Verkada Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Managed a small team to work on unified alert platform to serve alerts across multiple devices like Access Control, Alarm and Environmental Sensors. This involved bringing all the stake holders to one room and ensuring effective collaboration and supporting individual teams with their individual requirements and helping them unblock ### Software Engineer @ Verkada Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Led frontend efforts to develop and launch personalized alert experience on web app along with email, sms and push notifications for camera devices which involved working closely with Product team UX Design, Mobile and Backend Engineers ### Senior Software Engineer - SEO/Guest Platform, Growth @ LinkedIn Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area - Building desktop/mobile UI for LinkedIn Guest Pages which are served to guest users before they signup/login and using industry best practices like BEM Methodology and flexbox layout method to create a delightful user experience. - Lead initiatives to ensure that the Guest Pages are GDPR compliant and accessible by adhering to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ### Senior Software Engineer - Communications Platforms, Growth @ LinkedIn Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Built UI for the tools and service to help partner teams send out the right communication (InApp, Email, Push and SMS) to LinkedIn members. We enforce the 5 Rights of our communications: the Right Message to the Right Member at the Right Time on the Right Channel with the Right Frequency. - Supporting UI for the Email Development Platform and help partner teams with onboarding their email and helping them configure the correct email settings and providing code reviews for their email UI code ### Software Engineer - Communications Platforms, Growth @ LinkedIn Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA - Lead the Front-End Development for Email Templates and efficiently design the template to render perfectly on Desktop/Web/Email Clients - Developed internal tools to ease the internal workflow and worked on desktop/mobile Front-End for the settings page to control how and when the users can be notified via email, push or in-app notifications ### Software Engineer - Contrail SDN Solutions @ Juniper Networks Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 - Worked on Web UI for Contrail SDN solution, a Juniper product using JQuery, Bootstrap, KnockoutJs, Backbone.js, D3 and other open-source Javascript plugins to create a rich user experience. - Collaborated with the upper management to provide a rich user experience for the application and contributed to the OpenContrail Git Code Repository (https://github.com/sgrgala). ### Software Engineer @ Purity Cosmetics Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 - Worked on complete front-end of Incville.com, a social network for businesses using jQuery and customized open source jQuery plugins to improve user experience and jQuery mobile to develop the mobile site. - Designed and developed a complete web application framework based on MVC design pattern and lead contractors to deliver a bug-free application to the users ### Software Developer Intern @ RockLive Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 - Extended front-end functionality to the company website using Jquery, HTML/CSS and native javascript - Contributed on developing an existing API build on Kohana (PHP Framework) and mySQL for the requests from Mobile Applications - Researched on noSQL technologies like Apache's Cassandra inorder to support large scalable data ### Software Engineer Intern @ Social Cloud, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 - Developed a web application using Zend (PHP Framework), Jquery, HTML/CSS, mySQL ### Student Web Developer @ USC Gould School of Law Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Worked on USC Law School web portal using Coldfusion, HTML, CSS and JavaScript ### Student Worker @ University of Southern California Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 - Responsible for prepping, indexing and scanning the admission applications received. ## Education ### Masters in Science in Computer Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor in Engineering in Computer Engineering University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sagargala --- Source: https://flows.cv/sagargala JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sagargala/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01