Experience
Greater Seattle Area
2021 — 2023
Greater Seattle Area
During my tenure as Engineer at Nordstrom, I have been actively engaged in a variety of projects, showcasing my technical expertise and contributing significantly to the growth and functionality of our team's offerings. These projects have spanned various aspects of our organization's operations, with a particular focus on enhancing the user experience and optimizing our store point-of-sale experiences.
➢ Working on critical projects at Nordstrom, including the development of Store Orders (DTC application) and modernizing point-of-sale applications.
➢ Played a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth functioning of applications during high-traffic events, such as Nordstrom's anniversary sale. Demonstrated leadership in addressing incidents, including a major P2 incident during the sale, resulting in successful issue resolution and minimal customer impact.
➢ Implemented feature flagging for controlled releases, improving testing and deployment processes.
➢ Enhanced observability and troubleshooting capabilities through the development of New Relic dashboards and efficient Splunk logs, contributing to a more robust and efficient system monitoring.
➢ Collaborated seamlessly with product management, design teams, and cross-functional teams to align project outcomes with user needs and strategic business goals. Actively participated in discussions with service teams to optimize system performance and address critical bugs.
➢ Assumed a leadership role while working on POS+, overseeing features and guiding the team to timely delivery. Showcased leadership and teamwork skills by leading a successful hackathon project.
➢ Committed to mentorship, providing continuous support and guidance to fellow engineers.
➢ Advocated for changes to engineering standards, influencing REST JSON response guidelines for improved and standardized approaches. Organized biweekly knowledge transfer sessions, promoting effective knowledge sharing among team members.
San Jose, California, United States
➢ Engaged with Cisco Systems, Inc. to develop robust internal web applications catering to the diverse needs of employees, vendors, and merchants.
➢ Proficiently contributed to both front-end and back-end development, utilizing React, Javascript, and Java technologies.
➢ Demonstrated expertise in implementing best coding practices and employing object-oriented programming techniques across various projects within an agile environment.
➢ Proactively analyzed user requirements, proposing and implementing innovative software solutions to meet and exceed expectations.
➢ Noteworthy accomplishments include designing applications for streamlined large-scale networking product orders and creating tools for disseminating crucial information on new products and their testing results.
2019 — 2019
Santa Clara, California, United States
➢ Alectio is an early stage startup company that offers a SAAS platform to help other ML companies build their models with less resources
➢ As part of a team I built the application from conceptualization phase to deployment phase by implementing most of the important components contributing to the total application
➢ Developed components like single sign on, landing page, customers profile, Charts, email communications, core business functionalities etc.
➢ Implemented REST APIs using python flask to drive and perform all the required backend operations
➢ Deployed the application to production using AWS services like EC2 instances, S3 Bucket, Load Balancers etc.
De Kalb, Illinois, United States
I worked for the Illinois Interactive Report Card which provides educators, students, and parents with an array of useful information about schools and learning trends in Illinois. IIRC features easy-to-understand graphics, information screens, and color-coded performance measures for each of 4000 public schools and 868 school districts in Illinois
Responsibilities :
➢ Developed server-side code using ASP.NET MVC 5 framework and C# as the back-end coding language
➢ Designed user interface using HTML, Bootstrap and CSS integrated with Razor view engine
➢ Developed code using Angular to support single page application features
➢ Handled version control of application code using Git
➢ Performed unit testing for the code module that is to be integrated with the existing application
➢ Involved in Scrum meetings to gather inputs from other teams in the project
Education
2017 — 2019
Northern Illinois University
Master of Science - MS
2017 — 2019
2013 — 2017
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada
Bachelor's degree
2013 — 2017