# Swetha K. > Software Engineer @ Google Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/swetha Experienced software engineer who is passionate about creating functional and aesthetically-pleasing web applications with emphasis on React/Redux, Svelte, Node.js Wide exposure to complete SDLC from design to post-release and ability to work on complex projects with large code bases. Tech Talks (Sponsored by SingleSprout) - GraphQL: A REST API Alternative github.com/swethakunda ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2022 – Present ### Software Engineer @ OS Labs (Open Source Products) @ SvelteStorm Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 • Designed a state visualizer using Visx/D3 to show each component’s maintained state, as well as their relationships to one another within the application, to increase Svelte engineer’s efficiency and ability to develop a highly-dynamic lightweight application • Reduced technical debt by updating the content security policy in Electron to shield the application against cross-site scripting and data injection attacks and by bringing the backend dependencies up-to-date with the latest versions to reduce the overall application load time • Packaged the desktop application created using Electron built upon the Node.js runtime environment with Electron Forge to create a distributable for both Linux and Mac users, providing a springboard for future development in a variety of system environments • Successfully migrated over from Monaco to Codemirror as a text editor for its strong compatibility with the Electron environment and to leverage the multitude of Codemirror’s functions to provide an optimal IDE experience to end-users on desktop and mobile • Participated in daily standups as a part of an Agile Scrum team to meet weekly sprint goals and organize consistent code reviews • Deployed a Svelte-based product landing page built upon GitHub Action’s continuous development platform that provides engineers with a centralized and up-to-date resource for SvelteStorm’s emerging features throughout its development life cycle • Product developed under tech accelerator OSLabs (opensourcelabs.io) ### LinkedAlum (Social Networking app) @ Open Source Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 • Leveraged PostgreSQL’s ACID compliance, reliability, and faster lookup time for storing user data since the data necessitated many-to-many relationship cardinalities to be implemented while storing multiple user posts and their related comments • Implemented authentication through OAuth2 with Passport.js middleware on the server side route handlers built with Express.js to authorize users through Google and provide them with the ease and flexibility of Single Sign-On • Put together a testing suite utilizing Jest which focused on server route testing with supertest.js to ensure the validity of server responses making it easier to scale the application should a need arise in the future ### HyperQ (Online content organizer) @ Open Source Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 • Incorporated Redux to handle state management in a centralized location which made it easier to read and update state from all of the different React components, ensuring consistency across the application • Performed RESTful API calls from the Express.js backend to an external movie database to query a wide selection of digital media • Integrated SQL database to take advantage of the relational data model needed to store user account information; leveraged NoSQL database’s easy scaling capability to store detailed information about the media stored connected to a user’s account ### Healthy Table (Online personal recipe book) @ Open Source Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 • Created a Single Page Application using React Router’s dynamic client side routing to provide a seamless user experience • Implemented React Hooks to keep track of state changes between various functional components displaying recipe details • Followed REST architecture pattern to implement external API calls for accessing recipes collection to be displayed on the web page after filtering and to communicate with Node.js back end to fetch required data from the database • Took advantage of NoSQL database’s flexible document schemas to store a variety of recipe details such as ingredients and directions ### QA Automation Engineer @ Yahoo Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 • Built a UI automation framework using Selenium, XPath, JUnit, and Java to test the display of appropriate ads to the user on their web pages • Designed and developed a generic library of methods with existing Selenium API methods that were used by multiple QA teams • Involved in release procedures as a representative of the QA group to ensure all aspects are covered for production releases ### QA Automation Engineer @ Google Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 • Led the quality assurance of the web based in-house project management application • Developed and maintained UI automation framework in Selenium using XPath for element locators • Used JUnit to write and execute test cases targeted towards testing new functionality and used the internal C++ based automation tool to run the existing regression test suite to ensure the existing functionality is still intact • Load testing was done using Jmeter and openSTA to make sure the application is able to handle large volume of projects • Participated in the meetings with developers to review new features and come up with requirement and test plan documents ### QA Automation Engineer @ Charles Schwab Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • QA owner of user account policies, Funds transfer module, Real-time strategy evaluation module, RSA functionality of the options trading platform • Worked on Integration with Goldman Sachs clearing company, Open Financial Exchange (OFX) Integration • Created automated framework and test scripts for trading platform with in different types of accounts with different buying power requirements. • Responsible for releasing software by working with designers (html pages), systems (registries and DLL’s) and the DBA group (SQL release) ## Education ### Codesmith ### Master's degree in Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology ### Bachelor's degree in Textile Sciences and Engineering The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/swethakunda --- Source: https://flows.cv/swetha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/swetha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22