# Uma Parakala > Senior Software Engineer at Duetto | Podcast Co-Host, Desi American Life Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/uma Great at: questioning, identifying problems, and then solving them. 5+ years of experience as a full stack software engineer. Currently working on developing features for a revolutionary cloud-based hotel RMS (revenue management system). I like to focus on the big picture and follow agile scrum methodologies to deliver impactful projects to customers. Experience in: JAVA, MongoDB, ES6, React. RESTful APIs, GraphQL, TypeScript. Hobbies: I love participating in Hackthons (company wide/other) and have even won a few with my teams. Co-Host and creator of Desi American Life Podcast love making new professional acquaintances as well. If you'd like to talk about my passions or my current job please feel free to reach out. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Duetto Jan 2019 – Present - Core developer of a small feature that grew into a flagship product called BlockBuster and generated over 300k in initial POC revenue. - Scrum mastered a team of 6 across US & Argentina to help deliver critical features for BlockBuster after POC. - Worked on a cross product framework that enabled data generation capabilities beyond 365 days which significantly improved the usability and data insight across all our core products. - Helped spearhead the development and foundation work for a POC product valued at 125k. - Tech lead for a handful of integrations for large hotel chains and PMS systems to retrieve hotel reservation data by leveraging the company's ETL framework. ### Software Engineer @ Duetto Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Inovia-team Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 - Implemented a web app that enables business analysts to search over 800+ million records of data to easily classify product and revenue insights. Cut down time from manual classification by 80%. Project utilized Elasticsearch, Node.js, Redux and React. - Contributed to a generic ETL framework that loaded in data at the rate of 600k rows/ sec . Migration was done from Amazon S3 to ElasticSearch cluster. ### Software Engineer @ Object Edge Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Walnut Creek Worked for an e-commerce consulting firm that leverages Oracle ATG Commerce platform to implement successful e-commerce sites. Gained software engineering expertise in Java which helped me become an exceptional observer, problem solver, code explorer, and a self driven learner. - Led development of 10+ key e-commerce driven web pages utilizing Java EE and Endeca content management, product filtering, and search capabilities for our second largest client. - Solved 100+ open tickets within Java EE and Oracle ATG Commerce to improve and maintain Brazil’s #1 online sporting retailer. Leveraged ATG to enable localization, category navigation, faceted search, and product indexing functionality in Java. - Streamlined communication by >60% between infrastructure and support teams by identifying and fixing a procedural bottleneck. Built the HTTP web tool in HTML, JSP, and custom CSS3. -Followed scrum agile development on team of 6 engineers with daily stand-ups and Git for version control.Communicated across 2 offshore teams overcoming multiple language barriers to deliver projects on time. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Object Edge Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Walnut Creek As an Intern, I radically improved the usability aspects of an in-house automating testing framework built in Java and Selenium WebDriver. - Reduced analysis time of regression test results by 50% by engineering an aggregator tool that merged multiple test result files to provide more concise and insightful reports using Java. - Developed an innovative UI using Java Swing for viewing, editing, and launching test flows written by QA testers. Introduced many novel features for users to execute test flows, debug, and understand the concept behind the testing framework. - Improved in-house automation testing framework by collaborating with QA testers about tool requirements, product development, and code refactoring which decreased the code debt and bugs down to 3%. ### Student Programmer @ Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | UC Davis - Developed a Python program that parsed data and used the A* algorithm to simulate a possible path of infection by displaying an animation of livestock disease traversal. - Maintained the department's website and database ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Engineering University of California, Davis Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/uma-parakala --- Source: https://flows.cv/uma JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/uma/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22