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Kamalakannan Nandagopal

Software Engineer

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India9 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led cross-functional teams to deliver key projects.
  • Achieved significant performance improvements in applications.
  • Mentored engineers to enhance team capabilities.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in frontend development and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementWeb DevelopmentPerformance ImprovementSystems DesignFrontend Development

Other Skills

CC++CI/CDContinuous Integration (CI)Customer ServiceData SynchronizationEmber.jsGitHTMLHTML5JavaJavaScriptManagementMicroservicesMicrosoft Excel

About

As a Staff Software Engineer and an Engineering Manager at Postman, I lead the Client Platforms initiatives that builds and maintains the core platforms that help Postman build faster, better, more efficient capabilities. I oversee the technical architecture, code quality, and performance of the app, as well as the hiring, mentoring, and growth of the engineers on my team.

Experience

Postman

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2021Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Helped with planning several org-wide initiatives, set clear goals, reviewed architecture/designs that achieve both current and future business requirements
  • Hired and expanded performance and web-platform teams. Mentored and sponsored several members within and outside of my team to grow and lead successful projects through clear feedback and alignment
  • Led a project made up of members from several teams with cross-functional skills to build, deliver, observe, and improve the very first version of Postman as an extension within VS Code
  • Helped research, validate, and introduce microfrontends architecture for scaling frontend development in Postman through web pack module federation and monorepo tooling
  • Led a team that shipped several performance improvements on the Electron.js based Postman desktop application including a 30% improvement in launch times, a 25% reduction in app size, and several instances of high CPU usage issues
  • Improved performance of a large single-page application that took more than 17s to load down to 2.5s
ManagementWeb DevelopmentEmber.jsREST APIsContinuous Integration (CI)electron.js+9

Engineering Manager

Feb 2020Mar 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Took responsibility of the team that built and maintained several frontend SDKs and platforms
  • Helped design microservice that powered distribution of Postman on the web and improved development practices through branch previews
  • Helped the team deliver a significant technical transition to support browser based application in addition to Electron based desktop application, without requiring a significant rewrite
  • Ran an org-wide initiative to unify technology stack for front-end development across all teams
  • Improved the front-end architecture of Electron desktop apps to remote load the UI, leading to much faster development and delivery cycles, and improved cost savings
  • Hired, mentored, and grew several high-performing members
  • Setup systems and processes for maintaining highly available backend systems
ManagementWeb DevelopmentMicroservicesFrontend DevelopmentProject ManagementEngineering Management

Technical Lead

Jul 2019Feb 2020 · 7 mos

  • Led development and delivery of several features
  • Completely redesigned and developed a new data synchronisation system between Postman desktop application and Postman cloud services. This led to a significant improvement in load time and memory usage on the app, and drastically reduced the throughput of the APIs
  • Architected, implemented, and delivered the project for custom viewlet based UI and tab management system on Postman desktop app
  • Mentored members of my team to improve their technical and product development skills
Web DevelopmentData SynchronizationUI Development

Zoho corporation

Member Of Technical Staff

May 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Chennai Area, India · On-site

  • Researched requirements for payroll products for US based small and medium businesses
  • Setup the tech stack for frontend single page application for Zoho Payroll product
  • Introduced CI/CD systems for frontend applications
  • Introduced lightning deployment framework for frontend applications that reduced deployment times from 45 minutes to 5 minutes
  • Led the project for MVP implementation, by interfacing with product, design, and UX leaders
  • Made several platform/framework improvements to Zoho Books
  • Contributed to several libraries within the Ember.js framework
Frontend DevelopmentCI/CDProject ManagementEmber.js

Education

Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of Engineering

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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