Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Led cross-functional initiatives, collaborating closely with Product Managers (PMs), UX, and Directors to drive impactful product feature development and technical improvements.
• Spearheaded the creation of custom, reusable, and accessible components, ensuring maintainability, scalability, and seamless user experience, while aligning with the existing design system for consistency. Actively collaborated with PMs to prioritize features and UX teams to align design with user needs.
• Optimized application performance, reducing load time by 40% and significantly improving key performance metrics such as Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Leveraged Lighthouse for performance audits and Webpack Bundle Analyzer to identify and resolve bottlenecks, enhancing responsiveness and user satisfaction. Also, improved rendering performance by adhering to React's best practices(useCallback, useMemo, memoization etc).
• Initiated and led the migration of the testing framework from Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL), aligning with RTL’s user-centric testing philosophy to ensure more reliable and maintainable test suites. Worked with QA teams to ensure tests covered critical user flows and edge cases.
• Exhibited strong leadership through code reviews, product demos, and collaborative planning with Directors, ensuring technical solutions met product goals. Fostered a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Mentored junior developers, providing guidance to overcome complex technical challenges and encouraging professional growth. Facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and improve team capabilities.
• Managed a team of 5 developers, coordinating efforts across engineering, design, and product teams to deliver high-quality features on time while maintaining project goals, stakeholder requirements, and code quality standards.

Oct 2019 – May 2020 · 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Worked on public facing website’s performance improvement. Improved light-house performance score from 40 to 90+ by deferring off-screen images, reducing the size of JavaScript, CSS bundles.
• Improved test coverage by writing unit tests for newly written and old components.
• Created re-usable controls that could be used in the product.

Oct 2011 – Jun 2019 · 7 yrs 8 mos · India

• Provide technical direction and guidance to the team.
• Responsible for design, coding of the features.
• Responsible for design/code/test case/doc reviews.
• Mentor and guide junior members of the team on architecture, design and complex customer escalations.
• Look for ways to reduce development time and time to market by following best software engineering practices.

Dec 2008 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos · India

• Worked on a conversion tool called Agent Conversion Tool. This tool converts business logic stored in a binary format into C# code.
• Evaluated various approaches, architected, designed and did implementation of this complex conversion tool. Came up with a two step approach to convert the code.
• This reduced time to market and development effort.
• Solved some of the challenging problems like expression evaluation in the project.
• Worked on a multi-threaded C++ server component.

Aug 2003 – Nov 2008 · 5 yrs 3 mos · India

• Worked on my releases as a senior software engineer.
• Added features like Converting non-Unicode DB to Unicode.
• Converted code so as to support Unicode.
• Fixed ship-killer issues of the project.
• Successfully delivered enhancements of a product called Toolkit as a team lead. Contributed with design and implementation of some features as an individual contributor as well.
• Toolkit is a customization tool for all the Pivotal CRM suite of applications. It allows writing customized business logic for the production system by providing various capabilities. It’s a complex product written in C++ and some part in C#.

Dec 2000 – Jul 2003 · 2 yrs 7 mos