Sowmya Vetrikannan

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in Angular with over a decade of experience.
Architected LLM-driven systems reducing developer overhead by 80%.
Led complex UI migrations ensuring high performance and compliance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Frontend Engineer with expertise in UI modernization and AI-driven productivity.

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Skills

Core Skills

AngularTypescriptUser Interface DesignReact.jsAsp.netAngularjsNode.js

Other Skills

RxJSFront-End DevelopmentCascading Style Sheets (CSS)REST APIsHTML5BootstrapCoding StandardsCode ReviewJasmine FrameworkUnit TestingLLM-Driven Engineering ProductivityASP.NET MVCASP.NET Web APIiOS DevelopmentSwift (Programming Language)

About

Lead Frontend Engineer | 10+ Yrs | Angular (v1-20) Expert | UI Modernization & LLM-Driven Engineering Productivity I am a Lead Frontend Engineer dedicated to building high-performance, scalable enterprise architectures. My expertise lies in bridging the gap between sophisticated user interfaces and modern engineering productivity. Strategic UI Leadership & Modernization: With over a decade of experience, I specialize in Angular (v1-20), TypeScript, and RxJS. I have a proven track record of leading high-stakes UI migrations—such as moving massive enterprise platforms from Angular v8 to v15—while enforcing strict WCAG 2.1 accessibility and i18n compliance. I focus on creating reusable design systems that reduce development cycles and ensure 90%+ unit test coverage. AI-Enabled Engineering & Automation: Recognizing AI as a critical force multiplier in the current market, I specialize in LLM-driven engineering productivity. At Cisco, I architected an LLM-powered PR review system using GPT models that reduced developer overhead by 80%. By enforcing automated coding standards and deduplicating comments, this system significantly decreased production bugs and elevated overall code quality to SonarQube A-grade compliance.

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Cisco systems (india) private limited, bangalore

Software Engineer

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru · Remote

AI-Enabled Engineering & Workflow Automation:
Architected an LLM-Powered PR Review System: Designed and implemented an automated review engine leveraging GPT models integrated with Jenkins PR hooks. The system performs real-time analysis of code submissions to provide actionable feedback on coding standards, security vulnerabilities, and deduplicated comments.
Significant Productivity Gains: This initiative successfully reduced developer manual overhead by 80%, streamlining the code review lifecycle and ensuring uniform quality across the organization.
End-to-End Manifest Automation: Engineered a system that monitors GitHub repositories for merged PRs, triggers Jenkins builds, and automatically updates container image manifests, further reducing developer friction.
Enterprise UI Modernization & Platform Architecture:
Strategic Angular Migration (v8 to v15): Led the complex technical transition of the CNC infrastructure platform from Angular 8 to 15, resolving legacy technical debt and significantly enhancing frontend runtime performance.
Modular UI Development: Delivered a library of 10+ reusable UI components for the CNC platform, alongside a dynamic dashboard featuring customizable "dashlets" for proactive network monitoring.
Real-Time Monitoring Solutions: Built and maintained a Service Health Dashboard that provides real-time status tracking to prevent escalations and improve network reliability.
Engineering Excellence & Compliance:
Quality Transformation: Strategically reduced static analysis issues from 750 down to <20, drastically improving long-term maintainability.
Robust Testing Frameworks: Revolutionized the testing culture by increasing unit test coverage from <10% to 85%, enforcing strict PR quality gates and achieving SonarQube A-grade compliance.
Cross-Functional Support: Collaborated extensively with backend teams to debug and resolve Golang issues across CNC modules, ensuring seamless service integration.

AngularTypeScriptRxJSFront-End DevelopmentCascading Style Sheets (CSS)REST APIs+7

Persistent systems

Engineering Lead

Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Led migration of 25+ Dojo widgets to Angular 8, boosting page-load performance by 40%.
Integrated WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility and increased unit test coverage to 90%.

AngularTypeScriptRxJSREST APIsFront-End DevelopmentCascading Style Sheets (CSS)+6

Wipro

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

Developed and maintained UI components for Citi Bank’s internal platforms, ensuring timely
delivery and performance.
Built reusable Angular component library (tables, modals) reducing dev time by 25%.
Migrated 15+ legacy Angular components to React.

ASP.NET MVCJasmine FrameworkUser Interface DesignBootstrapREST APIsHTML5+8

Career break

Caregiving

Nov 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Skidata ag

Software Engineer

Mar 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore · On-site

Built UI and Backend features for loyalty.logic platform in AngularJS and .NET.
Designed and implemented a .NET-based backend configuration interface enabling client
organizations (e.g., football teams, skiing clubs) to customize website themes (colors, logos,
images), select modules/features, and upload translation files for language support – reducing
onboarding time from 3 weeks to under 1 week.
Created iOS app using Swift.

ASP.NET MVCiOS DevelopmentUser Interface DesignREST APIsAngularJSCoding Standards+8