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Shibu Lijack Alangararaj

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in fullstack software development with a focus on scalability.
  • Proven track record in leading accessibility initiatives.
  • Strong background in microfrontend architecture and performance optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Fullstack Developer with strong expertise in frontend technologies and operational excellence.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavascriptWeb Development

Other Skills

AJAXAlgorithmsAngularJSCC++CSSCoachingCore JavaData StructuresDatabasesEmber.jsFront-end DevelopmentGraphQLHTMLHTML 5

About

I am driven by a curiosity to solve complex problems at scale and I enjoy work that challenges me to learn and apply new technologies to deliver efficient, reliable, high quality software.My career started in the gaming industry at Scientific Games, where I worked on the operating system for slot games. Having always been an entrepreneur at heart, I wanted to work in a startup, which led me to Freshdesk (now Freshworks), where I thrived as a web developer across multiple products, building deep expertise in UI and frontend technologies.Today at LinkedIn, my role has evolved to encompass fullstack software development. I provide technical leadership by driving strategic initiatives, spearheading the scalability of enterprise software solutions and driving operational excellence.

Experience

13 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Linkedin

4 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • LinkedIn Talent Solutions - Integrations UI lead

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2024Jan 2025 · 9 mos

  • Technical leadership: Spearheaded the scalability of LSS Embedded Experiences (EE) by driving strategic initiatives, including tech migrations, testing improvements and oncall process optimisations, thereby enhancing delivery efficiency for LSS Sales Navigator widgets on the web.
  • Operational excellence: Established a structured Salesforce release testing process for Sales Navigator widgets, leveraging Partner Engineering for execution, resulting in improved reliability and an annual cost savings of $30K.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Partnered with engineering, product, and external vendors to resolve Salesforce security audit, enabling the production rollout of new Embedded Experiences features to large enterprise customers and documented best practices for future use.
  • Craftsmanship: Reduced deployment failures by resolving flaky tests, increasing build and deployment success rates by 25% and boosting developer productivity.
  • Accessibility advocate: Led an a11y audit of widgets, triaged issues and quickly resolved a few dozen accessibility tickets—achieving critical FY25Q2 accessibility targets ahead of schedule.

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2021Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Microfrontend architecture: Designed and implemented the microfrontend refactoring of LinkedIn Groups, splitting the monolith into separate bundles for members and organizers, enhancing user experience by reducing page load times and enhancing developer experience through code isolation and faster builds.
  • Feature lead: Delivered high-impact features for LinkedIn Groups, including a dashboard for Groups Analytics and automated member approval workflows, addressing key organizer pain points and boosting user engagement.
  • Tech strategy: Proposed and developed proof-of-concepts for migrating Sales Navigator widgets to React.js, evaluating microfrontend approaches and outlining a detailed execution plan tailored to LinkedIn's technical ecosystem.
  • Accessibility champion: Drove accessibility compliance (Grade C) for Sales Navigator widgets, hosted talks on accessibility during NDEAM, and led Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) initiatives at LinkedIn's Bangalore office.
  • Build and Test optimization: Achieved a 50% reduction in build times and a 30% reduction in test execution times for LinkedIn Sales Insights, leveraging deep expertise in the Ember build system to significantly enhance developer productivity.
JavaScriptWeb DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentEmber.js

Software Engineer

May 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Modernized codebase: Migrated the LinkedIn Groups engine to ES6 native classes and angle bracket syntax, laying the groundwork for an upgrade to Ember Octane and enhancing code maintainability.
  • UI champion: Led Project Mercado, introducing a refreshed look and feel for LinkedIn Groups and PINT, improving user experience and engagement.
  • Feature development: Designed and implemented the UI for LinkedIn Events analytics, providing impactful insights for event organizers and driving better decision-making.
  • Craftsmanship: Developed shareable, performance-optimized Glimmer components for Groups and Events, ensuring consistency and efficiency across the platform.
  • Community and culture advocate: Contributed to key initiatives like Project InnerCircle (promoting LinkedIn Groups), Project Inclusive Language, and EmberJS Bangalore meetups while actively organizing InDay events and championing LinkedIn’s values.

Freshworks

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2017May 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • ≫ Ember.js expert@Freshworks. Architect of `Nucleus` - a component library for Freshworks built as Ember addons based on the unified design language called the Freshworks DSM.
  • ≫ Migrated the entire test suite (5000+ test cases) of Freshdesk Ember.js app from Mocha to QUnit using codemods.
  • ≫ Ember upgrade expert. Incrementally upgraded Freshdesk app from 2.18 to 3.4.
  • ≫ Implemented frontend best practices [code splitting & refactoring] and improved the app's Lighthouse performance score by 60%.
  • ≫ Trained with ARIA accessibility principles.
  • ≫ Automated the integration and deployment pipeline using Github Actions.

Software Engineer

May 2015May 2017 · 2 yrs

  • ≫ Developed the corporate websites for Freshdesk, Freshservice and Freshchat.
  • ≫ Improved the performance of all the static websites owned by Freshdesk by implementing web best practices such as service workers, lazy image loading and critical CSS rendering.
  • ≫ Developed a responsive Wordpress theme for the company’s official blog sites.
  • ≫ Revamped the language sites by developing a framework using Middleman (static site generator) integrated with OneSkyApp (translation management tool).

The ticket resale

Co-Founder

Mar 2017Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Remote

  • We set out to build a ticket resale platform that would enable users to buy and sell extra movie tickets in a simple & efficient manner.
  • We launched the BETA version of www.theticketresale.com on March 19, 2017. On the very first day, we got around 1K unique users and 8K pageviews. At its peak, we had close to 38,000 users buying and selling movie and concert tickets using our platform.

Scientific games

Associate Software Engineer

Oct 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Designed & developed the User Interface for a Web Application based on .NET MVC 4 pattern
  • Implemented one of the core modules "Jackpot" in a short duration.

College of engineering, guindy

CTF Student Director

May 2012May 2013 · 1 yr · Chennai Area, India

  • I am one of the web team core members of CTF. I have designed websites for various events in my college.
  • 1. TEDxCEG: http://tedxceg.com
  • 2. aBaCUS'12: http://abacus.org.in
  • 3. Prodigy'11: http://prodigy.ceglug.org
  • 4. Kurukshetra'13: http://kurukshetra.org.in

Google summer of code

Intern

Feb 2012Jun 2012 · 4 mos

  • As a part of GSoC’12, I got an opportunity to contribute to the popular Open Source forum software - phpBB.
  • https://area51.phpbb.com/contributors/

Techpassion pvt ltd.

Summer Intern

Jun 2011Aug 2011 · 2 mos

  • Designed and Developed a website based on CMS for the TechPassion Pvt Ltd.
  • http://techpassiontech.com/

Education

College of Engineering, Guindy

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Sri Jayendra Golden Jubilee School

Mathematics and Computer Science

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