Staff Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer(2 years)

responsibilities

• design and implementation of the Kilo design system
• prioritization and scoping of design system components work
• coordination between design, engineering, and product teams
• migration of legacy UIs to new design system components
• develop features for members portal and website using next.js

accomplishments

• implemented a prototype of the Kilo design system using React and Typescript, usable from its first version
• set up CI/CD process to go from git commit, to npm package build, and downstream project update
• increased effectivity of the frontend team by applying the MVP approach to design system development
• lead development of 50+ components including typography, layout, charts, form fields, animations
• improved Electron app using Kilo components to provide stable, reliable, and unified UX

Senior Software Technical Lead(3 years)

Lead several frontend projects of CloudCenter Suite: Installer, Admin, Forge Shell, Forge ACL, Particle Design System

responsibilities

• leading 4 teams of a total of 12 UI developers, working on different projects
• coordination of UI requirements between UI and UX, BE, and QA teams
• management of several projects, their roadmaps, scoping, prioritization, release timings, and overlaps
• hiring, training, mentoring, and management of remote contractors

accomplishments

• lead implementation and delivery of the Particle Design System with 100+ React UI components
• kicked off the development of a framework for multi-product UI shell (Unified suite of products)
• set up processes to achieve regular releases and flexible deliverables timelines for the consumer teams
• created a prototype of visual regression testing framework, and handed it over to Particle team
• improved and automated release process of our javascript tools (from hours to few minutes)
• delivered UI components to improve DX and reduced time-to-production (from weeks to days)
• created Sketch template for Particle Design System and shared with UX team for extending it
• set up an in-house app to document and share React components among different projects
• designed frontend plugins architecture enabling common UI customization from products codebases
• integrated components library into new and existing Cisco products
• developed prototype of components library and docs site
• created starter kit project for a new suite products UI

Software Technical Lead(2 years)

Worked on several projects: Multisite Controller, Workload manager, Core team

responsibilities

• projects roadmap planning, scoping, prioritization of tasks for the teams
• continuous improvements of in-house UI framework
• frontend architecture and prototypes implementation
• UI build process and code handoff to other teams
• doing 1:1s, mentoring, and guiding UI developers in Europe, India, and the USA
• interviewing, onboarding and training contractors

accomplishments

• sped up UX/UI feedback loop by prototyping the UI in iterations, exercising LEAN principles
• educated team by doing regular technical presentations on frontend/architecture topics
• increased UI reliability and developers confidence by integrating end-to-end UI testing framework

Software Engineer(8 months)

responsibilities

• development of web components design system based on Material UI
• implemented features for Esticom product using typescript, react and mobx

Software Technical Lead(1 year)

responsibilities

• cross-team coordination, scoping and prioritizing implementation
• creating and maintaining an internal frontend engineering WIKI
• build process improvements and maintenance (maven, grunt, webpack)
• research and prototyping of new features (charts, topology builder, UI components)
• team training and mentoring

accomplishments

• educated team on latest javascript trends, leading to more enthusiasm and developers happiness
• increased skills and confidence of several team members by mentoring and 1:1 sessions
• reduced boilerplate on UI by introducing ES6 to the team, and making it part of dev/build processes
• implemented build time options, allowing customization of UI code and allowing product white labeling
• researched and evaluated various UI architectures to modernize UI stack (React, Riot, Web components, Knockout, Can)

Staff Software Engineer(1 year)

responsibilities

• improving and extending existing UI framework based on Backbone.js
• interviewing and onboarding UI candidates into US and India offices
• code reviews, providing feedback and educating team by example

accomplishments

• performed interviews, onboarding, 1:1s, mentoring of engineers in the USA, and India
• used Javascript and ES6 for development of CloudCenter UI
• improved and maintained internal UI framework based on Backbone
• established a framework a process for testing of javascript business logic
• integrated tools to automate development process and stabilize code quality (shell scripts, node tools)
• researched several areas and worked on various prototypes (charts, topology builder, components)
• prototyped Topology Builder UI for N-tier applications modeling
• implemented UI for performance monitoring using charts
• educated frontend developers on best practices in javascript and frontend development

Software Engineer(1 year)

responsibilities

• improving and extending existing UI framework based on Backbone.js.
• marketing site maintenance and improvements (integration with the product to provide self-sign up service, App Store)

accomplishments

• migrated major portion (100+ files ~ 30 web pages) of web app written in JSP to Backbone
• increased chances of attracting talented developers by proposing to move from Backbone to React
• implemented Flux pattern (before Redux) used with early React.js library for new product features
• designed and implemented Sandbox tool for development and documentation of React component

Software Engineer(1 year)

responsibilities

• integration between backend APIs, website and browser extensions
• designing and implementing new UI features for cross-browser extension

accomplishments

• implemented Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers add-ons in javascript and HTML5
• used Ruby, Rails, Postgresql, TDD for implementation of REST services for the add-ons
• improved DX by automating the build of cross-browser add-ons

Software Team Lead(2 years)

responsibilities

• training and managing team of 4 web developers
• tasks scoping, prioritization, and on-time features delivery
• products development, optimizations, maintenance, and improvements

accomplishments

• created an internal app to drive product configuration (reduced processes and time from days to minutes)
• documented product software architecture and trained new UI developers in the San Francisco office
• integrated gulp, tdd libraries, jslint, to improve DX, performance and reliability of javascript UI

Software Engineer(4 months)

responsibilities

• interviewing and hiring engineers for the office in the Czech Republic
• developing new features for cross-browser web app (IE6, IE7, Firefox)

accomplishments

• used javascript, AJAX, jQuery, C# and SQL technologies for the development of cross-browser web app
• applied design patterns to javascript code to make it more modular and decoupled
• researched and designed a highly modular architecture of C# .net web-services layer