Naga Chaitanya Konada

Lead Engineer II

PepsiCo•  September 2019 - September 2020

- Working as a technical lead for the frontend team with 80% individual contribution to projects. Handling technical analysis and architecture of a web-solutions platform offering multiple front-end starter kits and integrations. - Single-handedly created working prototypes for various complex front-end solutions, namely a highly performant image heavy product branding site (House of Pepsico), a multiple form PWA webapp (Paperless Forms) with form editing, reusing and scaling options and offline capabilities. Increased the performance of House of PepsiCo app to 95%. Paperless Forms app saves huge investments in physical forms. - Worked on a campaign dashboard (SmartAds) with dynamic page creation at run-time using React and Gatsby along with Node.js based micro-services. This tool has been proving to be a successful one in quickly publishing B2C campaigns thus impacting daily revenues. - Working on the intranet HR portal (MyPepsico) with heavy user-base authentication and CMS integrations along with PWA optimizations and component reusability. Using modern frameworks like React and Gatsby, the app is more than 3 times better in overall performance. - Developed and delivered all front-end tool-chain integrations including LightHouse, ESLint, frontend security, accessibility and PWA. Optimized tooling for DevOps integration with githooks and testing tools. - Demonstrated high ethical and technical standards as a front-end developer raising the bar for technical innovativeness by participating in knowledge sharing, hackathons and brainstorming activities along with following best principles of Agile in the projects.

Specialist Senior

Deloitte•  March 2018 - September 2019

- Worked as a tech lead for the frontend projects with 80% individual contribution. Handled architecture of front-end code-bases and libraries built for various projects involving POCs and prototypes. Developed integrations and headless solutions in multiple frameworks like Angular, React, Vue and StencilJS. - Handled the entire product development for a gaming e-commerce site (Sony PlayStation). Developed modules like checkout, order management, profile management and catalogue views along with product listing and details views. Seamlessly integrated payments and authentication API without issues. - Extensively worked on multiple theme based prototype solutions for multiple clients using Storybook and React components as a library along with porting the components independent of frameworks using web-components. - Implemented and optimized various front-end toolchains for better code and easy maintenance. Implemented test driven development along with code optmization and type checking using TypeScript. This increased the adoption of such solutions and a rise in project intake by various clients. - Performed various trainings to front-end teams and modern front-end technical stacks and conducted hackathons to promote adaptability of these solutions. Also involved in front-end resource hiring as a panelist for technical rounds.

Senior Software Analyst

Franklin Templeton Investments•  July 2012 - March 2018

- Worked as a senior front-end developer delivering highly successful product sites as well as corporate sites that turned up more than 30% better profits after they were deployed. Developed cross-region sites that support internationalization and accessibility. - Worked on single-page campaign sites using Angular JS and jQuery, improving the product adaptability by 40% in the first quarter after release. Received many accolades for building these campaigns in record time and single-handedly. - Actively participated in application improvement plans involving infrastructure and technical stack evaluation and modernization. Did multiple POCs in Node.js and React.js as part of this evaluation. - Developed user interfaces for various customized tools for internal product management and process automation. Involved in DevOps and authentication system integrations as part of the efforts. These tools are still being used in the company. - Introduced and perfected test driven development and automation testing tools for front-end technical stack and projects within the whole company and helped teams integrate them with all the projects.

Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies•  April 2010 - July 2012

- Software development - Component coding, development, and maintenance - System development and maintenance - Code modules and product upgrades - Unit and integration testing - Customer coordination and product support - Project participation including release planning - Reporting and documentation of product and code - Product design and prototyping - Client relations and reporting.