Soujanya Sreenath
(Entrepreneur & UI Geek)
Bangalore, KA, IN
Background
UI leader, developer and an entrepreneur having 13 years of experience in web, e-commerce with core competency in frontend technology. Presenty working as an hands on Engineering Manager Cisco. Previously, co-founded Styletag.com, a company of 150 members which was funded 10+ million dollars by an angel investor. Single handedly built it's frontend and UI (Mobile and desktop) from scratch.
Technology Skills
Full-stack Development Front-end Development Team management Team lead Tech lead Linux Git ReactJS - begginer Redux Cypress TypeScript NgRx RxJs Angular JavaScript JSON jQuery User Experience Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Responsive Web Design Interaction Design Selenium Protractor - begginer
Experience
Cisco (Engingeering Manager)
May 2018 - Present
- Working as part of identity service team that focuses of Cisco Wevex Authourization and authentication.
- Owning a couple of critical services built on Java - responsible for health and maintainance of the same.
- Working as part of Cisco Webex team. Responsible for building scalable website and adding various features for administering the Webex application.
- Leading and mentoring the team to solve various engineering problems.
- Collaborating and working closely with the designers, architects, product managers and bridging the gap between development and design / content and product.
- Responsible for migration of AngularJs to Angular.
- Own, develop, review and manage code releases of features.
Broadsoft (Technical lead)
July 2017 - May 2018
Broadsoft is into cloud unified communication software and services for the last 20 years.
Client : AT&T
- Leading and teaching the team to solve various problems in angularJS (1.x), HTML, CSS, Git and accessibility.
- Collaborating with the design team and bridging the gap between development and design / content.
- Collaborating with the AT&T Sandbox and e508 teams at various timezones and making sure all the requirements are covered and developed the same way.
- Own, review and manage code releases of the frontend team.
- Leading the team to create an enhanced version of the collaborate website for AT&T using angular (1.4), HTML and CSS.
Styletag (Co-founder and UI Lead)
August 2010 - Present (6 years 11 months)
Styletag.com is an e-commerce website, which deals with women oriented marketplace.
- Co-founded the company
- Own, review and manage code releases of the UI team
- Handling a team of UI developers (both junior and senior level)
- Product innovation and implementation - website, admin panel, integration
- Collaborate with creative team and engineering (both backend and frontend) to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
- Monitor all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off and execute engineering using Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and Javascript libraries and frameworks (AngularJS, JQuery, Bootstrap)
- Frontend integration of APIs provided by RoR microservices
- Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
- Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
- Establish and promote design and code guidelines, best practices and standards
- Handle cross browsers, cross platforms using media queries and used both RWD and Mobile web app
- Implemented the idea of mobile first approach across the company
- Automated UI using selenium and protractor.js
Giza Networks (UI Engineer)
July 2009 - July 2010 (1 year 1 month)
Giza networks is a dashboard to maintain social networking sites
- Built the UI of the dashboard using HTML, CSS and JQuery
Education & certifications
AMC engineering college - (VTU)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Science (2005 - 2009)
Arena Multimedia
Certification course in web designing and development (August 2009 - 6 months)
Coursera
Certification course in Human Interaction Computing (April 2014 - 7 weeks)
Core qualities
Adaptive, Quick learner, Leader, Team player, Team builder, Inspirational, Building scalable systems, Complete knowledge of E-Commerce
Awards
Won the logo making competetion in Barcamp Bangalore 9
Interests
Trekking, Adventure sports and Travelling