KRISHNA GOPINATH

Experience

  • Principal Software Engineer, Patch Media  —  Jun 2020 - Present  —  New York, NY
    • Build features and improvements for the patch CMS and website that have a meaningful impact on how our editors & users use our product
    • Act as a technical lead, mentor peers and ensure institutional knowledge is disseminated correctly
    • Define a future for migrating legacy systems to a more scalable and efficient system that will help Patch scale in the future
  • Senior Software Engineer, Pointman  —  Mar 2017 - May 2020  —  Buffalo, NY
    • Designed and built Pointman's Payment integration from scratch, which involved scoping out requirements, writing a cordova plugin to interact with Mobile Payment SDKs, writing API wrapper libraries in Node.js, .NET platforms & integrating with multiple web and cordova apps.
    • Improved the team's ability to rapidly deliver new product features by replacing Pointman's legacy UI build process with a fast, standardized CLI process using Node.js and webpack. This also involved writing custom codemod scripts for Pointman's codebase, with jscodeshift.
    • Spearheaded the migration from AngularJS to Vue.js by creating a "Vue base" inside the app and leading a 2-member team to migrate an existing feature. This allowed the team to iterate quickly and write bug free code.
    • Automated deployment processes by setting up CI/CD pipelines for Pointman's Web, Mobile and API projects using Azure DevOps, which empowered the team to build and ship features faster than ever.
    • Fostered a mindset of learning and collaboration by mentoring new engineers, performing in-depth code reviews and leading pair programming sessions.
    • Modernized Pointman's legacy application by systematically rewriting critical parts of it to be more resilient, faster & easier to maintain, resulting in a more stable user experience with reduced bugs.
  • Software Engineer Intern, Argyle Technology Group  —  May 2016 - Aug 2016  —  Buffalo, NY
    • Ideated and built the first version of MemoryFox, a platform for aggregating crowd-sourced social media content at events.
  • Software Developer, Cognizant Technology Solutions  —  Jun 2011 - Jul 2015  —  India
    • Architected & built a mobile app platform with infrastructure for hosting internal "micro" mobile web apps. Built with cordova, AngularJS, ASP.NET Web API & SQL Server, this platform was used by over 10,000 employees daily.

Projects

Education

  • MS, Computer Science, University At Buffalo, SUNY  —  2015 - 2017
    Relevant Courses: Distributed Systems, Programming Languages
  • BE, Electrical Engineering, Anna University  —  2007 - 2011

Skills

  • Languages & Platforms: JavaScript, Node.js, CSS/SASS, CosmosDB, SQL Server, C#, .NET Framework
  • Frameworks & libraries: React.js, Vue.js, AngularJS, GatsbyJS, Cordova, Redux, VueX, Express.js, Mocha, chai.js, jest, styled-components, emotion, Entity Framework 6, ASP.NET Web API 2
  • Tools: webpack, Parcel.js, jscodeshift
  • CI/CD: Azure DevOps, AppVeyor, CircleCI, GitHub Actions
Last Updated on Jun 26, 2022