Gunavel
Chennai
Summary
13 Years in total and 3.5 Years as an Hands-on Engineering Manager
Building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation
Led initiatives from inception, guiding squads through multiple funding rounds
Promoted talent through effective mentoring
Hands On - Full Stack Developer & Solution Architect
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
FoodHub
06.2024 - Current
- Headed API development at FoodHub, focused on optimizing API latency to fall within 200ms
- Achieved drop in 60% service agent calls by introducing item prep time, enabling restaurants to plan deliveries efficiently
- Accelerated payment processing by implementing tap-to-pay functionality on mobile apps for streamlining payment capture
- Coded Gift Cards ground up and delivered in less than 3 months along with different service models to cater client requirements
- Mentored and developed a high-performing team of 12 engineers, including engineering manager, fostering technical excellence and leadership skills
- Optimized dev ops API release pipeline to increase stability in releases which resulted in better developer experience
Engineering Manager
Unibuddy
01.2021 - 06.2024
- Mentored engineers to improve their skills in communication and cross functional collaboration with regular feedback which led to 4 of them being promoted to senior positions
- Built a tailored interview process for frontend and mobile engineering which led to hiring almost two-thirds of tech team in India
- Established a process where in one engineer leads a sprint taking accountability for end-end development which led to increased developer satisfaction and fostered collaboration
- Carried out automation tasks on github, vscode, internationalization system, evaluated SaaS tools and ran POCs which led to quicker product iteration
- Analyzed and onboarded 3 SaaS (Crowdin, Luzmo, Launch Darkly) tools which led to quicker time to market, better feature adoption, increased developer experience, confidence in the systems and increased revenue
- Establishing a process that integrates engineers, product managers, and designers throughout development, bridging the gap between product and engineering functions
- Ensured setting up single sprint goals and driving it completion which helped engineers focus on engineering initiatives and measurable sprint delivery
Senior Software Engineer
Unibuddy
05.2020 - 01.2021
- Led development of e2e front end automation testing suite using cypress which led to increased confidence among developers to ship new features making sure critical user journey is intact
- Designed and developed integrated internationalization (i18n) system for front end applications which made it possible for product managers to ship new languages is very less time with very less dependency on engineering
- Handled screening, coding and system design interview rounds for full stack roles
- Implemented code push for mobile app which led to increased feature adoption from days to minutes
Technology Lead
Infosys
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Co-authored an in-house UI framework driven by schema for rendering React components
- Developed project specific custom re-usable React components with coding standards to speed up development process
- Re-wrote the app's build script using Webpack 4 and Babel 7 to optimize the build time performance which reduced the app's client bundle build time from ~60 s to ~15 s and node server's build time from ~50 s to ~12 s
- Updated build process ran 3X faster in gitlab's CI/CD pipelines which contributed to significant cost savings
Technology Analyst
Infosys
01.2014 - 01.2017
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys
01.2012 - 01.2014
Systems Engineer
Infosys
01.2011 - 01.2012
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Anna University
03-2011
Skills
- Mentoring
- Hiring
- Agile Practices
- Solution Architecture
- Full Stack Development (API, WEB and Mobile App)
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Node JS
- React JS
- React Native
- Dynamo DB
- AWS
Certification
AWS CD-A
Languages
English
Tamil
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
FoodHub
06.2024 - Current
Engineering Manager
Unibuddy
01.2021 - 06.2024
Senior Software Engineer
Unibuddy
05.2020 - 01.2021
Technology Lead
Infosys
01.2017 - 01.2020
Technology Analyst
Infosys
01.2014 - 01.2017
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys
01.2012 - 01.2014
Systems Engineer
Infosys
01.2011 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Engineering -
Anna University
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