Debsmita Santra

Red Hat Developer Hub (Red Hat's enterprise-grade IDP based on the Backstage project)

• Lead the plug-in based feature development, craft technical briefs for the UI features, and translate them into JIRA tickets for engineer workload and progress tracking
• Develop UI plug-ins as part of a modular front-end architecture, enabling dynamic integration of features
• Utilize testing frameworks such as React Testing Library and Jest to enhance test coverage, and use Playwright to maintain the application's overall stability
• Proactively review code, collaborate with stakeholders, review the UX designs and documentation work, and deliver user-centric features

Janus-IDP (Red Hat's community project based on Spotify's Backstage)

• Developed and enhanced modular UI plug-ins as part of a dynamic and extensible plug-in-based architecture
• Improved overall code quality by developing a centralized library of reusable utilities, React components, and custom hooks to promote modular development
• Spoke at the CloudNative Summit 2023 edition (Wellington, NZ), sharing insights on implementing Spotify's Backstage for scalable developer portals in enterprise environments

OpenShift Container Platform

• Led the development of integrating Helm into OpenShift, enabling users to effortlessly install, list, update and delete Helm Charts from the UI backed by React JSON schema forms
• Authored multiple enhancements for the OpenShift Console's Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinition backed by Go, empowering administrators to customize the OpenShift console to cater to developers' needs
• Migrated several UI components to make them extensible to support the UI for Kubernetes operators, which dynamically activates upon installation of the operator backed by Webpack module federation
• Implemented E2E integration tests using Cypress, enhanced code coverage, and transitioned to using react-testing-library for unit testing
• Led and implemented 10+ high visible features in the front-end on OpenShift and fixed approximately 130 bugs
• Was actively engaged in intern hiring and mentoring them
• Janus-IDP (Red Hat's community project based on Spotify's Backstage)

OpenShift Container Platform

• Implemented dynamic, wizard-style Formik forms in React for the OpenShift Developer Console, streamlining Kubernetes resource creation for application developers
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand feature requirements and drive features to completion
• OpenShift Container Platform

Che Native Client

• Partnered with two other developers to develop a native client application for Eclipse Che that can fetch remote workspaces present on the Che server and lets developers access their workspaces in a desktop IDE backed by ReactJS, TypeScript, Redux, ElectronJS, Jest and Enzyme
• Che Native Client

Online Charging Control

• Performed functional testing of a mobile broadband charging system by validating Call Detail Records (CDRs) using TTCN-3 scripting
• Wrote Shell scripts to automate the log file verification
• Online Charging Control