Meghana Rao
Summary
Front-End Development Lead with 6+ years of experience in web application development. Proficient in React.js and Vue.js, delivering scalable, SEO-optimized solutions. Demonstrated ability to enhance user engagement and drive growth through effective collaboration and alignment with business goals. Strong work ethic and adaptability, with a proven capacity to master new skills independently.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Gameskraft
Bangalore
12.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: Gameskraft is a technology company focused on creating engaging games and applications.
- Spearheaded the development of a tournament CRM platform, introducing rule engines and approval workflows that reduced manual effort by 60% and accelerated launch timelines by 50%.
- Boosted SEO and Core Web Vitals, achieving top-5 Google rankings for flagship websites, and driving a 30% increase in organic traffic and user retention.
- Delivered 99.9% uptime by deploying scalable, high-availability web applications on AWS S3 and CloudFront, ensuring reliability during peak traffic.
- Enabled self-service campaign management by integrating WordPress CMS with CRM, cutting engineering dependency by 70%, and accelerating go-to-market.
- Architected and secured AWS infrastructure – EC2, Lambda, WAF, Route 53, improving page load speeds by 40%, and mitigating DDoS threats by 80%.
- Cut deployment cycles by 90% through Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, enabling weekly, stable releases instead of monthly.
- Reduced AWS costs by 55% (production) and 60% (staging) via EC2 rightsizing, CloudFront caching, and automated S3 lifecycle management.
- Standardized development workflows by creating reusable project templates, reducing onboarding time, and improving developer productivity by 40%.
- Implemented real-time monitoring and alerting with Grafana, InfluxDB, Opsgenie, and Slack, reducing incident detection and resolution time by 50%.
- Mentored and coached junior engineers, improving sprint delivery quality by 30%, and ensuring consistent adoption of best practices.
- Migrated analytics from Universal Analytics to GA4, establishing accurate event tracking and attribution models that improved marketing ROI insights by 25%.
- Gameskraft is a technology company focused on creating engaging games and applications.
- Led code reviews to ensure high-quality standards and best practices.
- Integrated third-party APIs to expand game features and services offered.
- Mentored junior staff members in coding best practices and problem solving techniques.
Software Engineer
Toshiba Software India Pvt. Ltd
09.2018 - 11.2021
- Company Overview: Toshiba Software India Pvt. Ltd. It is a subsidiary focusing on software solutions for various sectors.
- Built a customizable dashboard UI with drag-and-drop functionality, boosting user engagement and task efficiency by 40%.
- Developed scalable microservices in Node.js and Python, enabling a modular architecture and reducing system downtime by 30%.
- Designed and documented REST APIs with Swagger (Node.js) and Flask Connexion (Python), ensuring maintainability, and high performance across services.
- Engineered reusable ReactJS components and libraries, cutting development time by 25%, and standardizing UI/UX consistency across applications.
- Established a Continuous Integration (CI) environment, enabling daily automated builds, and reducing integration issues by 50%.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines using Ansible and Jenkins, eliminating manual intervention, and tripling deployment frequency while improving release reliability.
- Integrated advanced reporting frameworks (Allure, Extent Reports), enhancing test visibility, and accelerating QA sign-offs with a 35% improvement in coverage insights.
- Toshiba Software India Pvt. Ltd. It is a subsidiary focusing on software solutions for various sectors.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements.
- Developed, tested, debugged and documented software programs using Java, JavaScript and HTML and CSS.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Acharya Institute of Technology
07.2018
Skills
- Ansible
- AWS services
- Caching strategies
- Cloud monitoring
- CRM systems
- Containerization with Docker
- EC2 management
- ES6 programming
- Flask framework
- Google Analytics and Search Console
- Grafana dashboards
- HTML and JavaScript
- Jenkins automation
- Modular design principles
- Nextjs development
- PostgreSQL database management
- Python programming
- React and Redux
- RESTful APIs
- Route 53 configuration
- S3 storage solutions
- SEO techniques and tools
- Slack communication
- Swagger documentation
- Vuejs framework
- WordPress development
- CI/CD automation
- Frontend development
- Agile methodologies
- User experience design
- Search engine optimization
- Performance optimization
Accomplishments
- Spearheaded the development of a tournament CRM platform that significantly improved launch timelines and reduced manual effort.
- Achieved significant boosts in organic traffic and user retention through SEO and Core Web Vitals optimizations.
- Delivered high-availability applications with 99.9% uptime using AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability during peak traffic.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Gameskraft
12.2021 - Current
Software Engineer
Toshiba Software India Pvt. Ltd
09.2018 - 11.2021
Bachelor of Engineering -
Acharya Institute of Technology