Rubita Kumari
Software Engineer
An Engineering Manager and seasoned developer with a decade of experience in the software industry. Specializes in guiding teams towards successful web and hybrid mobile app projects, leveraging technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and React Native. Skilled in fostering a collaborative environment across organizational boundaries, promoting cross-functional team interactions and synergies. Passionate about leading from the front in development, testing and project management.
Tech Skills
JavaScript (nodejs, es6), TypeScript, HTML, CSS React, ReactNative, feathersjs, expressjs Jest wordpress C/C++
Work Experience (Feb 2011 – Present)
HousingAnywhere (Nov 21 – Present)
Engineering Manager (Oct 22 - Present)
Team Lead (Nov 21 - Oct 22)
HousingAnywhere is Europe's largest rental accommodation marketplace, with 10 million unique visitors per year.
As the Engineering Manager of the Internal Ops Team at HousingAnywhere, I bridge the gap between engineering and non-engineering teams, leading initiatives to enhance inter-departmental collaboration.
- Collaboratively identify internal team needs, addressing operational, marketing, and sales inefficiencies through technological solutions.
- Align marketing, sales, and operations objectives with the engineering roadmap for cohesive business goals.
- Leverage technology and data insights to streamline processes, eliminate bottlenecks, and develop efficient workflows.
- Implement automation tools to increase speed, reduce errors, and comply with industry standards.
- Lead a diverse team of engineers (both backend and frontend), a designer, and a product owner, nurturing an innovative environment and guiding project success.
- Manage personnel, budgeting, annual roadmaps, OKRs, hiring and onboarding, and process optimization, while conducting performance reviews for continuous team development.
ServiceMax (Jun 20 – Nov 21)
Staff Software Engineer
ServiceMax is a Field service SaaS built on top of Salesforce.
- Responsible for resolving high priority customer bugs, including communication with customer, testing, reproducing, triage between internal team, complete development and QA process
- Worked on enhancements and new features of Windows, iOS and Android Apps
- ReactNative, ReactNavigation, Redux, Jest, TypeScript
Sweeten Inc (Fearless Renovation Pvt Ltd) (Jul 19 – May 20)
Lead Engineer
New York based Series-A funded marketplace for home/office renovations.
- Started Sweeten’s customer facing app project from scratch. Lead a team of six engineers in this endeavour.
- Developed a react component library from scratch for use by Sweeten web app.
- Responsible for frontend engineering, Design review and QA process
- ReactNative, React, TypeScript, JavaScript
Sangoma Technologies (Sep 15 – Jun 19)
Senior Software Engineer
Canada based Sangoma builds hardware and software solutions for VOIP.
- Designed and Developed Vega SIP Gateway’s User Interface.
- Worked on SIP protocol and kernel modules for Vega SIP Gateway
- JavaScript, jquery, nodejs, HTML, CSS, C
NEC India (Aug 13 – Aug 15)
Senior Software Engineer
TATA Consultancy Services (Feb 11 - Aug 13)
Software Engineer
Other Projects
Refrens (www.refrens.com)
Refrens is an invoicing platform for freelancers and SMEs.
- Worked on Refrens' first version from project initiation till first 5000 customers.
- Worked on Product and Design Ideation, Development and testing
- javascript, nodejs, feathersjs, jest, mongoose, react, nextjs, antd
Extrachai (www.extrachai.com)
Extrachai is a health and wellness related blog built using wordpress.
- Built SEO optimised wordpress theme with amp support while learning on the go.
- wordpress, jquery, sass, html, css, google analytics, google tag manager, AMP