Meghana Chandrashekariah
Technical Lead / Aspiring Engineering Manager
Summary
I am an accomplished Engineering Leader with a diverse background encompassing technical proficiency and strategic management expertise. I've excelled in building and leading teams, adeptly bridging knowledge gaps, and driving efficiency. My roles as an interim engineering manager showcased my ability to deliver business-critical goals while aligning individual growth paths. I excel as a developer, problem solver, and architect while simultaneously fulfilling strategic management roles. My commitment to reducing technical debt, fostering collaboration, and promoting diversity and inclusion has consistently contributed to organizational growth and success.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
4
4
Languages
Work History
Staff Engineer/Tech Lead
Taxfix SE
Berlin
07.2022 - Current
- Orchestrated a team of 7 engineers, cultivating a high-performing environment from the ground up, fostering a culture of collaboration, and mentoring for their growth.
- Stepped in as an interim engineering manager during critical phases, aligning individual contributors' career goals with business objectives.
- Successfully navigated complex business requirements and engineering structures to troubleshoot and resolve critical issues.
- Hosted knowledge-enhancing whiteboard sessions, empowering engineers to bridge knowledge gaps and think innovatively.
- Evaluated and executed pivotal company-wide technical decisions, including technology selection (e.g., React, React Native, React Native Web) for micro frontend projects.
- Collaborated with data analysts and product teams to conduct A/B and A/B/C tests, ensuring feature success.
- Championed dialectical enquiry culture to facilitate optimal technical decision-making.
- Initiated strategies to reduce technical debt, including e2e testing, workshops, and hands-on knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Investigated monitoring and performance metrics, setting KPIs and benchmarking standards for application health.
- Collaborated with DevOps engineers to enhance the sentry alerting system and frontend monitoring.
- Introduced QA processes company-wide, partnering with SDET engineers to define metrics, drive action, and enhance product quality.
- Diagnosed and resolved critical incidents through group programming sessions, prioritizing quality resolution.
- Implemented a micro frontend strategy, focusing on feature parity, codebase optimization, bug tracing, and ownership structures.
- Contributed to architectural designs of frontend packages (Micro frontend) and facilitated seamless refactoring.
- Led a pilot project addressing complex tech debt issues, sharing insights and risk mitigation strategies across engineering teams.
- Participated in continuous discovery habits training to increase revenue and reduce C2A, sharing findings with management.
- Mentored engineers and tech leads in technical and management areas, including RFCs, career development, and incident management.
- Managed regular app releases, optimizing workflows and reducing non-engineering stakeholder involvement.
- Fostered a psychologically safe space for team members, encouraging open communication and continuous improvement.
- Collaborated with design and product teams on a brand refresh project, providing early engineering insights. Worked closely with design team to roll out the new Design system.
- Conducted productive 1-on-1s with team members, emphasizing constructive feedback for personal and team growth.
- Created work-packages for authentication layer using Auth0, proposing CI/CD pipeline optimization techniques.
- Introduced a robust rollback strategy which was very useful for bulk releases prior to peak season.
- Played a key role in core hiring's for engineering managers, tech leads, product managers, senior designers, and staff engineers.
- Served as a key member of the DEI advocate and inclusion board, contributing to initiatives promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Senior Software Engineer
Liqid Investments GmbH
Berlin
07.2019 - 07.2022
- Developed a new product (Liqid Cash) using React.js, unstated (state management library), Apollo GraphQL while ensuring 85% test coverage with a critical timeline. Contributed to several areas of the project, namely design reviews, setting KPIs, Roadmap planning and, Sprint planning, development & execution, testing & deployment, customer interviews & feedback implementation.
- Simultaneously worked on the health matrix of a legacy web app, by increasing the FCP time by 38% and consecutive loads by 23%. I was the only individual contributor responsible for enhancement, maintenance of this legacy application. Actively resolved customer specific bugs by collaborating with Backend engineers(tech stack : Ruby on rails).
- Exclusively worked on Salesforce to develop a self serviced dashboard while using React.js to build lightning web components. I lead the team & made several architectural decisions & created POCs on the go to pave way for this project.
- Coached & mentored junior/mid/Senior developers and engineers on problem solving, debugging and best engineering practices while fostering inclusiveness.
- Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff. Hosted workshops & initiatives to improve developer experience & life at Liqid. Kicked off hackathons & fix-it friday as tech initiatives enabling engineers to think beyond their scope.
- Closely collaborated with product, designers and non-technical stake holders to understand the business goals, customer view point and set up a 'customer first' motto within the engineering org.
- Actively gave & received candor feedback. Fostered the culture of 360 feedback to increase the trust & efficiency of the team members.
- Contributed to hiring process of engineers, mangers and product leads by assessing the candidates on different parameters & also participated in budget negotiations.
Senior Software Engineer
Happiest Minds Technologies
Bengaluru
07.2017 - 06.2019
- Performed several tests including performance testing, accessibility testing, load testing on an existing web application developed using Angular.js framework for a supply chain management client(IONX-Amsted Digital) based in United States.
- Analyzed existing codebase and suggested performance improvements, carried out several modifications to cater to responsive web design.
- Developed extended UI features with critical timeline without compromising on the code quality.
- Carried out Code reviews and technical discussions to have the best code in place. Hosted code walkthrough and knowledge sharing sessions to reduce dependability and allowing every IC to have a wholistic view of the application.
- Developed invaluable features using React & redux (typescript) for an enterprise OKR tool used by Microsoft for a United states based client (Workboard) alongside a team of 17 Engineers including QA.
- Performed intense bug tracing, incident management and resolution during pre-production, rollouts and production.
- Developed a chrome extension for iOS & Android and also gmail plugin using Apps Script & an outlook plugin using javascript APIs.
- Increased the test coverage to 85% and set benchmarking standards for CSS and React. Migrated the testing library from Enzyme to React testing library. Initially developed a small POC to showcase the benefits of using React testing library over Enzyme.
- Translated the wireframes from Zeplin to responsive React (or UI) components.
- Collaborated with several other engineers in the form of pair programming, rubber duck debugging, Code reviews and in production rollout & testing processes.
- Actively participated in scrum rituals & have several times worn a scrum master hat. Carried out successful demo to the client and proposed improvised features compared to that given as a requirement.
Software Engineer
Happiest Minds Technologies
Bengaluru
10.2016 - 07.2017
- Developed interactive charts using d3.js library for analytical dashboards which dealt with health data of several customers.
- Developed an in house app utilizing the socket programming concept and some JS libraries to provide a seamless onboarding experience to the new hires.
- Migrated a live Math application(Bettermarks GmbH) which was running on Flash to React.js (Also using Redux, Dynamo DB and AWS Lambda) over a period of 8 months. The testing involved Eleven thousand exercises across 12 locales at the beta phase.
- Mentored couple of engineers with pure javascript programming and algorithmic approach to problem solving who were later were on-boarded to work on the Math app.
- Participated in architecture, design and implementation of end to end features. Developed & tested reusable react components.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Belgavi,Karnataka, India 07.2012 - 08.2016
Course - Leadership Principles
Harvard Business School Online
01.2021 - 04.2023
Course - Management Essentials
Harvard Business School Online
03.2022 - 07.2022
Skills
HTML5, CSS3
Reactjs & React native
Javascript
Typescript
Apollo GraphQL
Nodejs
Salesforce (Lightning Web Components)
Redux, Unstated, Context API
Performance, Monitoring & Alerting
Unit testing & e2e testing
Jest, React testing library, Mocha, Chai, Enzyme
D3js, Highcharts, Fission charts
Git, NPM, Shell script
Appstore & Playstore
Team Building & Mentorship
Problem Solving & Analytical thinking
Architecture & Solutions Engineering
Strategic Management
QA & Testing Implementation
Data-Driven Decision Making
Performance and CI/CD Optimization
Micro Frontend Strategies
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Coaching & Mentoring
Feedback & Psychological Safety
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Advocacy
Certification
Continuous Product Discovery Habits Masterclass by Teresa Torres
Timeline
Staff Engineer/Tech Lead
Taxfix SE
07.2022 - Current
Course - Management Essentials
Harvard Business School Online
03.2022 - 07.2022
Course - Leadership Principles
Harvard Business School Online
01.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Liqid Investments GmbH
07.2019 - 07.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Happiest Minds Technologies
07.2017 - 06.2019
Software Engineer
Happiest Minds Technologies
10.2016 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
07.2012 - 08.2016