About

Chitra T. is a highly skilled and versatile Senior Staff Software Engineer with over 19 years of experience in UI, UX, and front-end development. She has a demonstrated track record of success in both creative and technical aspects of web development, and is an avid learner with a strong work ethic. Chitra has the ability to take a web development project from UI-UX to production-ready code. She has designed and coded responsive web sites for different screen widths and mobile devices using a variety of technologies such as HTML5, JQuery, Javascript, AngularJS(1.x), VueJS, CSS3/CSS pre-processors (Sass, Less), and more. She also has expertise in web usability, Search Engine Optimization, Google Analytics, accessibility (WCAG guidelines), web-performance optimization, and web standards. Chitra has assimilated experience from varied work environments, including design agencies, corporations, higher education, and small businesses. She has worked both independently and collaboratively, and is proficient in all components of Adobe Creative Suite, IDEs, wireframing tools, and has coded for many Content Management Systems. She is also familiar with Adobe AEM CMS (Adobe Experience Manager). Chitra is conversant with development workflows, processes, and tools such as Git, subversion, npm, task runners like grunt gulp, and Webpack, Yarn. She has experience working in Agile process and Scrum methodology. She is also conversant with principles of graphic design, typography, and branding. Currently, Chitra is working as a Sr. Staff Software Engineer (UI, UX) at Palo Alto Networks, where she is working on rebranding UI development and UI bug fixes for the latest 2020 Panorama and Firewall Software (On-prem). She is also working on UI development for the latest version of Prisma Access Cloud Software (Phase 1, released), and is currently working on development of Phase II features of Prisma Access (focusing on UI, UX), using Sass, ReactJS (JSX). In her past experience, Chitra has worked as a UI Developer at McAfee Inc., where she created the McAfee Cloud UI Library (HTML, CSS/Sass and AngularJS 1.7 with TypeScript, using Webpack and Yarn for build). She has also worked as a Senior UI Engineer at Adobe, where she worked on front-end coding for Customer Search Results using Kendo UI, jQuery, Javascript, and JSON data as web-resource,