About

Harshitha Rao is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying highly scalable web and mobile applications, systems integrations, product MVP, and APIs. She is an expert in following Extreme programming principles, Continuous integration, Agile methodologies, Continuous improvements, Pair programming, Simple design, Refactoring, Collective ownership, and Coding standards. She strictly follows Test-driven development to develop a maintainable, flexible, easily extensible SOLID code. Harshitha has worked on critical projects such as a property rental/sales consumer website serving ~90M projects/properties for ~11M property buyers across Asia, where she improved performance by code optimizations and scaled the Kubernetes cluster, thereby increasing the company's revenue by 30%. She also revamped an existing only desktop financial investment website to support both desktop and mobile web, thereby increasing user traction by 2 times, and the website currently serves ~2M users. Harshitha has also designed, developed, tested, and deployed a react native app from scratch on a financial investment app to support iOS, Android apps, desktop, mobile web, which is now having 500k+ downloads. Harshitha has also led a team designing, developing, testing both backend and frontend code, mentoring juniors, analyzing CI/CD tools, setting up an automation framework, and automating the release process using Jenkins. She has worked with companies like LinkedIn and Mavenhive Technologies, where she led the distributed team (remote) to design and develop scalable, performant and maintainable APIs using micro service architecture with a new data model serving ~90M properties/projects to ~11M users, 30k property agents, which doubled the website's performance. Harshitha has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from the National Institute of Engineering. She is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Software Engineer, test, Mobile, Web, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Backend, Jenkins, iOS, Integration, Frontend, React Native, Android, Redux, Redis, Microservices, and UI. Harshitha is a dedicated individual who is always looking to improve her skills and stay up-to-date with the latest technologies.