About

Jayendra Rakesh is an experienced Full-stack Software Developer with over 8 years of experience in the computer software industry. He is currently working as a Software Engineering SMTS at Salesforce, where he has implemented ReactJS and VueJS micro-frontends, which have improved load times by a couple of seconds and on-screen search times threefold. Additionally, he has created an API management portal for member users, which involved authentication, authorization, SSO capabilities, and access-controls to admin/owner users to manage the dynamic UX for members. Jayendra is proficient in User Experience Design (UED), Front-end Engineering, Back-end API Development, Unit Testing, and Linux. He is also skilled in Test Driven Development (TDD), Functional programming, Unidirectional data flow design, and Flux design patterns. Jayendra holds a Master of Science (MS) focused on Natural Language Processing and a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) focused on Computer Science from the International Institute of Information Technology. He has also worked as a Research Assistant at Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) - IIIT Hyderabad, where he developed a human-aided system for the creation of annotated language resources. He coordinated with a team of 8 language specialists for the manual resource generation phases and created 20,000 annotated Hindi and 7000 annotated Urdu sentences using the system. He also mentored the establishment of similar systems for Malayalam and Telugu languages for English - Hindi languages. Jayendra has worked at Kony Labs as an Associate Technical Lead, where he was responsible for a full-stack webapp that provides a UX, a collection of persistent APIs, and also serves as an API Gateway aggregator. He implemented a webapp for BPMN workflow, which is capable of providing access control, trigger CRUD based events, and maintain the lifecycle of an object modeled resource. He also implemented APIs supporting upload, overwrite, delete, and access-controlled download of binaries. Additionally, he was responsible for leading and mentoring a team of two junior developers, aiding in sprint planning, and coordinating deliverables in the team. Jayendra's TechStack includes Salesforce, test, Frontend, Backend, NLP, Senior Software Engineer, Javascript, Search, Software Engineer, Research Scientist, Python, ReactJS, and Java. He has relevant experience of 8.79 years.