About

Lakshmi Sharma is a Software Engineer 2 at Twilio Inc. with nearly 6 years of experience in the tech industry. She has worked on several web frameworks including React, Angular, and Ruby on Rails. She has also developed mobile apps for both Android and iOS (Swift). Her expertise lies in React, having led frontend development on her last project. Aside from web development, Lakshmi has a keen interest in Virtual Reality and has a Master's degree in Computer Graphics and Animation. Currently, Lakshmi is working on a system for handling liquidation items at Sams Club at Twilio Inc. She works closely with the product manager to understand and refine requirements and break them down into engineering tasks. She designed APIs and was actively involved in system design of the project. Lakshmi also led React frontend development, integrated best practices, decided design patterns to use, modularized components, and later used these in two other projects. Prior to Twilio Inc., Lakshmi worked at Walmart as a Software Engineer 3 where she worked on a similar system for handling liquidation items at Sams Club. She led React frontend development, integrated best practices, decided design patterns to use, modularized components, and later used these in two other projects. As an intern at Match.com, Lakshmi worked on building a new dating app concept that allows friends to collaborate while looking for dates. This application used a micro-service architecture, which they built primarily in Ruby. She worked on the RoR backend, Cassandra DB, and iOS frontend (Swift) for managing multiple features including profiles, invites, one-on-one and group messaging, and many more. Lakshmi holds a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Information Technology from Pune Institute of Computer Technology. Her technical skills include Software Engineering, Frontend, Web, Ruby, iOS, Mobile, Swift, Cassandra, Microservices, Backend, and Android.