About

Rakesh Arulvel is a Frontend (UI/UX) Engineer with over 5 years of experience in software engineering. He is currently working as a UI Enterprise Engineer at Meta, where he is responsible for designing and building products with a rich user-interface that keeps customers in mind. Rakesh is passionate about shipping code at a rapid pace while ensuring scalability and performance. Prior to joining Meta, Rakesh worked at Oracle as a Senior Software UI Engineer and at Freshworks as a Senior Software Engineer - Frontend. At Freshworks, he refactored parts of the codebase to improve "First meaningful paint" by implementing deferred rendering. He also led and mentored a squad of interns, helping them to finish features and ensuring that they were deployed at a rapid pace. Rakesh collaborated with the product and design team by actively involving in features from the I2P phase to help in assessing the feasibility and effort taken to develop. He has also helped in designing mocks for features. Rakesh was part of the team that incrementally upgraded Ember.js from 2.18 to 3.4 and also helped in migrating the test suite from Mocha to Qunit. Rakesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Anna University, where he graduated in 2017. His technical skills include UI, Frontend, Software Engineering, testing, Javascript, and Ember.js. Rakesh has relevant experience of 5.70 years in the field of software engineering. He is a passionate and dedicated individual who is committed to delivering high-quality work.