About

Rakesh Shetty is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Cisco with over 8 years of experience in building frontend applications using the latest Javascript libraries and frameworks. He has extensive experience working with React Js, including designing, architecture, implementing best practices, and performance enhancement across different projects. Rakesh is an excellent problem-solver, able to quickly grasp complex systems and identify opportunities for improvements and resolution of critical issues. In his current role at Cisco, Rakesh is responsible for building high-performance, highly scalable, complex systems for the entire DCS cloud Platform. He works extensively on React and connects with the UX team to finalize the wireframe. Rakesh implements new features in a highly collaborative environment with product managers and UI/UX experts. He brings technical solutions to the leadership team, feedback on solutions, new product ideas with the team through design review, pair programming, and code review. Rakesh has also worked at Synechron as a Technology Lead, where he collaborated with the design/business teams to develop software meeting product requirements, with lead responsibility for different features in the product. He participated in technical design, architecture, and code reviews, took ownership of critical outcomes, straddled the boundaries of front-end and back-end to deliver software experiences/solutions of the highest quality, and wrote unit test cases for each and every component with 85% coverage. Rakesh managed and worked with teams across India and USA to oversee development and maintenance of Wells Fargo's whole banking. At GEP Worldwide, Rakesh was a Senior Software Engineer. He revamped the whole existing product from AngularJs to ReactJs, ensured timely delivery of the product deliverables using Agile methodology, worked with project managers, developers, and quality assurance to deliver high-quality code, and gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for creating organized project plans. Rakesh also built and integrated REST APIs using NodeJs and Express. Rakesh holds a Bachelor's degree from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, and a High School Diploma in Computer Software Engineering from the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT). His technical skills include Javascript, React Js, Redux, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, ES6, jQuery, Jest, and Enzyme. He is proficient in Frontend, Backend, dotNET, qa, ASP.NET, SQL, MongoDB, Azure, and has 10.28 years of relevant experience.