About

Ravi Mehra is a highly experienced Software Engineer currently working at Facebook. With over 13 years of relevant experience, Ravi has a strong background in software development, integration, and testing. He has worked on both frontend and backend development, and is well-versed in a range of technologies including Elastic Search, Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, Jenkins, and AngularJS. Prior to his current role, Ravi worked as an Engineering Manager at Hewlett Packard, where he oversaw the growth of a team by 4x and maintained quality by enforcing high test coverage, conducting live training sessions, writing documentation, and maintaining existing code review processes. He also reviewed over 300 merge requests in 2019, mentored developers into senior roles, and transitioned projects from a Waterfall approach to Agile/Scrum, enabling monthly releases and speeding up the response to customer requested features and fixes. Ravi also provided architectural guidance on system integration efforts and worked with Product Owners/Managers to understand priorities, refine requirements, estimate effort, and discuss project roadmaps. Prior to his role as Engineering Manager, Ravi worked as a Full-Stack Software Architect at Hewlett Packard, where he developed the Aruba Support Portal, a web application providing common customer support operations. He led the team in selecting the technologies and laying the foundation, built the backend with NodeJS + Express, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch, and built the frontend with Angular, Material, and NgRx. Ravi also wrote unit and integration tests for all backend and frontend features that he developed, achieving >95% test coverage. Ravi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.