About

Velina Veleva is an experienced Technical Lead Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer services industry. With over 10 years of relevant experience, she has a strong engineering background in mathematics and is skilled in Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React, and GraphQL. Currently, Velina is working at Homebase as a Technical Lead Software Engineer, where she leads 3rd party partnerships and integrations, manages public and internal APIs, provides technical leadership for engineering members and product, and manages and prioritizes team backlog to ensure that there's always work to be done. She also introduces and implements code quality guidelines to ensure the development of high-quality software. Prior to Homebase, Velina worked at Voy Rewards Ltd as a Senior Software Engineer, where she developed the backend Ruby on Rails API for partner and customer portals, refactored commands for making asynchronous transactions to a blockchain using redis/sidekiq, and introduced organizational coding tools such as Ruby/Rails/CSS/JS linters and CircleCI configurations. She also engineered the platform for the rewards program builder in React/Redux per designer specs as well as built the backend RoR API for it and mentored fellow Rails engineers. Velina also worked at Enjoy Technology Inc. as a Software Engineer, where she refactored and redesigned the delivery scheduling system to make API response times over 90% faster and architected internal GraphQL API to accelerate development of new client-side applications. She also established guidelines and best practices to keep tests performant and reliable and refactored and eliminated legacy systems to reduce technical debt and maintenance overhead. Velina holds a BS in Mathematics from Emory University. She is a skilled Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Ruby, Blockchain, Parts-of-speech, Backend, Javascript, Mobile, CI/CD, designer, product manager, Redis, Redux, Integration, and Frontend developer.