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Bhavana Lakkalapudi

Technical Lead
Canton,MA

Summary

Highly skilled software development professional with over 8 years of experience in web application development. Deep knowledge of digital asset management, distributed marketing, and digital marketing solutions. Demonstrated success on a broad range of software design and development projects, both as a team member and solo project developer from conception through launch. Able to readily translate business requirements into effective solutions and collaborate cross-functionally to build consensus and ensure projects meet all milestones, deadlines, and budget requirements. Adapts intuitively to new technology and innovative processes while maintaining compliance with company and industry standards.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Technical Lead

Pica9, Inc.
11.2022 - Current
  • Designed and developed forward-thinking systems that meet user needs and improve productivity.
  • Led a team of developers to successfully deliver high-quality software projects on time and within budget constraints.
  • Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
  • Maintained close communication with clients throughout project life cycles for accurate progress reporting and prompt issue resolution.
  • Enhanced system performance with thorough code reviews, debugging, and optimization techniques.
  • Improved the SAAS application with the addition of new features and infrastructure.
  • Evaluated and recommended new tools and technologies that resulted in increased development efficiency and up-to-date technical skillsets within the team.
  • Optimized resource allocation across multiple concurrent projects by closely tracking team capacity levels against project deadlines and milestones.
  • Teamed on development of technology roadmap spanning 2 years.
  • Championed adoption of DevOps practices, streamlining development and operations to enhance product reliability.
  • Led successful launch of multiple software releases, meeting all project objectives and exceeding user expectations.
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features, resulting in more robust product offering.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.

Developer

Pica9, Inc.
2 2016 - 11.2022
  • Design, develop and implement feature enhancements of the local marketing automation software at Pica9 while maintaining functionality between integration points, and drive ongoing enhancement of existing system architecture
  • Built APIs that engage with applications, application integrations, and microservices
  • Developed SAML based user authentication for user management across the custom proprietary software applications at Pica9
  • Implemented automation of importing daily location and user data feeds of types XML and JSON by developing scripts for the import process
  • Maintain and update existing code and resolve any technical issues with the current software
  • Plan and execute new product concepts utilizing the experience with working on Pica9's digital asset management, distributed-marketing, and digital-marketing solutions for the past 4 years

Teaching Assistant

New York University
05.2015 - 12.2015
  • Provided essential support to Professor Keith O'Brien, facilitating grading and lab preparation for his Network Security course

Instructor

New York University
05.2015 - 08.2015
  • Collaborated with a team of teachers to develop robotics-based curriculum
  • Taught a 7th Grade course using Lego EV3 Mindstorms, including design, programming, and connection with real world applications

Intern

Bosch Ltd.
7 2012
  • Company Overview: Training and Engineering Functions Dept - India
  • Learned PLC programming and computer numerical control (CNC) used in Grob machine
  • Used Sentron power management software to monitor Horizontal, and Vertical machines
  • Training and Engineering Functions Dept - India

Education

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

New York University
01.2014 - 12.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

PES Institute of Technology
08.2009 - 05.2013

Skills

PHP

Javascript

HTML

LAMP Stack

jQuery

CSS

MVC Architecture

SQL

Bootstrap

Zend Framework

SLIM Framework

UNIX/LINUX

API Integrations

SAML

Microservices

JSON

XML

Github

SCRUM

PHPUnit

React

Timeline

Technical Lead

Pica9, Inc.
11.2022 - Current

Teaching Assistant

New York University
05.2015 - 12.2015

Instructor

New York University
05.2015 - 08.2015

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

New York University
01.2014 - 12.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

PES Institute of Technology
08.2009 - 05.2013

Developer

Pica9, Inc.
2 2016 - 11.2022

Intern

Bosch Ltd.
7 2012
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