Gopikrishna Gnanasekaran
Smyrna,GA
Summary
Lead Front end developer with 16+ years of professional experience in development of enterprise and web-based applications.Willing to take on challenging assignments, and ready to learn and adapt to new technologies..
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Developer
The Home Depot Inc
Smyrna, Georgia
02.2026 - Current
- Working on Java upgrade, and migration of Orange tree to Data Proc / Data flow jobs
- Updating the test coverage more than 80% for the repo.
Lead Developer
The Home Depot Inc
Smyrna, GA
05.2025 - 01.2026
- Constructed chatbot using Google ADK framework to support Home Depot's acquisition of SRS Distribution, a prominent roofing enterprise
- Managed development team of three for requirement integration
- SRS team using multiple endpoints to validate all field values, complicating the process, so we use Google ADK to consolidate results into a single endpoint.
Lead Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
Smyrna, GA
04.2022 - 04.2025
- Led a development team of three to integrate and support a recommendation React component in experiences.
- Developed new recommendation features, like pip collection and Tabination, battery collection on the product information page.
- Migrated the add-to-cart drawer recommendation from the cart repository and added a second recommendation.
- Worked on customizing the recommendation container as per UX design.
- Provided technical solutions to the Test and Target team to make the functionality reusable.
- Worked closely with the analytics partner to validate the data captured by Adobe.
- Worked closely with project stakeholders to ensure that applications met their stated needs and expectations.
- Provided technical support for internal teams during the development process of new features.
- Conducted offshore meetings to review peer developer code.
- Implementing the best practices and coding standards of the project.
- Encouraged offshore team members to communicate more openly and constructively with one another.
Lead Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
Chennai, India
05.2020 - 03.2022
- Led development team of 2 to migrate legacy recommendation application to React component.
- Initially, we used Ajax for data fetching and rendering the user interface.
- Created data model for recommendation containers using graphQL and we query the required fields from the rest api endpoint.
- Focused on performance improvement using Light House metrics.
- Published lighthouse metrics documentation in confluence and gave KT to all recommendation engineers.
- Take up the technical responsibility of the recommendation project.
- Performed debugging and troubleshooting of existing web applications for improved performance.
- Monitored performance metrics in the newRelic tool after each deployment to ensure the webvitals metrics score are in range.
Lead Front End Developer
Macy’s Systems and Technology, Inc
Duluth, GA
04.2019 - 04.2020
- The objective of this project is to migrate applications such as Header Footer XAPI, Discovery XAPI, and Digital Product XAPI from on-premises to Google Cloud Platform.
- Implemented the kill switch to support the application from on-premises or Google Cloud Platform.
- Converted the spring project to spring boot. Added consul to maintain the kill switch application properties and dynamically update the properties in real-time in consul.
- Separated the common properties files as modules. Added stack driver log feature to track the logs in GCP stack driver.
Senior Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
Smyrna, GA
10.2016 - 03.2019
- Developed a new user interface for the special buy of the day page.
- Worked on integrating third-party Flipp iFrame banners in the Home Depot website.
- Led a development team of 4 members to retire Documentum 3rd party tool to Home Depot in-house tool Etch.
- Created documentation for new features to support end-users.
- Worked on an Agile Scrum methodology where tasks were broken down into sprints lasting 2 weeks each.
- Conducted peer reviews on code written by other developers while providing helpful feedback and suggestions.
- Encouraged offshore team members to communicate more openly and constructively with each other.
Senior Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
Smyrna, GA
02.2014 - 10.2016
- Migrate the legacy page template to a new reusable fragment and container to hold the fragments.
- Created a carousel and Hero template in Documentum to render the content on the homepage and category pages.
- Created header footer template in Documentum, which helps the product team avoid manual updates on HTML content.
- worked in the Endeca page builder tool to control the layout of the website page.
- Handled a lot of creative publishing issues and User errors in Production during the Thanksgiving holiday.
- Maintained coding standards by following best practices for writing clean code that is easy to read and maintain.
- Delivered end-user training on content management systems allowing creative team to make easy updates and maintenance to website without developer assistance.
Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
Chennai, India
02.2012 - 01.2014
- This project is mainly intended to manage content on the Home Depot website.
- Worked on building category pages in production.
- Worked on creating page per store template and Managing content for each store.
- Created custom responsive designs that optimized the website layout for various devices.
- Tested cross-browser compatibility of web applications in multiple browsers.
- Handled the production support issue in .com, Mobile and Tablet sites.
Front End Developer
TCS Internal
Bhubaneswar, India
10.2008 - 01.2012
- I worked in Building an e-commerce website using the open-source tool ofbiz. On top of the functionality provided by Ofbiz, we created end-to-end page templates.
- Showcase the project and get the client carnation. Design the website with their UI and make sure the pages are responsive.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronic Communication And Engineering
SRM University
India05-2008
Skills
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Ajax
- TypeScript
- ReactJS
- GraphQL
- Generative AI
- Jenkins
- Concourse
- EMC Documentum
- Endeca Page Builder
- Apache OFBiz
- Light House Metrics
- Java
Tools
- GIT, SVN, GitLab
- JIRA, Pivotal
- Slack, Teams, Confluence
- New Relic
- DbVisualizer
- Visual Studio code, IntelliJ, PyCharm
Accomplishments
- Outstanding Contribution Award
- Contextual Master Award
- On The Spot Award
- Star of the Month Award
- Star Team Award
- Bravo Award
Certification
- GitHub Foundations
- GitHub Copilot
- Associate Cloud Engineer
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Tamil
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Lead Developer
The Home Depot Inc
02.2026 - Current
Lead Developer
The Home Depot Inc
05.2025 - 01.2026
Lead Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
04.2022 - 04.2025
Lead Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
05.2020 - 03.2022
Lead Front End Developer
Macy’s Systems and Technology, Inc
04.2019 - 04.2020
Senior Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
10.2016 - 03.2019
Senior Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
02.2014 - 10.2016
Front End Developer
The Home Depot Inc
02.2012 - 01.2014
Front End Developer
TCS Internal
10.2008 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Technology - Electronic Communication And Engineering
SRM University