Lakshmi Donepalli

Career Progression: Software Engineer → Software Engineer II → Software Engineer III → Lead Software Engineer.

• Lead and mentor a team of eight developers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and training to ensure best practices in design, development, and deployment.
• Partner with business analysts, product owners, QA, and DevOps teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive architecture and design discussions with other technical leads to ensure system-wide consistency and performance.
• Managed end-to-end development of critical retail management features, from gathering requirements to production deployment.
• Transitioning order management from legacy desktop applications to Angular-based web applications.
• Migrating the source of truth for data from local on-premises servers to an Azure SQL centralized database via REST APIs.
• Led performance optimization initiatives by tuning APIs, stored procedures, and frontend processes, significantly improving application response times.
• Designed and developed real-time purchase order syncing with suppliers through third-party API integrations, enhancing operational efficiency.
• Developed Azure Functions for scheduled reporting and reconciliation tasks, and worked on Databricks pipelines for enterprise-level reporting and analytics.

Key Projects:

• Special Order Management Tool – Built an Angular + .NET Core solution for managing multi-location orders with centralized fulfillment logic.
• Purchase Order Syncing – Developed WPF/.NET API integrations for real-time supplier order updates.
• Orders Migration – Transitioned order management to Angular, REST APIs, for scalability, and maintainability.
• Azure Migration – Enhanced legacy desktop apps to leverage Azure SQL and App Services, modernizing infrastructure.

Achievements:

• Successfully led major system migrations impacting thousands of retail locations.
• Improved application performance by optimizing SQL queries and API endpoints.
• Promoted to Lead Software Engineer for technical excellence and leadership impact.