Lalitha Chekka
Senior Developer
Edmond,Oklahoma
Summary
- Motivated Senior Software Engineer offering 8.5 years of experience. Enthusiastic about developing forward-thinking solutions to tomorrow's productivity problems. Resourceful and adaptable approach to challenges.
- Proven history of developing useful, efficient and cost-effective projects.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Developer
Paycom
04.2023 - Current
- Developed web application based of C# and React named ARTEmis for comparing production code and staging code to avoid live issues. Reduced live issues by 85% in high risk modules.
- Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns
Senior Engineer
Qualcomm
09.2021 - 12.2022
- Designed and developed CLI in python that meets developer needs and improves productivity. Reduced failure percentage in CI Preflight by 90%.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines using groovy for preflight and daily SDK build generations.
- Developed and implemented proactive maintenance practices like designing interface that monitors CI machines' disk usage space, filer retention policy.
- Automated branch cut and creation of new jenkins pipeline process. Reduced time by 96%.
Senior Software Engineer
Xilinx
01.2019 - 09.2021
- Co-created and maintained extensible and scalable Xilinx Test Framework (XTF) in Python to perform system/unit regressions. Open-source since Nov 2020 (Github).
- Developed python interface for CI to invoke Jenkins jobs for all test components. Reduces setup time per patch by 70% and eliminates human errors and false alarms.
- Mentored 10 SSW Verification Engineers and trained them for hands-on on XTF and other software practices.
- Developed Groovy Pipeline libraries to replicate Jenkins UI. Optimized test runs by 80%.
Senior Software Engineer
Rockwell Collins
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Reduced overall testing hours by 85% by writing software in python to generate automated test procedures from test cases to Vector Cast Tool.
- Developed software Gesture Recognition on Cockpit Displays, that detects pilot gestures for touch-free page navigation.
- Developed multiple tools in Python to check util updates to run test procedures and generate error logs.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
SASTRA University
Tanjore, India05.2015
Skills
- Programming: C, C, C#
- Scripting: Python, Bash, Groovy
- OS: Linux, Windows
- Source Control: Git, SVN, GitLab
- Agile Methodology, V-Model
- Regression: Jenkins, LSF, CI
- Requirement Tools: Jama, DOORS, Jira
- IDEs: Eclipse, Visual Studio
- Review tools: Gerrit
- Logging tools: Splunk
Accomplishments
- Employee of the Month (Oct 2020, Jan 2019, July 2018, Aug 2017, Jan 2016 and Feb 2016)
- Dean's List scholarship in SASTRA for all 4 years
- State 8th Rank in SSC
Timeline
Senior Developer
Paycom
04.2023 - Current
Senior Engineer
Qualcomm
09.2021 - 12.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Xilinx
01.2019 - 09.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Rockwell Collins
01.2015 - 01.2019
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
SASTRA University