MANISH PADAKANTI
McKinney
Summary
An innovative front-end developer with a proven track record of 12 years in creating scalable, high-performance, accessible web solutions. My expertise in JavaScript, various frameworks and front-end architecture allows me to lead the technical design and development of applications under agile methodologies. Leveraging my exposure to backend technologies, I am now aspiring to transition into a managerial role to drive projects to completion and support organizational goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
ICE Mortgage Technology
01.2018 - Current
- Developed and optimized a sales acceleration platform using ReactJS, AngularJS, and Salesforce Lightning for enterprise clients.
- Led React project architecture, integrating state management tools like Redux, Thunk, and RTK for performance optimization.
- Migrated a legacy AngularJS application to React, ensuring cross-compatibility during the transition.
- Built custom Salesforce Lightning components (LWC, Aura) and Apex API methods to meet business needs.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams (product, QA, backend) to define project requirements and ensure alignment.
- Implemented accessibility best practices to improve user experience and meet compliance standards.
- Redesigned Visualforce-based apps, transitioning to Salesforce Lightning architecture for enhanced usability and performance.
- Created mobile-friendly, single-page applications (SPA) using AngularJS and ReactJS, optimizing for responsive design.
- Managed build scripts with Webpack and Gulp, optimizing app performance through bundling and cache busting.
- Developed prototypes and proofs-of-concept, incorporating feedback for continuous product improvements.
- Wrote unit tests following best practices in test-driven development to ensure code quality and prevent regressions.
- Led daily scrum meetings, managing task assignments, planning, and sprint breakdowns for timely delivery.
- Mentored front-end developers on clean code practices, efficiency, maintainability, and scalability.
- Acted as a liaison between teams (product, front-end, QA, backend) to ensure seamless collaboration during sprints.
- Took on increased managerial responsibilities, focusing on team growth, process optimization, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Conducted thorough code reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and functionality.
- Collaborated with UI/UX designers to improve software usability and user experience.
- Managed version control systems and maintained codebase integrity.
- Documented software designs and architecture for future reference and maintenance.
- Led small development teams, overseeing project progress and mentoring junior engineers.
- Assisted in the estimation of project scopes and timelines during planning phases.
- Reviewed project requirements to identify customer expectations and resources needed to implement new features for keeping up the retention.
UI DEVELOPER
Abbvie
01.2015 - 01.2018
- Built GBRS (Global Biologics Registration System), a native client-side web app built in AngularJS from scratch.
- Sole UI developer responsible to lead requirements gathering, documentation, and prioritization.
- Developed best practices and coding standards based on the industry wide IT practices.
- Wrote custom directives to transform the use of DOM elements throughout the application.
- Experience with JS visualization libraries (D3JS), front-end build tools (Grunt and Gulp.js).
- Created the Node.js/Express Server to build MVC framework from front-end side AngularJS to restful, in order to provide services within the application to serve the web pages.
- Experience using external plugins like angular-datatables, ui-router, ui-grid, smart-tables, bootstrap.
- Dev Tools/Environment: Bootstrap, Angular-Strap, CSS, JQuery, HTML, Angular-Bootstrap, JavaScript, AngularJS, NodeJS, Gulp, D3JS, JAVA, Rest endpoints.
UI DEVELOPER
BCBS Michigan
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Developed SMS Xpress application to configure insurance solutions quickly and efficiently in an Agile environment.
- Started with a front-end mock up design and then integrated it with all the solutions and parameters from the backend in Grails application.
- Developed Web pages using HTML, CSS, JQuery (using Dreamweaver) tool.
- Built contemporary single page site using AngularJS for mockup before developing in Dreamweaver.
- Utilized customized directives for HTML attributes, elements and name in AngularJS.
- Dev Tools/Environment: Grails 1.3.7, jdk 1.6, Websphere, Toad, Groovy/Grails Tool Suite by Spring, TOAD, Adobe Dreamweaver CS 5.5, JSP, HTML, Jquery.
Education
MS - Computer Science
SUNY IT
B.Tech - Computer Science
JNTU Hyderabad
Skills
- React JS
- Angular JS
- Angular 20
- Salesforce Lighting
- Node JS
- Groovy on Grails
- JavaScript
- JQuery
- CSS
- Apex
- HTML
- Redux
- Redux Thunk
- Redux Toolkit (RTK)
- RTK Query
- ASPNET
- C#
- Team leadership
- Web application development
- Project leadership
- Agile development
- Requirements gathering
- Planning
- Design
- Development
- Testing
Timeline
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
ICE Mortgage Technology
01.2018 - Current
UI DEVELOPER
Abbvie
01.2015 - 01.2018
UI DEVELOPER
BCBS Michigan
01.2014 - 01.2015
MS - Computer Science
SUNY IT
B.Tech - Computer Science
JNTU Hyderabad