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Richa B.

Senior Software Engineer

New Delhi, India

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About Me

Richa is an experienced and innovative Software Developer with over 12 years of experience, who loves writing clean code and that has developed several web applications with Ruby on Rails and React, as well as mobile applications with React Native (both iOS and Android). She is motivated to work with clients and help bring out their ideas into an integrated software solution.

Ruby on Rails 12 years Ruby 12 years JavaScript 12 years jQuery 12 years AJAX 12 years Git 12 years AWS 7 years Full Stack Development 8 years Apache Cassandra 9 years HAML 7 years MongoDB 2 years Nginx 9 years Node.js 2 years React Native 3 years React.js 3 years Redux 3 years SASS 7 years Selenium 9 years HTML 12 years CSS 12 years PostgreSQL 9 years MySQL 12 years

Portfolio

Full Stack Developer - Keep Collective

Name of the Company: Self Employed (contractor for Stella&Dot) KEEP is a platform providing an opportunity to women entrepreneurs in designing world. Worked on Ruby on Rails micro-services development and PRS support. Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, Backbone, Marionette, JIRA, Github

Full Stack Developer - Eezyride

Eezyride (formerly known as Breezehike) is a peer-to-peer road trip platform where people connect to make travel more accessible by matching passengers with drivers who share common travel plans. Worked on everything starting from planning to designs to development to launch. Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, Amazon AWS, Google Maps.

Software Developer - Bugwolf

Bugwolf is a platform to audit the quality of software, websites, and mobile apps. Worked on Rails API to feed the front-end. Got familiar with various tools which can be easily plugged in with Rails such as Twilio for SMS services, QR/Barcode generation, and reading. Integrated Rails APIs with ReactJs front-end. Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, ReactJS.

Software Developer - LoveYourPet

LoveYourPet is an online On Demand Pet training platform where customers can book well-experienced trainers for an online consultation session for their pets. It is integrated with third-party tools like zoom.us (for online video/audio sessions), acuity-scheduling (for managing appointments), and Stripe (for payment integration). Integrated third parties for completing the online counseling process. Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, zoom.us, acuity-scheduling, stripe

Sole Developer - Drink Perfect: Food & Drink Deals Discovery

Drink Perfect lets you see all the deals, specials, and events happening in restaurants, cafes, and bars in your city and provide an additional discount of $150 on food and beverages every month. Worked as a sole Full Stack Developer, designing the complete application architecture. Worked on the frontend of the iOS and Android apps and built APIs in Ruby on Rails to consume via mobile apps. Solved Google Map API-related performance issues and worked on server management. Deployed on Google Play Store and App Store in a short span of time.

Full Stack Developer - Instrumentl

Instrumentl is a Grant Acceleration Platform, with 1,000+ nonprofits, universities, and grant writers trusting Instrumentl to drive success & efficiency. The platform matches you with upcoming open grant opportunities that have the highest ROI for your specific projects. Stay on top of all deadlines and keep your funding history, future opportunities, and more in one place. Easily see progress toward your own funding goals. Worked as Full Stack Developer in a team of 2 developers and participated in problem-solving discussions and sprint planning. Handled production bugs using Bugsnag and Papertrail. Technologies used: EmberJS, Ruby on Rails.

Work history

UpStack

FullStack Developer

2018 - Present (5 years)

Remote

Creating and developing innovative software solutions for different clients across a broad range of industries.
Working as a Full-Stack developer, developing applications using React Native and Ruby.
Worked on the development of Instrumentl, the best platform for grant seekers looking to grow revenue.

Ruby on Rails React Native Heroku Apache Maven Nginx AWS

Instrumentl

Full Stack Developer

2018 - 2020 (2 years)

Remote

Was part of a team of two developers, working on the development of a platform tha helps the nonprofits to be more effective and efficient with grants by building software tools.
Participated in problem solving discussions and sprint planning. Handled production bugs using Bugsnag and Papertrail.
Worked on performance related projects to decrease average server response time and increase Google Pagespeed scores.

Ruby on Rails Ember.js Full Stack Development JavaScript bugsnag Papertrail

Drink Perfect

Sole Full Stack Developer

2017 - 2017

Remote

Worked as Sole full-stack developer to develop a mobile app and discovery platform that lets the customers get a $5 discount on their first drink of each day in any bars or restaurants on the app.
Designed the complete application architecture and worked on the frontend of the iOS and Android apps.
Built APIs in Ruby on Rails to consume via mobile apps. Integrated Google Map APIs which was extensively used for searching and displaying locations.

React Native Ruby on Rails Google API

Self Employed

Full-Stack developer / CTO / Front-end developer / RoR Developer

2013 - Present (10 years)

New Delhi, India

Created and managed a team of 5 remote developers and built several web and mobile projects for different clients worldwide.
Worked closely with the team members to get the web and mobile applications developed and launched successfully and helped them in every step of the software development life cycle.
Performed server management, post-launch production support, bug fixing and maintenance and took necessary technical decisions in software architecture for better performance of the applications.

Ruby on Rails React Native Google App Engine

Quovantis

Technology Lead

2012 - 2013 (1 year)

New Delhi, India

Worked on building web applications in Ruby on Rails and managed a team of 4 developers.
Handled server deployment and management of all RoR applications on Linode, AWS and Heroku and organized Ruby on Rails sessions to explain basic and advanced Rails features.
Designed and developed several applications and got a double promotion from a Software Developer to a Technology Lead.

Ruby on Rails Ruby

Khojguru

Ruby on Rails Developer

2011 - 2012 (1 year)

New Delhi, India

Performed feature development in Ruby on Rails which allowed to send campaign emails to the targeted audience.
Worked with the CTO directly to discuss and develop more features for the product.
Connected the application with the other web services.

Ruby on Rails Ruby

Vinsol

Ruby on Rails developer

2009 - 2011 (2 years)

New Delhi, India

Launched an MVP in 1.5 months and the product had a very successful launch in South Africa.
Implemented several other features in RoR as a fresher and got the project done on time even with the challenge of going through a learning curve.
Performed SMS gateway integration to receive OTP and worked on generating coupons in pdf format.

Ruby on Rails Process Improvement

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, Kurukshetra University, 2009

Kurukshetra University

2005 - 2009 (4 years)