Looking for a mission driven role where I can bring in my over 20 years of hands-on and leadership experience. Track record of building and delivering high quality, complex projects in serving millions of mobile and web users. I help grow small technology teams into mature, high functioning organizations built on strong foundations that deliver high quality, world class products.
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Lalit Bhatia
@lalitbhatia
Experienced software engineer with expertise in NodeJS, Express, Angular, React Mongo, Postgres
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I'm a hands-on Software Engineering leader with experience in architecting and developing high throughput microservices that serve web, ios and android applications. These are all highly secure and resilient microservices that are integrated with state of the art ci/cd pipelines, containerized and scaled, and serving a complex set of features with a low latency for over 5 million active subscribers. I have more than 20 years of experience in a health and wellness industry in a data driven, high throughput, highly secure cloud based environment. I have excellent problem solving, interpersonal, mentoring and collaboration skills with a track record of achieving exceptional results in timely, high quality, complex projects that serve millions of mobile and web users.
My main expertise is in Javascript frameworks and libraries like NodeJS, Express, Angular, React and I have worked extensively with MongoDB and Postgres, with some past experience in Oracle. I am alway eager to learn new technologies and am currently learning NextJS and concepts of AI and ML, doing some small projects with langChain
Experience
WIDirector of engineering
weightwatchers Intl
Apr 2016 - May 2023 (7 years 1 month)
--Key player in the most significant Technology Transformation at WeightWatchers where our consumer applications were moved from monolithic, self-hosted systems to highly
--Oversaw design, architecture and development of Weightwatchers' integrations with fitness, weight and sleep tracking devices like FitBit, Apple Watch etc
--Developed over 50 high throughput, highly secure cloud based apis
WISenior Engineer/Applicaiton Architect
weightwatchers Intl
Apr 2010 - Apr 2016 (6 years)
--Built the first set of new full-stack MEAN applications in that saw the transition of WeightWatchers from SOAP based to REST apis and single page web applications
Worked closely with offshore teams fixing issues, keeping services up, debugging, data transformation
--Design technical solutions, providing estimates, managing development teams in our local and off-shore offices
WISoftware Engineer
weightwatchers Intl
May 2001 - Apr 2010 (8 years 11 months)
--One of the key Oracle database developers in the company’s maiden digital offering in the US market.
-- Responsible for writing some of the key ETL processes using PL/SQL, connecting some of our legacy systems with the .com business
--Developed a wide range of product offerings and enhancements to the WeightWatchers site using diverse technology skills such as PL/SQL, javascript/jQuery
WCSoftware Engineer
Whitney and Company
Nov 2000 - May 2001 (6 months)
--As a PL/SQL programmer, I wrote, upgraded and maintained the scripts responsible for updating and loading the data into the company website.
--Using Oracle Forms, created a form to view, maintain and update data in the company’s HR database.
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Location
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Salary expectations
150k-210k USD
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