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Vijaya Laxmi

Senior Full Stack Engineer vijaya2798@gmail.com · GitHub · LinkedIn

Results-driven Senior Full Stack Engineer with a proven record of delivering scalable web applications and measurable impact—over $4M in cost savings, 13% traffic reduction, and 80% improvement in photo upload success rates. Skilled in modern tech stacks, data-driven design, and leading cross-functional teams to ship complex, user-focused solutions end-to-end.

Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (Aug 2014 – Jun 2018)

Experience

Full Stack Engineer — Wayfair

Bengaluru, India · Jan 2024 – June 2025

  • Incident Photo Portal:
    • Designed and delivered a modernized photo upload experience, increasing the upload success rate to 80% by overhauling the legacy Incident Photo Portal.
    • Led a team of 3 developers to implement the new portal using React, integrating features such as drag-and-drop uploads via React Dropzone and enhancing overall UI/UX.
    • Collaborated cross-functionally with stakeholders across multiple teams and time zones to gather requirements, align on vision, and ensure seamless adoption.
  • Developed Unified Help & Contact Portal with self-service features, achieving $4M cost reduction through automated customer support and decreased agent contacts.
  • Reduced monolith traffic by 13% by decommissioning legacy address and ticket controllers, enhancing system performance.
  • Improved service code to make calculation of metrics like last free date for all types of shipments in a single service, reducing miscalculations and improving maintainability of code.

Full Stack Engineer (Chrome Extension) — QuillBot

Remote · Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

  • Added support for rendering on block editors such as WordPress, used by over 20k users weekly.
  • Increased extension compatibility by 30% across websites by developing an editor detection script with iframe support for the Quillbot extension.
  • Achieved 2% increase in user grammar suggestion acceptance by implementing tone formality features in the grammar checker API to refine ML model outputs.
  • Drove 12% growth in extension paraphraser usage through comprehensive data engineering, analysis, and A/B testing implementation using Amplitude.
  • Enhanced user experience for 60,000 weekly users by integrating react-draggable library to enable Chrome app dragging functionality.

Software Engineer — MIND

Noida, India · Jul 2018 – Jan 2022

  • Created app navigation (for easy onboarding) using Angular library ngx-joyride.
  • Improved product quality by adding support of internationalization to the product.
  • Integrated Office Online into application using WOPI protocol.

Software Engineering Intern — CDAC Bangalore

Bengaluru, India · June 2017 – Jul 2017

  • Developed an Android application C-SIGN, enabling user identity verification using digital signatures and two-factor authentication.

Skills

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, HTML5, CSS3, Java, C++, SQL

Frameworks: Next, React, Redux, Angular, GraphQL

Tools & Technologies: Amplitude, PowerBI, ELK Stack

Soft Skills: Leadership, Collaboration and Communication

Projects

C-Sign

  • Identifying user based on his/her digital signature created through application
  • Application uses digital certificate to authenticate the user before displaying the related content
  • Technology stack used: Android Studio, SQL, Java, XML, phpMyAdmin

Sentiment Analysis

  • Application to analyze the user sentiment of reviews from a movie review website
  • Technology stack used: Python, NLP, AI/ML, Naive Bayes