Ray Farooqui

About Ray Farooqui

12+ years of experience in developing and designing cutting edge web applications.Hands on user interface design and development experience with consumer facing single page web applications.Strong fundamental working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and its libraries.Well versed with client interaction, requirements gathering and translation of requirements into functional design, also responsible fortechnical design and user documentation.Extensive experience playing a role in highly collaborative teams to design RESTful API interfaces.Long track record of successfully working in fast paced environments to meet key business deadlines.Skills:Angular, Redux, jQuery, AsyncJS, Highcharts, MomentJS, D3JS, React, NextJS, LearnaJS, NodeJS, GraphQL, Apollo, webpack, NPM, yarn, PHP, Adobe Analytics, Lodash, Blueprint, Bootstrap, Tailwinds, styled components, Mapbox, Openlayers, MapLibre, Material UI, CSS3, HTML5, Webpack, Micro-frontends, Module Federation, GIS development, etc.

Experience

1. Frontend Software Architect

   Hitachi Energy

   Jun 2020 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Led the design and development of common libraries that consist of common components and common services that helped develop applications faster across the company. Architected a frontend deployment architecture using micro-frontends and docker runtime environment variablesReduced asset loading time across multiple applications by 80% using module federation and webpack optimizationsLed the upgrade of Webpack to v5 across multiple applications and created a migration document which assisted other teams transition to Webpack 5Led the core UI/UX committee to develop and conceptualize a comprehensive UX/UI strategy for applications across the companyCollaborated with backend engineers to develop backend for frontend architecture thereby optimizing network calls and content deliveryDeveloped a offline caching mechanism to cater to the offline requirements for applications using service workers and indexedDbBuilt a common frontend framework that helped teams to optimize their code by running unit tests, checking for lint errors and checking for security issues by auditing npm libraries which helped developers write more robust code (pre-push)Developed a Request pipeline which runs with every pull request created. This pipeline ensured things such as code lints, 3rd party library vulnerabilities, tests were in place and ran successfully before the feature branch could be merged into the main branch.Co-ordinated UI/UX meetings and communicated updates, bottlenecks and gathered requirements around new common componentsResearched different open source GIS solutions in order to architect an application that required real time rendering of the grid and devices.Coordinated lunch and learn sessions regularly to help improve the technical knowledge around the teamAdded internationalization support and support for right text languages across the applications using i18nextImplemented storybook to document & catalog the React UI Component Library

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2007 — 2011

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Master's degree, Information Technology

  2012 — 2013