United Arab Emirates

Front-end

UX Design

Technical Product Management

Back-end

UX Engineering

iOS Engineering

Android Engineering

Bhanavi Shukla

Engineering Manager

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

React

React Native

CircleCI

D3.js

Docker

Figma

JavaScript

Jira

Miro

Notion

REST API

Node.js

Conflict resolution

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

- Delivered the JB Website built on Gatsby and Contentful within 2 months of the project conception which currently has a user base of 144K customers in KSA. Wore the hats of a Technical Project Manager, Lead Developer and CMS Admin to be able to launch the website in such a short time.

- Monitored the team's progress and provided regular updates to management and other stakeholders, while also identifying and escalating issues and blockers that were hindering the team's progress and growth. Achieved this using setting processes for Onboarding (30-60-90s, buddy system) and regular 1:1s post successful onboarding and assimilation of the individual in the team. I also mentored my team on Agile and Xtreme Programming Practices and curated Learning paths and courses for them to uplift their skills.

- Organized Guild Retrospectives to look back on our achievements and failfasts and brainstorm on a roadmap for the guild together. Used the guild roadmap to define team and individual OKRs,

- Used Data Driven methodologies to identify and measure Key Performance indicators. This included collecting data from various platforms such as Github, JIRA, Slack, collating, and then creating dashboards for better tracking and reporting.

- Was a key contributor in the behemoth effort of expanding the frontend guild from 3 to 13, which included me personally screening and interviewing approximately 30 React native developers, and 15 react developers for the team.

- Worked on a Mobile Application for a fully Digital Fintech Product. Delivered key features vital to a customer's banking experience such as Payment Card Activation, Temporary Savings accounts, Onboarding, Offboarding, KYC Expiry 
[ ReactNative | ApolloGraphQL |Typescript ]

- Helped to switch over the team processes from Kanban to Agile in order to better suit the project context and deadlines
[Scrum | Agile]

- Created a Marketing Website from scratch to showcase the Digital Fintech Product, and enable Customer Onboarding. Led the tech team involved in this project, and liaised with Product, Marketing, Design, and Strategy to ensure timely delivery.
[Gatsby | React | Contentful CMS API | Lottiefiles]

Agility
- Learnt about Scrum and XP as a part of the orientation and implemented it on a day to day basis with the team
[Jira | Visual Studio Code - Livesharing | Scrum | XP | Pair Programming ]

Consulting
- Worked closely with Design and Product to bridge the gap between designs and the built products and the process therein, while also learning more about UX, Low and Hi-fidelity designs, Design Systems and a whole lot of cool design stuff that I was previously unaware of!
[ Figma | Material.io Design System | Storybook ]

Software Engineering
- Worked with DP World for a number of cross-platform projects viz. Billing, Vehicle Booking etc, bringing better code quality, internationalization, modular themes and enhanced UI accessibility to the projects.
[ React | Redux | Redux Sagas | Material UI | Storybook | i18n | ReactXP | Jest ]

- Developed tools to replace manual work for agents - AgentOne, quality checking-
Outbound QC, sorting- Sort Station and pricing - Discounts Engine, Pricing Engine.
[ React | AngularJS | Typescript | Sass | Material UI ]

- Created templates for automated transactional
emails sent to customers as well as sellers, now known as Notification Service. 
[ Jinja | HTML | CSS ]

- Created Payments-View on the Seller Platform to aid sellers in managing their payments and other transactions hassle-free. 
[ React | Redux | SCSS ]

- Created Help Centers for customers (help.noon.com) and
sellers (help.noon.partners). 
[ Zendesk Templating Engine | Handlebars | HTML | CSS ]

- Collaborated with remote teams across
Dubai, India and Sri Lanka for misc. development and code reviews using various
tools
[ Jira | Asana | Notion | Git ]

Developed websites (mainly frontend) for their clients KiviCapital and StoneArt
Asia.
- http://www.kivicapital.in/
- https://stoneart.asia/
[ Django | AngularJS | jQuery | HTML | CSS ]

Created a internal employee referral program using Socket.io

Organize activities within the society; Manage the whole team of 20 members; Organize the society's annual cultural fest - Eloquentia;

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