Arun Karnati Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

Responsible for making application-level architecture decisions, evaluating them, steering them to development, and finally launching them as new features of the LightBox Core application.I seek opportunities to institutionalize knowledge across the company by educating developers outside the team.Actively contributing to the development teams by pair programming, reviewing code, conducting design discussion meetings, steering roadmaps, and assisting with developing requirements to increase the caliber of technical decision-making.I created a reusable component library that includes UI Components, Utilities, Widgets, Workspaces, etc., that can be used by any React-based application within LightBox. The library is now a lynchpin in the developer experience at LightBox.I work with a suite of applications that uses various web technologies and frameworks to serve different parts of the application. Some of these technologies include, but are not limited to, Node.js, TypeScript, React (and libraries including Redux, Chakra UI, etc.), Express.js, Leaflet, DynamoDB, Drupal, Apigee, Docker, Websocket API, etc.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

While I was at Promenade, I mainly worked on the Magento platform, specifically order handling, catalog management, indexing, and payment processing systems like Stripe.I worked on the POS system, which was built primarily using React, Redux, and GraphQL on the front end and a LAMP stack with ES on the back end.I moved database triggers logic to application code to reduce complexity, increase maintainability, and improve performance.Creates new modules to extend the platform functionality based on business requirements.Develop and maintain RESTful web services in PHP.Optimize queues for faster overall performance.I worked on dockerizing the local development environment.I'm actively involved in making architectural decisions.I write and maintain technical documentation to help other developers and my future self.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Worked on the native app rewrite from scratch in React Native.Maintain our current website (www.tmz.com, a Progressive Web App)Tech Stack: Symfony 4, Twig, React, Redux, Redis, DynamoDB, Apache hosted on AWS. I am an active contributor to the team that built an in-house single-page CMS application from scratch. Tech Stack: JavaScript ES6, React, Redux, Redux-Saga, SASSWorks with the Message Oriented Middleware/API that serves our apps' data, including our all-new adaptive site, native apps, feeds, and CMS.Create, maintain, and release various micro-services to write data to Amazon Kinesis.I used Firebase Cloud Messaging to enable push notifications for TMZ.I contributed to the custom CI project, deployment scripts, AWS services, including CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, SNS, SQS.Uses Kanban board to manage projects.

Reno, Nevada Area

Developed, extended, and maintained property websites and web applications.Worked with Drupal 8 to build brand new sites for six properties.I am actively involved in designing and deploying websites utilizing AWS stack (Including EC2, SNS, SQS, IAM, and Dynamo DB).Used AWS Lambda functions to create database triggers.I have worked with the deployment process, written Shell scripts to automate the AWS CodeBuild and CodeDeploy.Maintained a casino player portal built using Symfony, ReactJS/ES6, and SASS.I have worked with SEO tracking vendor applications like BrightEdge, Searchmetrics, and Moz.

Reno, Nevada Area

Lead a four-member team to develop an in-house solution for test management - Tech stack used - PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript with Apache web server on Debian.Extended XML-RPC API is written in PHP to automate online game testing.I have written unit tests in PHPUnit and Tape for server and client-side applications, respectively.I have written shell scripts to streamline the deployment process.

Reno, Nevada Area

Developed database-driven websites using PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.We created Facebook apps for promotions, contests, and sweepstakes.Tech Stack for Facebook apps: Facebook Graph API, JavaScript, and PHP SDK.We built websites using content management platforms like Drupal, Expression Engine, and WordPress.I have worked with various PHP frameworks CodeIgniter and Zend.I have worked with Shopify and Zen Cart.

Reno, Nevada Area

Developed, extended, and maintained websites and web applications for ASUN (Associated Students of the University of Nevada), an undergraduate organization.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Indian Students Organization.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Science

I built a Project Management Tool using the LAMP stack for my final year project.