Aashita Desai
Engineering Team Lead at Braze
Bolton, England, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAashita Desai is an engineering team lead with nine years of full-stack experience building and scaling web products, including a platform reaching 2 million active users. She progressed through technical and growth roles at Braze, moving from Growth Engineer to Engineering Team Lead, blending product-focused experimentation with robust backend and cloud engineering. Proficient across JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Angular, Node/.NET, SQL and NoSQL databases, she has hands-on experience deploying services on AWS, Azure and GCP and running observability with Splunk and Grafana. Comfortable shipping end-to-end features, she pairs UX-minded front-end design (Figma, Angular Material) with API and systems work (REST/GraphQL, Kafka, Kubernetes). Aashita’s background spans startups and corporate environments and includes a CS master’s from Stevens, giving her both rapid iteration instincts and disciplined system design. She’s particularly adept at translating growth metrics into technical experiments that directly move KPIs, an often-overlooked bridge between engineering and product.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information & Communication Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information & Communication Technology at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Spanish, English, Hindi, Gujarati, british english
Github Skills (7)
braze10
user-feedback10
mhealth9
fact-checking9
appboy9
documentation8
open-source7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aashitadsai/pokedex
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
display pokemon list with abilities
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
abilities
aashitadsai/aashitadesai.me
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.