Avanthika Meenakshi
Senior Software Engineer at Buyapowa
Newquay, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAvanthika Meenakshi is a Senior Backend Engineer with 10 years of experience building product-focused, maintainable systems across startups and scale-ups. She began in frontend but now specializes in backend work using TypeScript, Node.js, React, and AWS, emphasizing system design, performance, and evolvability. Avanthika has delivered end-to-end features, improved reliability, and simplified complex architectures at companies including eBay, Moonpig, PetsApp, and most recently LoPay. She prefers pragmatic trade-offs and fast iteration over over-engineering, and values clear feedback loops that connect engineering decisions to real user impact. Based in Newquay, UK, she combines hands-on coding with a mentor mindset developed through roles like Software Engineering Mentor at Thinkful. An understated strength is her product-first approach—planning thoughtful trade-offs before writing code—to keep long-term maintainability aligned with short-term delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Tamil, English
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javascript
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asynchronous
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fetch-api
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Github Skills (50)
javascript9
asynchronous9
react9
fetch-api9
rich-text-editor8
editing8
wysiwyg8
inline8
ckeditor8
contenteditable8
premailer7
rte7
html-editor7
ace-editor7
text-editing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AvanthikaMeenakshi/avanthikameenakshi.github.io
Sep 2019 - Aug 2024
Personal portfolio
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
cssjavascriptreactreactjs
AvanthikaMeenakshi/ReactNodeNew
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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