Hersha Venkatesh
Senior Full Stack Developer at Box
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHersha Venkatesh is a Senior Full Stack Developer in San Jose with 12 years of experience building ecommerce, payments, and customer-facing systems that balance technical efficiency with business outcomes. She combines deep hands-on skills in React, Node, Rails, SQL and MongoDB with a proven track record integrating payment gateways (Stripe, Braintree, CCBill) and EU tax compliance into production systems. Hersha has driven product growth as both an engineer and operator—founding an ecommerce startup that optimized pricing and reduced ad spend by 25% and growing a social networking library to 4,000+ organizations. At Box she contributes responsive UI improvements, while her open-source work includes backend fixes and admin enhancements for the widely used Paid Memberships Pro platform. Comfortable translating regulatory and business constraints into robust engineering solutions, she also brings strong communication chops from competitive public speaking and Toastmasters achievements.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Business/Managerial Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Business/Managerial Economics at UC Santa BarbaraFullstack Engineering, Computer Science, Fullstack Engineering, Computer Science at App Academy
Kannada, English
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
css10
wordpress10
responsive-design10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
mysql9
preview-pane9
previews9
stripe9
live-preview9
link-preview9
document-preview9
app-preview9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
strangerstudios/paid-memberships-pro
Feb 2014 - May 2019
The Trusted Membership Platform That Grows with You: Restrict access to content and charge recurring subscriptions using Stripe, PayPal, and more. Fully open source. 100% GPL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 38 PRs, 12 comments in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Hersha primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the Paid Memberships Pro platform. Their contributions involved modifications to core PHP files, addressing issues related to order processing, user account management, and payment gateway integrations, particularly with Stripe and Braintree. The user also implemented improvements to the admin interface, adding functionality to order filtering, member list exports and corrected timestamp management. Several commits demonstrate an understanding of the platform's codebase, including shortcodes, REST API routes and email templates.
stripeecommercepaypalsubscriptionwordpress
box/box-ui-elements
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
React Components for Box's Design System and Pluggable Components
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:117 reviews, 14 commits, 26 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hersha primarily contributed to the user interface elements of the Box UI Elements repository, enhancing the responsiveness and features of components. Their commits focused on integrating responsive behaviors into components like the Modal, Content Explorer, and Preview drawer, by modifying CSS media queries, adjusting the layout and structure of components, and testing them for small screen sizes. The user also addressed issues with the tooltips, improving their display on smaller screens.
box-previewreactbox-content-pickerboxjavascript
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