Summary
Janaki S is a frontend-focused Software Engineer with 9 years of industry experience and five years specializing in modern web technologies. Currently at Coursera after impactful stints at Rocketlane and Unacademy, she has a track record of improving perceived performance (cutting Interaction to Next Paint from 1s to 173ms), shipping complex features like sprints and real-time team planners, and building high-quality, pixel-perfect interfaces. She excels in React/TypeScript ecosystems, has implemented web sockets, Playwright E2E tests, micro-frontends, and performance-minded SSR/ISR pages with consistently high Lighthouse scores. Beyond feature work she’s mentored juniors, run hiring interviews, and served on-call, blending product collaboration with operational ownership. An engineer who pairs pragmatic performance optimizations with thoughtful UX, she’s known for turning tricky realtime and scalability requirements into measurable customer impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology
High School, High School at DAV School Adambakkam
English, Tamil, Hindi