Summary
Kavita Laddad is a software engineer based in San Jose with eight years of professional experience building full-stack web applications using Scala, Scala.js, React, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript toolchains. She combines backend expertise—Scala, Spark, Postgres, GraphQL, AWS—with front-end craftsmanship in React, Next.js, CSS/SCSS and server-side rendering to deliver production-grade user experiences. As co-founder of Paya Labs she led end-to-end development of a global online music-learning platform, owning REST/GraphQL APIs, CI/CD, and cross-browser SPA frontends. At realtor.com she shipped feature experiments and coordinated product, analytics, and A/B testing to drive consumer recapture initiatives. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, she also brings QA-focused practices (ScalaTest, Selenium, Jest) and a history of integrating analytics and optimization into feature work. Colleagues would describe her as a pragmatic engineer who bridges product needs and stable engineering through hands-on implementation and cross-team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Amravati University