Richa G is a software development manager with 10 years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams and shipping customer-facing products across startups and large enterprises. Currently at Qualtrics after directing a geographically distributed team at Care.com, she has managed monolithic Rails systems alongside low-latency microservices in Go, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka and AWS, and driven product and technical roadmaps. As Lead UI Engineer on Teradata’s Covalent design system, she contributed significant front-end component work, Angular/Material upgrades, and documentation that improved developer UX for a widely used internal UI library. She combines hands-on coding and architectural oversight with people leadership—hiring, coaching, and maintaining one of the lowest support backlogs through strong incident and on-call practices. Her background spans performance optimization work at MathWorks and earlier QA and engineering roles at SAP and Oracle, giving her a pragmatic focus on reliability and testability. Colleagues describe her as a data-informed leader who bridges product strategy and engineering execution while still shipping front-end polish.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Delhi
Contributions:5 reviews, 37 commits, 62 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Richa primarily focused on updating and implementing various components within the Covalent design system, including file upload, HTTP, media, and chart features. They also upgraded Angular and Material modules, addressing breaking changes and refactoring code. Furthermore, they added examples for new features such as snackbars and dialogs while updating documentation to reflect these changes.
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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Richa G - Software Development Manager at Qualtrics