Uma Katakam
Senior Director Of Technology at Target
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUma Katakam is a seasoned technology leader with 11+ years of experience building high-performing, distributed engineering teams and delivering scalable, user-centric web applications. Currently Senior Director of Technology at Target, she has driven large-scale eCommerce and experimentation platforms across Wayfair and Walmart Global Tech, blending front-end expertise in React with Node.js and Spring backends. Uma is a pragmatic advocate of Agile, clean architecture and data-driven decision making, with hands-on history shipping PWAs, site-speed and personalization initiatives that materially improved customer experience. She excels at turning complex, cross-functional problems into measurable outcomes while developing engineers and cultivating remote-team productivity. Less obvious: her background spans both legacy enterprise stacks (GWT, Java EE) and modern JS toolchains, giving her rare fluency for leading technology migrations and bridging long-term maintainability with rapid delivery.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at Osmania University
Telugu
Github Skills (28)
yeoman6
gulp-plugin6
html-entities5
gulp4
sourcemaps4
drawing4
react4
automation3
decode3
react-component3
encode3
webpack2
canvas2
xml2
babel-plugin2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KatDevs/canvaschat
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 23 PRs, 17 pushes in 12 days
umkatakam/nodeproxy
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
proxy-servernodejsproxy
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