Ragul Murugesan

Software Developer with 10 years of experience delivering scalable, high-performance user interfaces for enterprise products. Recognized with multiple client and company awards for technical excellence, accessibility improvements, and mentoring cross-functional teams.

Lead Engineer at Publicis Sapient (Client: Tesco) (2024-07 – Present)

• Developed multiple features in micro-frontend architecture using Node.js, GraphQL, and modern web frameworks, enabling scalable and modular feature delivery.
• Led Unpacked initiative for 2 consecutive years, handled cross-team collaboration across Backend, Orchestration Layer, driving enhancements in customer engagement and loyalty experience.
• Executed Analytics upgrade across Loyalty codebase, improving reporting accuracy by 40% and enabling faster business insights.
• Collaborated with CMS team to deliver marketing campaign pages, ensuring seamless integration of content management with loyalty features.
• Owned deployment pipelines, on-call support, and 24x7 alert handling, ensuring high availability and reliability of mission-critical systems.

Senior Software Development Engineer II at Delphix by Perforce (2023-11 – 2024-05)

• Owned the UI development for DCS (Delphix Compliance Service), a data masking DevOps SaaS product utilizing AWS Lambda for the Salesforce Sandbox, addressing complex data challenges.
• Wrote end-to-end test cases in Python that increased test coverage by 15%.
• Developed the UI of two product modules, independently managing all aspects from design to implementation with RESTful APIs.
• Collaborated on a hackathon project, leveraging teamwork to design and develop interactive visualizations (donut and bar charts) that effectively communicated masking data statistics.
• Utilized expertise in data structures and component libraries like AG Grid and AG Charts to optimize frontend performance for handling large datasets with JSON objects.

Software Development Engineer II at Reflektive Labs (2021-09 – 2023-11)

• Designed and implemented diverse components with responsive design including the Rich Profile View, Step Wizard, and Sliding Drawer, capable of efficiently managing user information such as reviews, goals, and manager responses.
• Elevated the functionality of the Microsoft Teams plugin chatbot, facilitating user access to product features through intuitive commands.
• Migrated the project from Backbone JS to React starting from MVP to full-scale product, achieving super-fast DOM rendering and manipulation.
• Enhanced product quality and web performance by Unit Testing with Jest and Enzyme, efficient Webpack bundling, Babel configuration, and implementing lazy loading techniques to boost performance.

Software Engineer II at Software AG (2019-09 – 2021-09)

• Redesigned WebMethods API Gateway Product interface, unifying product themes to deliver a cohesive and consistent user experience across the suite.
• Developed WCAG 2.1–compliant screens from the ground up, significantly improving accessibility standards and inclusivity.
• Enhanced team capabilities through training in product management, code readability, optimized rendering, robust testing practices, and modern DevOps with Docker/Kubernetes for seamless containerization and conflict-free environments.

Software Engineer at Ducen IT Pvt Ltd (2016-08 – 2019-09)

• Designed and implemented the user interface for Analance, a Business Intelligence Tool, from the ground up using Angular.
• Led an Agile Scrum team of 6 web development experts, contributed to product design by understanding user requirements, Figma prototypes, and wireframes, and handled work distribution with Jira dashboards.
• Successfully transformed the client's E-Commerce website, migrating it from an outdated Monolith application to React JS with Micro-frontend and Microservices, with updated UI/UX design and Redux for state management.
• Mentored a cohort of 20 junior developers in front-end technologies, equipping them with essential skills like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, AJAX, npm, yarn, and version control.

Bachelor of Engineering – Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore (2012 – 2016)

Schooling – Perks Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore (2012)