Ronak studied Computer Science in gujarat / india and california / usa. He carries the blend of front-end, design and product knowledge that helps him deliver intuitive products.
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, he decided to pursue web technologies with single-minded devotion to make web a better place.
Software Engineer at GoDaddy
September 2020 - Present
- Engineer for GoDaddy Site Platform Engineering
- Helping drive and enhance web rendering platform to serve product pages
- Enhancing the overall GoDaddy Telemetry to help track the user actions and activities across the site
- Collaborate with the engineering teams to help drive consistency in web rendering decisions
- Develop Code Governance & Contribution guidelines
- Helped drive new component development and standardization
- Brought the latest tech standards using open-source tools for code parity and standards across the organization
- Designed and helped drive front-end architecture across multiple teams
- Focussed on the latest a11y standards and helped scale the product with a11y requirements
- Developed themes/intents placements to drive the same components for multi-brand usages
- Collaborated with the design team to help drive consistency in design decisions
- Developed Code Governance & Contribution guidelines
- Helped develop and document best engineering practices and design decisions
Technologies:
React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Webpack, Storybook, Node, C#, .Net Framework, CI/CD, Jenkins, Akamai, HAProxy, Envoy Proxy, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitHub Actions, ESSP
Key Focus:
Product Development Roadmap, Web Rendering, Web Performance, Web Telemetry, RUM Telemetry, UI/UX, Design Consistency, Accessibility, Code Governance, SSR, CSR, SEO, SEM, EDGE, Global Routing, REST APIs, A/B Tests, CMS
Software Engineer at Tripadvisor
September 2015 - May 2020
- Engineer for Tripadvisor Platform
- Advocated and helped teams modernize their front-end codebase
- Implemented new UI components with a focus on modularity, reusability, and scalability
- Designed and helped drive front-end architecture across multiple teams
- Worked closely with front-end engineers across different products and teams
- Collaborated with the design team to help drive consistency in design decisions
- Helped develop and document best engineering practices and design decisions
- Worked closely with the brand team to place their marketing placements, lander pages
- Helped enhance Internal Headless CMS Platform
- Key contributor to the Tripadvisor Rebrand/Redesign Projects
- Participated in design decisions and peer code reviews
- Developed and maintained CI/CD
- Introduced better coding standards and practices
Technologies:
React.js, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript, Gulp, Bootstrap, Foundation, PostgresQL, Hive, Hive, Jenkins
Key Focus:
Web Technologies, UI/UX, Design Systems, Web Standardization, Web Rebranding, Placements, Landing Pages, SEM, A/B Tests
Photography: Ronak loves capturing moments through his lens. His picture collections include his travels, nature, architecture and at times tells life stories from his point of view. He regularly (tries to) post some of his memories on https://ronakjethwa.photos with a brief story around it.
Music: Find some of the soul music playlists Ronak listenes to (and takes a lot of time curating) on his Spotify profile.
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/ronak_jethwa/
GitHubhttps://github.com/ronakjethwa/
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ronakjethwa/
Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/ronakjethwa
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ronakjethwa/
Collection of the books that Ronak likes and recommends,
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
God Delusion
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World