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.
As an engineer, he likes bringing new ideas and engineering solutions to life through a data-driven, customer-centric lens, and loves collaborating with product managers, engineers, designers, and ux research on the holistic product build.
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/
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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