Hi, I am Princiya

I 💙 food and JavaScript!

I am a skilled programmer with strong communication skills and 12+ years of experience building full-stack web & mobile apps, implementing CI/CD solutions and supporting infrastructures, including 3+ years of experience leading technical teams at scale.

• Work

  I work for Curalie GmbH, Berlin as Head of Frontend Engineering. I have been in the web development field for 12+ years. During this tenure, I have had the exposure to deal with full-stack web and mobile app development including dev-ops work, UX tasks and mentoring team members. I also have exposure to working with IoT, VR/AR, Data visualizations and Machine Learning.

  I am also a Software Developer coach at Raise.dev where I coach undergraduates in contributing to opensource, offer them career advice, and prepare them into getting internships or full-time jobs in Software Engineering.

• Opensource

  I contribute to open-source and maintain Lightbeam which is a browser extension to visualize first and third-party trackers.

  I have also served as a community maintainer to the Firefox dev tools debugger project.

  I also mentor opensource contributors to popular opensource repositories like React Native core, AWS Amplify, Slate.js.

• Community

  Before the covid pandemic, I volunteered my time in co-organizing the Berlin critical tech meetup, curating diversity scholarship applications for JSConfEU and React India conferences and co-hosting the bi-weekly D&I community & contributor calls.

  I have also participated in the mentorship program for the Node.js Diagnostics working group and Open Source Maintainer Leadership program from Mozilla.

• Skills

  React, React Native, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, Webpack, Docker, AWS, CI/CD, DevOps, Test automation, Data visualisations

  Empathetic leadership and strong communication

  Translate tech jargon into meaningful cartoons