Reeha Kolagani

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Reeha Kolagani

I'm a Frontend Engineer with 4+ years of experience building high-performance, scalable web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, GraphQL, React Native, Next.js, and Angular. Proven track record of improving user engagement (20%+) and reducing load times (30%) through performance optimization and modern UI architecture. Strong experience in state management, REST API integration, and responsive design within Agile environments.

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Education

Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Alabama at Birmingham (GPA: 4.0/4.0)
Aug 2023 - May 2025
Courses: Algorithms, DB Dev, Statistics, Database Systems

Technical Skills

  • React
  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • React Native
  • GraphQL
  • Angular
  • Bootstrap
  • Tailwind CSS

  • Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask)
  • Java (Spring and Spring Boot)
  • C

  • Redux
  • Context API

  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB

  • Jest
  • Chrome DevTools
  • React Testing Library

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Postman
  • Jenkins
  • Trello

Experience

  • Leading frontend development for TummyTales, a community-driven platform for pregnant women, architecting scalable and responsive UI components using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
  • Collaborate with designers and backend engineers to optimize user interaction flows and improve engagement across features.
  • Refactored component architecture and optimized rendering performance across 10+ application screens, reducing unnecessary re-renders and latency while improving responsiveness.
  • Technologies: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, React Router,React hooks, Chrome DevTools.

  • Engineered UI components for Voop, with real-time updates and detailed features, which improved user interaction by 20%.
  • Optimized performance, reducing page load time by 30% through code splitting, lazy loading and debouncing the API calls.
  • Integrated REST APIs for proposal management with 15% error reduction via enhanced exception handling and pagination.
  • Technologies: React, React Hooks, React Routing, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Postman, Bootstrap

  • Contributed to frontend development for State Bank of India’s YONO (You Only Need One) banking application using AngularJS and Java.
  • Integrated RESTful APIs to enable secure communication between frontend interfaces and backend banking services.
  • Assisted in debugging, testing, and improving UI performance through reusable component development and lazy loading techniques.
  • Worked within Agile teams to deliver incremental feature updates for a large-scale financial application.

  • Built single-page applications using React, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, reducing rendering time by 25% via optimization.
  • Designed reusable React components and integrated RESTful APIs, improving responsiveness and overall code maintainability.

Projects

Smart Web Annotator

React, Canvas API, Chrome Extension

Developed a Manifest V3 Chrome Extension using React and the HTML5 Canvas API to enable structured webpage annotation with layered rendering and PNG export.

Architected a state-driven annotation system with Undo/Redo stack management and Chrome storage integration, ensuring clean separation between rendering logic and application state in a Manifest V3 environment.

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QuickCart E-commerce Web App

React, Bootstrap, Pagination, Lazy Loading

Designed and built a fully responsive e-commerce web app with React and React Router, enabling users to browse, filter, and search products fetched dynamically from DummyJSON API with pagination and routing. Engineered real-time cart functionality including quantity updates, subtotal calculations, and a checkout process using React hooks and component state, enhancing shopping flow and reducing UI friction and styled with bootstrap and SEO-friendly HTML tags.

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Weather App

React, Bootstrap, Axios

Developed a responsive react weather application using the OpenWeatherMap API to fetch the real-time weather data. Enhanced UX with dynamic backgrounds that update based on weather conditions and intuitive icons for metrics like temperature, humidity, wind speed, visibility, and sunrise/sunset times. Used React hooks for state management & side effects. Implemented error handling and enhanced accessibility with ARIA labels and responsive layout and optimized API calls.

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Expense Tracker

JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Created a responsive expense tracker with CRUD functionality using vanilla JavaScript and DOM manipulation. Implemented local storage to persist user data across sessions, eliminating the need for backend dependencies. Designed a UI with dynamic table rendering, category filtering, and real-time total balance calculation. Added form validation and error handling for user inputs and styled with CSS3 for a clean, mobile-friendly layout (shadows, borders, and responsive grids).

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Resume Builder

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, html2pdf.js

Designed an interactive resume generator with real-time preview and PDF export functionality. Implemented drag-and drop reordering of resume sections for customizable layouts & designed Modern/Classic templates with responsive CSS grids. Integrated html2pdf.js to generate downloadable, print-friendly resumes.Added form validation and photo upload features.

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Quiz App

JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Simple quiz application with countdown timer and interactive UI.

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