Richa Khandelwal is an accomplished Engineering Manager with a strong background in full-stack development, specializing in Android, web, and backend technologies. Currently positioned at Coursera, her career has spanned across various leading tech companies and academic institutions. With a mission to build high-quality applications, her passion projects see her exploring and iterating to find the optimal full-stack architecture for product development.

Starting as an Android Application Engineer, she led the team in utilizing good architecture patterns leading to a bi-weekly release cycle while maintaining product quality. Her journey progressed as a Front-End ReactJS developer, where she led teams in revamping multiple SPA projects into server-side SPAs contributing to an eight-fold performance improvement. Her expertise in back-end engineering led her to multiple technical lead roles at Coursera, contributing to projects such as personalization, user data management, and SEO improvements. She has also worked with Amazon Lab126 and MapR Technologies in the past, leading and contributing to numerous feature developments using open-source tools such as Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and Hbase.

With an MS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz and a B.Tech in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Richa's in-depth academic background in computer science and her industry experience have positioned her as a valuable asset in driving product innovation.