Ruban Kandavanam, PhD

CTO

Toronto, Ontario, Canada20 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led the design of a credit trading platform.
  • Developed a patented recommendation engine.
  • Managed complex projects in e-commerce and fintech.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineer in E-commerce and Fintech with a strong focus on software development and project management.

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Web ServicesVisual StudioXMLEclipseC++SOAHTMLLinuxWindowsSDLCCSharePointSAPJMXJava

Experience

Amazon

3 roles

Engineering Leadership

Promoted

Feb 2020Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jul 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • I was responsible for designing the platforms for managing customer contact data for different marketplaces within Amazon.

Software Development Engineer

Oct 2015Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • I was responsible for the design and development of different components that make up the Financial Pipeline for Audible's audio book sales, that performs activities right from capturing contracts with publishers to the period end financial report generation for them. I was actively involved in automating different manual steps involved in the settlement of royalties for the publishers. Besides, I designed and built scheduling platforms to find the optimum schedules for customer service associates. I also designed and built a real time federated data management system for customer service associates management data.

Groupon

Software Engineer

Sep 2013Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Palo Alto, CA, USA

  • I was responsible for the design and engineering of the recommendation engine that recommends self descriptive contents in the form of language texts, images and optimum discount percent for the merchants to create deals as a self service. It reduced the time taken to create a deal from nearly a month to two days. I also won the highest number of votes for the application I built at the hackathon which was also patented as "Visual Merchant Locator".

Citi

Intermediate Programmer Analyst

Aug 2012Sep 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mississauga

  • I designed an built the Credit Trading Platform which was the first online platform for credit trading. I also designed a high level language for the traders to customise trade matching rules to maximise the revenue for the bank. In addition, I also built a number of internal tools and data reconciliation applications.

Sheridan college

Professor (part-time) - Web Development - Java

Jul 2012Dec 2012 · 5 mos · Brampton, Ontario

  • I taught Web-development using Java and related technologies such as J2EE, JSP, Servlets, HTML, XML, Javascript, CSS, MySQL, JDBC, Tomcat, Eclipse, Maven etc. for a semester. Solely responsible for lectures, conducting exams and evaluations.

Xtreme labs inc.

Mobile Developer

Feb 2012Jun 2012 · 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • I was responsible for the development of the most visited Web Portal in Canada. Besides, I was also responsible for the mobile application that provides the real time line up at different cafeteria in the campus for students.

Creo360

Product Manager

Jul 2011Feb 2012 · 7 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • I worked as the product manager for two projects where one is a CRM application for car dealers and the other is a Rental Management Software for Car rentals. I was responsible for shaping the project based on the requirements gathered from the clients in North America and driving the direction of the development by the engineering team in Sri Lanka.

University of ottawa

Post Doctoral Fellow

Jan 2011Jun 2011 · 5 mos

  • Lead the project titled Autonomic Management of Overlay networks in mobile and wireless networks for efficient multimedia delivery, funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in partnership with Nortel. My work involved designing and implementing the network architecture to support multimedia delivery using overlays where there is node mobility, monitoring the Quality of Experience of videos delivered in IPTV networks, dynamic generation of overlay networks for heterogeneous networks with mobility and optimal fair resource allocation for different services. This work resulted in a few research publications.

Tssg

Ph.D Candidate

Nov 2006Dec 2010 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Waterford, Ireland

  • Carried out research work towards Autonomic Management of Communication Networks and Services (AMCNS) initiative and Federated Autonomic Management of End-to-end networks (FAME) initiative that led to the successful defense of my doctoral thesis. I carried out research work on Video-on-Demand delivery in IPTV networks. Invented new algorithms for video placement, multicast, video popularity distribution and video segmentation that resulted in a number of international journals and conferences besides the software components of optimisation frameworks.

Computer systems limited

Application Designer & Developer

Jun 2005Oct 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • I was part of the R & D team where I designed and built web based applications and SAP interfaces. I was also responsible for training interns.

Education

South East Technological University

PhD — Network Management

Jan 2006Jan 2010

National Institute of Technology Calicut

B. Tech (first class) — Computer Science and Engineering Department

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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