Nov 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 6 mos · Remote

• Toptal is a premium network of freelance software engineers and designers all over the world.
• I work with clients as a full stack engineer through Toptal.
• My tools are - Ruby, Python, and Javascript (and MVC frameworks in these languages).

Dec 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Worked on couple of startup ideas, built some prototypes using Ruby on Rails, Python, and EmberJS
• Did some consulting on architecture/db design and tech stack for few startups in India.
• Major work with some startups is mentioned below.
• Lead Developer - Plancess EduSolutions
• I helped build the online assessment platform of Plancess, PrepLane (http://www.preplane.com/), from ideation to architecting and eventually developing it.
• Designed the database architecture for the online test preparation platform.
• Built an analytics engine for extracting meaningful insights from test answers for prospective college applicants.
• Built a custom test generator to create personalized tests from syllabi specified by users.
• Built REST APIs in Django to deliver test data and progressively consume answer data from web client built on Angular.
• Set up background jobs and calculation engines for the results of test attempts and overall dashboard of users.
• Built a primitive recommendation engine for users based on syllabus, difficulty level, user performance, etc., in previously attempted tests.
• Set up OAuth2 authentication, FB, and G+ social auth for a web client over REST API.
• Coordinated with a remote front-end team and ensured code quality by doing their code reviews.
• Senior Developer - HikeEzee
• Full Stack Engineer.
• Hike Ezee provides end-to-end automated trip planning solution for travel in southern indian states.
• I worked on optimizing and generalizing the transport options calculator in the trip planner.
• Stack used was Ruby on Rails, Backbone JS and PostgreSQL

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Full stack engineer responsible for development of Chronus Mentor, a mentoring and talent development software using Ruby on Rails, jQuery, AngularJS, MySQL etc.
• Some projects I have worked on:
• Performance and scaling team:
• o Responsibilities as a team involved improving page load performance and scaling the application for 100k users
• o Improvements involved doing architecture changes, UX and workflow changes, optimizing queries, removing n+1 queries, eager-loading associations, benchmarking, using background tasks etc.
• o Set up New Relic monitoring and instrumentation for continuous integrated performance management
• Customer Success Engineering team:
• o Assisting new customers in onboarding and setting up the product. Importing customer data and setting up continuous feed import. Setting up authentications, e.g., OAuth, SAML.
• o Generalized and automated data import process to enable Account Managers to validate it before contacting engineering team which accelerated the overall process and saved round trips.
• Misc. daily tasks, responsibilities and other things:
• o Agile development using scrum. Sprints, RCA, retrospections, onboarding and mentoring juniors, peer code-reviews, ADA accessibility compliance, TDD, BDD, cross-browser testing (IE), Continuous Integration using Solano CI, deployments, OKR, git etc.

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Lexity (now Yahoo Commerce Central) builds apps for e-commerce platforms.
• Did data analysis for their retargeting app to facilitate retention and customer engagement for long term and for product improvements.
• Involved Python and MySQL scripting

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Summary:
• Work involved learning RoR, exploring MVC framework and building small features in Claritics Analytics Suite, a set of analytic tools for multi-platform social apps.
• Details:
• Front End UI/UX Engineer
• Analyzed Claritics Analytics Suite (CAS) for UI/UX pitfalls and proposed new UI designs using Adobe Fireworks
• Initiated the development of completely revamped new UI of the product using responsive design approach and fluid proportion-based grids
• Detected and resolved cross-platform cross-browser styling issues in CAS
• Improved user engagement on the company's website by remodeling its content structure and incorporating key design changes in the wordpress CMS
• Ruby on Rails Developer
• Developed an interactive data visualization tool for CAS using world map on top of traditional tools like charts and tables for country-level data
• Significantly reduced asynchronous ajax requests while displaying multiple visualizations of same query in CAS by building a client side data storage and reuse system
• Implemented a central automated site wide announcement system in CAS to convey information and updates to clients

Apr 2011 – Mar 2012 · 11 mos · IIT Bombay

• Led a two-tier team promoting alumni-student interaction, Headed Publicity and Design department
• Publicized and conducted events and initiatives of SARC - Phonathon, Alumni Student Mentorship Program, Alumni Interactive Sessions and Reunions
• Conceptualized and organized first ever Student Alumni Meet (SAM) of IIT Bombay
• Implemented door-to-door publicity campaign resulting footfall of more than 1000 students
• Coordinated with IITB Alumni Association for publicity and organization of Silver Jubilee Reunion, Batch of 1986 and Institute Alumni Day 2011

Apr 2010 – Jan 2011 · 9 mos · IIT Bombay

• Designed high impact outdoor publicity material for hoardings, and the notice boards of different schools and colleges.
• Coordinated with team of designers to develop publicity materials for more than 20 events.