Sep 2025 – May 2026 · 8 mos

Aug 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Jun 2019 – May 2020 · 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Designed a detailed syllabus from the ground up to help students intuitively understand concepts, with emphasis on learning by doing (building expandable projects)
• For example - https://github.com/crampete/full_stack_classroom_july_2019
• Recorded online courses and took up classroom training as well
• Handled the Full Stack batches (JavaScript, Node.js, React, MongoDB, Python, Express), Git in addition to interview training
• Prepared customised action plans for interested students to help them towards their learning goals
• Provided continuous support and helped many students secure job offers. Helped quite a few transition from non-tech jobs to their first tech job

Jan 2019 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Worked on a platform to host and manage competitions amongst students. Students could submit and vote for videos. Used by 1000s of participants everyday at its peak
• a. Domain Driven Design - Services, Aggregates, Repositories, Events and more to ensure maintainable and clean code
• b. Built workflows for Video Processing. Enabled adaptive bitrates and segment based seeking across the product
• c. Contributed code and ideas to their open source framework
• d. Implemented Role Based Access Control. Also ensured backward compatibility using functional paradigms and a simple domain specific construct
• e. Worked towards a scalable solution with the target to accomodate millions of users
• f. Code and techniques to ensure greater consistency, coordination amongst background jobs and idempotency
• g. Elasticsearch - Faceted search, custom painless scripts, secondary database
• Developed and deployed a product for use by Instagram influencers. Complex integrations, caching, detailed analytics and scalable design.
• a. Integration with their Instagram accounts to import all media
• b. Database design for primary data and analytics. Scripts to move old data, substitute them with OLAP cubes
• c. Deployments using Kubernetes. Later transitioned to AWS Elastic Container Services
• d. Recurring payments, one time payments, multiple payment gateways
• e. Handling image resizing, CDNs and a host of other small services
• Udemy like website. Encrypted video encryption using VdoCipher to prevent users from downloading or recording the videos
• Multiple web scraping projects, small projects using Flask and few simple automations.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Worked on rule based text extraction and classification using simple Machine Learning techniques
• Language Vector Models, Bag of Words, Lucene and some deep learning
• Optimised Java FFI from Python to reduce app boot time and RAM usage
• Found arcane bugs and wrote a custom ".docx" parser to help with the same
• Deep dive into writing cumbersome rules and regular expressions for a temporal tagging library
• Full Stack Developer. Multiple FrontEnd apps using jQuery, Bootstrap, React, Server Rendered Views
• Flask, Django and Express.js for the BackEnd
• Scraped, wrote automation deploy scripts, deployed microservices using Docker

May 2017 – Sep 2017 · 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Microservices using Express.js and Sails.js. Unit tests for the same
• Python for web scraping, automation, onboarding physical devices etc
• Took ownership of building the backend for a Custom Relationship
• Management portal. Sole developer for the same
• Slack bot using Go. Alerts when a service goes down

Jul 2016 – Dec 2016 · 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Was mentored and assisted by all the kind folks there especially Shrayas.
• Built a testing framework which allowed testers to write test cases using a domain specific language (closer to English)
• a. Tests could be written in an editor (with error checking, syntax highlighting) built using WinForms
• b. Complex regular expressions, algorithms to parse, create ASTs for the same
• c. Background Celery workers execute the test cases. Dashboard for reporting as well
• Developed an analytics solution. Flask, Angular 1 and MongoDB for the dashboard. Collected and collated data using cron jobs
• Worked on their existing C# Angular MVC application. Fixed bugs and added new features

Dec 2015 – Dec 2015 · 0 mo · Chennai

• Interned here to fulfil my college work experience requirement. My work guide Mr. S. Sathya Narayanan provided me with the needed knowledge and support to complete the assigned tasks.
• Analysed and collated Futures and Options data from the last few years which was then to tinker with existing strategies.

Apr 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Chennai

• Started and maintained small Blogs. Returns were fluctuating and erratic.
• Used White Hat SEO and Social Media Marketing to get visitors. Analysed Keywords, Volume and Traffic. Ranked on Page 1 for many long tail keywords.
• Wrote 100 + posts.