Feb 2022 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Collaborated on Agile development with a team to enhance features for a rapidly evolving product using Python 3.x, JavaScript (ES6+), and HTML5. Designed and implemented RESTful APIs with Python Flask, leveraging API-first development principles, and documented everything with JIRA and Confluence.
• Architected custom Jenkins pipelines to optimize development workflows and implement CI/CD, integrating Git version control and Makefile build automation to generate multiple artifacts concurrently.
• Designed and developed a scalable microservices-based system to asynchronously distribute XML configurations to numerous devices, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. Maintained detailed audit logs using a relational database (MySQL) and SQLAlchemy ORM.
• Led the development of an automated PyTest-based testing framework, ensuring unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing coverage. Successfully migrated legacy Python 2.x code to Python 3.x, ensuring compliance with PEP 8 coding standards.
• Developed and optimized a software packaging solution using Python automation and shell scripting, resulting in a 75% reduction in installation times (from 60+ minutes to under 20 minutes).
• Maintained and enhanced an automated testing framework involving VM provisioning and management on VMWare ESXi using command-line utility, ensuring test environment consistency and reliability.

Mar 2021 – May 2021 · 2 mos · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Conducted a 40 hour Python and Django workshop for 180+ Grad level students. Prepared assignments, quizzes and held doubt sessions for the same as well.
• Was invited to conduct the workshop again the next semester following multiple positive reviews

Sep 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Delhi, India

• Working to develop a full-fledged ERP system using an Open source framework
• Designed and developed multiple RESTful API services utilizing ORMs interacting with Relational database
• Familiarised myself with CI/CD concepts used for deployment in Dev and Prod servers in AWS and Alibaba Cloud
• Got to work in a startup environment with fast-changing and many times ambiguous requirements with quick deadlines. Assist in estimation and tracking through daily meetings with business analysts and lead developers
• Worked in a Scrum based environment to develop multiple Canvas, Portal and Model driven apps using Microsoft Powerapps in Azure cloud environment and MS Flows using Microsoft Power Automate.
• Developed workflows using Logic Apps and Azure Functions utilizing serverless compute in Azure.
• Handled backend operations by creating custom connectors for API calls using Postman and tested for maximum throughput.

Apr 2017 – Oct 2017 · 6 mos · Bengaluru

• ◦ Designed and built neural nets to classify texts from Twitter into ’Rumors’ and ’Not Rumors’ using TensorFlow and NeuralNet.
• ◦ Scraped required data from online sources and applied feature selection techniques like feature importance and correlation matrix to eliminate redundant features.
• ◦ Generated sentiment score for tweets using Natural Language Toolkit to be fed to neural nets. Conducted research and literature surveys for improving efficiency of rumor detection.
• ◦ Work published in Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing.