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Sandeep Kumar

Experience

  • 9 years of experience in IT.
  • A very rich experience in web development based on Ruby on Rails.
  • Rich experience with server management and maintenance of cloud infrastructure.
  • Handling client communication through various mediums.
  • Good knowledge of Javascript, CSS, and REST.
  • Testing experience in with Rspec and Minitest.
  • Excellent problem solving with good interpersonal skills
  • Expertise with version control systems.
  • Expertise in caching and website performance.
  • Published couple of ruby gems.

Technical Skills

Operating System Linux, MacOS
Language Ruby, Javascript, Python
interested in: Go & Elixir
DBMS RDBMS (mysql, postgresql), NoSQL(MongoDB, Redis)
Project Management Tools Pivotal Tracker, JIRA, Basecamp, Trello, Github
Testing Tools Rspec, Minitest, Capybara
Devops Chef, vagrant, vagrantAWS
Webframeworks ROR, Sinatra, Trailblazer, nodejs

Professional Experience

Hike Messanger (http://get.hike.in/)

Specialist/Lead (Jun 2014 - Present)

Hoppr (www.hoppr.com)

Lead Developer (Mar 2013 - Jun 2014)
  • Hoppr is a web merchant loyalty portal, the SMS and USSD service, the android app and the mobile web.
  • Hoppr as a web loyalty portal, helps 500+ merchants working with us engaged with their patrons.
  • with 7.6 m users hoppr platform was handling around 600k checkins and 3m+ events per day.
  • Hoppr is a hybrid application consists of 10+ Rails, sinatra, php, java & node applications to work together and serve as one.
  • Mentoring of junior developers, helping them to understand the architecture.
  • Handling server management and cloud infrastructure maintenance (AWS/OpenVZ)

Sapna Solutions aka Evoleas (www.evoleas.com)

Senior Developer (Mar 2009 – Feb 2013)
  • Developed 8 rails and mobile projects.
  • Handle client communication via different channels.
  • Part of interview panel in sapna solutions.
  • Integral part of code quality review panel for improving the overall code quality.
  • Team management is 3-4 projects.
  • Mentor junior developers to grow & understand rails & web development.
  • Understanding requirements, documentation, architecture design and development, unit testing, deployment.
  • Integrated SEO and site-map.
  • Integrated Memcache & Search engine with filters.
  • Website optimization with ySlow and PageSpeed.
  • PSD analysis and conversion with Image Magick.

Azri Solutions (http://www.azrisolutions.com)

Application Developer(Aug2008–Feb 2009)
  • Manage client project named One Simple Move (www.onesimplemove.com)
  • Lead team of 3 developers for completion on the project.
  • Analysis of client requirements.
  • Actively involved in architect, defining iterations & goals.
  • Followed TDD during development, used Rspec & Mocha

Impetus Infotech. (www.impetus.com)

Software Engineer 1.x (Jan 2007-July 2008)
  • worked on 5 projects in ruby on rails.
  • Implemented a web based version of Planning Poker Tool with rails.
  • Understanding requirements, Documentation, Architecture design and Development and Unit testing.
  • Integral part of R&D department, impetus for doing research on latest trends & technologies.
  • Actively involved in design and coding.
  • Followed TDD during development of most of the projects.
  • Worked on a continuous build system (rBuild) for implementation of an application server, recently known as WebRoar.

Extra Curricular Activities

  • Student coordinator of Information Technologies (IT) branch for training and placement in YMCA college.
  • Leader of the team, which prepared stage in annual cultural festival.

Hobbies

  • Debugging & logic building.
  • Puzzle solving.
  • Playing cricket & swimming.
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