SUMMARY

• Masters in Computer Engineering with 9+ yrs software development experience in professional environments;
• High potential skills in development/deployment of Desktop/Web applications using Python, SQL, Shell, HTML/CSS/JavaScript targeted for all three major platforms - Windows, OS X, Linux or the Cloud;
• Hands-on experience with Financial/Insurance software, GUI development, version controlling, CPU/GPU architectures, profiling and debugging in a test-driven environment; coding style is “less is more”.
• Proven abilities in math, problem-solving, documentation, algorithm design, and creative/analytical thinking;
• Working style is extreme passion, reasonable and accountable. Can work independently or in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Using Currently (Hot): Python, Git, AWS, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Ansible, HTML/CSS/JS;

Used Recently (Warm): Django/Flask, knockout.js, wxPython, Postgres, SQL Server, SVN, CVS;

Used a while ago (Lukewarm): OpenCV, Pyramid, Mercurial, SSL, C, CUDA, Perl, Oracle;

Developed stuff on: Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora), OS X 10.5+, Amazon EC2;

Played with: Quartz, Wing IDE, PyCharm, Eclipse, Visual Studio, nginx, Tornado and several other stuff.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Python Developer/Architect

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• There’s a bunch of data matching algorithms out there, but the one I created was original and custom tailored to verify and match the entity information coming from multiple sources.
• Introduced a brand new SQL Alchemy-based framework that integrates seamlessly into Bloomberg Application Service (BAS) layer. The framework support both ORM and non-ORM approaches to SQL. Very robust.
• Introduced a well-defined and configurable framework for business logic and data validation on the service layer - I called it the ‘Sentinel’. This was used to prevent any bad data or improper requests from entering your service layer. It was quite powerful.
• Introduced a novel way to process the service requests - it is called ‘Action Processing’. It allows you to process service layer requests based on a series of actions.
• Contributed, for about a month, to the design of entity resolution algorithms - also called the dedupe problem in popular circles.
• Worked with different teams on different deployment strategies for Python applications on Linux servers.
• Worked with Bloomberg custom packaging systems like BPKG and DPKG for deployable packaging of the python applications and libraries.

Tools and Libraries: Python, Git, BAS (Bloomberg Application Services), MySQL, sqlalchemy, Flask, Linux/Unix, Jenkins

Senior Python Developer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Built a very comprehensive auditing tool (in Python) to compare the results from two of their top in-house Analytical systems;
• Used Amazon S3 and Hadoop HDFS tools to create reports on file and content comparison;
• Created new ways to deploy python modules on secure file servers.

Tools and Libraries: Python, concurrency, gevent, Hadoop, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services - EC2, S3, Redshift

Senior Python Developer

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Responsibilities:

• Develop the Data Warehouse components like Universal Data Loader (UDL) to support data ingestion and edmigrate - a component to migrate all data in to the database for reporting purposes
• Monitor the core Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and deploy apps through various Dev-Ops tools on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Manage extensive inter-API communication through RabbitMQ messaging queue service
• Build test frameworks using Python-behave tool and automate them using Jenkins
• Design and architect the Ad Hoc Reporting and Analytics Package Design and Configuration system, using Pyramid/Flask/Django (each library/framework has it’s own pros/cons, so a little bit of everything was used)
• Contribute to the progress of the project by following agile methodology and the SCRUM process

Tools and Libraries: Python, Pyramid, behave, Ansible, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services - IAM, EC2, S3, unittest, Selenium, Postgres, SQLite, SQLAlchemy, Flask, Django, RabbitMQ

Senior Python Developer/Architect

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked from the inception of converting a Desktop based application to a web based application
• Designed and developed SQLAlchemy-based libraries to interact with SQL stored procedures and functions
• Responsible for the architecture of RESTful web service layer using Flask library routing mechanism
• Transitioned raw database calls to performance-oriented ORM calls
• Modeled the service layer data into separate classes as opposed to packing everything into ORM mappings
• Adhered to standards like PEP8, code decoupling, DRY principles and object oriented design
• Code complexity and code legibility given equal importance especially given the kind of flexibility Python offers
• Agile development through unit-testing and selenium testing using SQLite and Flask’s web testing framework
• Python decorator usage deserves a special mention because the application involved a lot of permissions, authentication and RESTful request pre-processing
• Developed custom error handling techniques for various segments of the application

Tools and Libraries: Python, Flask, Tornado, MagicMock, SQLAlchemy, unittest, Selenium, MSSQL, knockoutjs, jQuery, HTML/CSS, sammyjs, wtForms, SQLite

Senior Python Developer

Confidential Bloomfield, CT

Responsibilities:

• Django-centric agile development seated on a Amazon EC2 Red Hat and Debian servers
• Re-designed the Django service layer that talks to Oracle back-end
• Fixed a lot of issues with the ORM models to ensure data integrity for insurance products

Tools and Libraries: Python, Django, RHEL, Debian, Amazon Cloud, Oracle

Python Developer

Confidential, renton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created a Desktop software suite called the “Dashboard” from scratch - it mimics Django functionality
• Used wxPython heavily for widgets and features involved in creating a typical desktop application
• Enforced CRUD permissions using MySQL and presented them with the beautiful wxPython widgets

Tools and Libraries: Python, wxPython, Ubuntu, MySQL, PHP, HTML, AJAX

Software Engineer/Computer Analyst-II

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Video Viewer Application- Cross-platform Python GUI app to quick search for a particular video residing on remote samba servers, and enable the end-user to play the video remotely by creating local samba share;
• Mass Weighing Utility- Windows Python GUI app for animal mass weighing; talks to a digital balance using RS-232 or USB. Has many features like erroneous weight checking, automated animal detection;
• Automatic Performance Reporting System- Python-based GUI system to automate parsing of thousands of database records, capture anomalous results, generate excel reports and dispatch categorical emails;
• Cluster Computing- Harnessed the processing power of over 30 multi-core computers through cluster computing on MATLAB running on Windows, OSX and Unix/Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora) platforms, also called the MATLAB Distributed Computing Server (MDCS).

Software Developer

Confidential, Denton, TX

Responsibilities:

• Lead software developer of 'Quality Suite Colonoscopy software' used by Mayo Clinic, Rochester; marketed by the Endometric Corporation;
• Real-Time GPU Application: 25 fold speed up; Designed developed and tested an application using C and NVIDIA CUDA which uses the power of single/multiple Tesla GPUs for real-time computer-aided colonoscopy detection methods through binary image processing techniques. Built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008;
• Maintained Python/Django based web app which allows manipulation of experimental colonoscopy data records of several patients stored in MySQL and monitored using SVN on Ubuntu;
• First authored the following research paper - "Effective and Accelerated Informative Frame Filtering in Colonoscopy Videos using Graphic Processing Unit". BIOSIGNALS 2011 (Published).

Back-end Intranet Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Admin Management: Enforced Bank Employees ‘User Login’ Authentication with JavaScript, Django/Python, SSL and MySQL;
• Background Check: Checked authenticity of applicant’s profile using Perl-based searching of MySQL records;