me

Senior Software Engineer

I'm a Software Engineer with 2 years of experience. Currently, I am working with Nodejs. I have worked with Grovvy on grails & Python. I like GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, open source philosophy, knowledge sharing, finding innovative solutions, continuous improvement, building better software. I am also a co-author of a basic Book based on Django Framework.

Ratan Kumar

+91-8892572775
blog.ratankumar.org
Bangalore, India
mail@ratankumar.org
Skills
  • Grails
  • Python
  • Django
  • Google App Engine
  • Databases
  • c/c++
  • Data Structures
  • NodeJs
  • AngularJs
  • Operating Systems
Education
  • School of Engineering
    AUG 2009 - JUNE 2013
    Cochin University of Scinece & Tech.

    Graduated in Computer Science & Engineering . This four years has been most important part of my life, experiences like wining Hackathons, co-organising web designing event “design.com” in Dhishna-2011, Robotics, Linix & Python Workshops helped me to become a person who loves solving challenging problems to make life simpler.

    CUSAT : 70.18 %
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya
    APR 2006 - MAY 2008
    R.K. Puram sec. 4, NEW DELHI

    Higher School was full of Academics and fun. First glance of Physics was fascinating, Chemistry has never been an easy subject for me, But Maths has always been my favourite.I went to the president's house met then president APJ Abdul Kalam, and attending sunita williams's conference in American center was also one of the best learning experince i ever had.

    CBSE BOARD : 74 %
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya
    AUG 2005 - MAY 2006
    Bettiah,Bihar

    I was the Smartest with computer there. Good with Studies and Champion of School in Badminton. Geometry was my favorite thing to solve. formulated my own theorems with playing around it.

    CBSE BOARD : 82.8 %
Work Experience
  • Tracxn!
    AUG 2013 - APR 2015
    SOFTWARE ENGINEER

    Being part of the core team, I have majorly contributed in the development of core Product Platform of the Company. Python for the initial scraping work such as building cron scrappers to crawl millions of page daily and then performing cleaning and analysis on them.

    • Contributed in the extension of Search Product build on ElasticSearch
    • Independently build first Product of the company using AngularJS
    • Designed Homepage – tracxn.com
    • Designed Main Client facing views – grails framework.
    • Designed URL based navigation for the filter and sort. - Jquery
    • Designed Marketing Dashboard - For sending various Email.
  • Profoundis
    DEC 2012 - AUG 2013
    PRODUCT ENGINEER

    Profoundis is an awesome place to work, and entrepreneurs like arjun,jofin,anoop and nithin, I got the best mentors I could possibly imagine. Work is fun and full of challenges, from tasks like building a scraper to mine a million pages at backend, to contribution in production code it's an awesome journey for a programmer's life.

    • Developed a plugin for Shopify App Store
    • As an Intern worked on International Project based on services
    • Currently working with a mass communication and collaboration system
    • Built a scraper to scrap millons of webpages to generate structured data
Employment TimeLine
  • Senior Software Engineer
  • Software Engineer
  • Intern + Product Engineer
  • 2012 DEC
  • 2013 JAN
  • 2013 MAY
  • 2013 AUG
  • 2014 DEC
  • 2015 APR
  • 2015 NOW
Awards
  • 1st Prize in Hackathon (conducted by IITK)

    For Developing a Platfrom CoreDev where Developers get connected based of their domain. prize money worth INR 50,000.

  • Technical Excellence Memento

    For Developing the SMS extension for Association of Computer Engineering Students (ACES), CUSAT by principal.

  • Developer of the Month

    by INOZZ App. (55444.in) , for Creating 4 SMS apps during an HACKATHON (36 hour event) organized at Startup Village ,Kochi

Interests
  • Huge movie fan (action / adventure)
  • Play Badminton Off days
  • GAMES - Ages of Empire as fav.
  • Travel enthusiast - listed places to visit before I die.
Projects
  • WAIS - live
    2010
    PHP + MYSQL

    Aimed at managing a developed website ,and adding extension to it such as SMS feature ,mobile version of site , group mail etc . exposed to post software development analysis which exclusively uses code reading.

  • Smart Campus
    2011
    Android App

    Platform for students where they can access all useful information right in their hand held android device such as academic info, faculty finder , second hand selling.

  • WebRec - DATA MINING
    2013
    JAVA + Google App Engine

    Prediction of the surfing behavior of INTERNET user. Making recommendations on the basis of the web usage of user is the major goal of the project..

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