Bakthavatchalam. G
A/1, Anna street,
New Perungalathur,
Chennai - 600063
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About Me
Lead Python Developer/Technical Lead
Passionate, result-oriented software programmer with 8+ years’ experience leading and working in product development companies across multiple domains like financial, networking etc. Lead multiple successful projects starting from requirement gathering, requirement analysis, requirement documentation, resource planning, time and cost estimations, solution designing, people management and release management. Possess hands-on experience on wide-variety of tools and technologies throughout my career. Prioritized and managed multiple projects within scope and time constraints.
Skills include:
Project Estimation
Release Management
Requirements Gathering & Analysis
Team Leadership
Solution Design
Talent Acquisition
Resource Management
Agile / Scrum Methodologies
Hardcore Development, Troubleshooting & Debugging
Core Competencies
Lead Python Developer (past 8 yrs in product development companies)
Passionate and skillful developer with high level of expertise in Python langauge and its related tools.
Experience in different areas like Web Development, API Development, Front End Design, Web Services, Automation Scripting, Databases including NoSQL.
Experience in performance tuning and optimization
Experience in advanced practices like TDD and BDD.
Experience in building automated unit test suites.
Experience in incorporating few design patterns within the project scope.
Experience in team handling and mentorship.
Experience in Agile methodologies.
Experience in building and maintaining Continuous Integration pipelines.
Experience in tools like AWS, ServiceNow, GIT, SVN, Eclipse, PyCharm, Sublime, BugZilla, JIRA, Redmine, Amazon Alexa etc.
Project Schedule/Release Management (past 1.5 years)
Hands on project scheduling, tracking and release management experience on various projects.
Good knowledge and experience on Software development methodologies and test processes.
Good knowledge of software testing cycles – Functional, Regression, Acceptance.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
Anna University, Chennai, India
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Work Experience
Jun 2016 – Till Date: As Technical Lead/Lead Python Developer in AppViewX Inc, Coimbatore
July 2014 – May 2016: As Analyst – Apps Programmer in BA Continuum India Pvt Ltd, Chennai.
Jun 2013 – Jun 2014: As Analyst – Apps Programmer in Helios & Matheson India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai.
Oct 2009 – May 2013: As Senior Software Engineer in Gain Credit Inc (formerly known as Global Analytics), Chennai.
Software Exposure
Software Development:
Languages Java/J2EE, Python, Javascript
Frameworks and PlatformsFlask, Django, TDD, BDD, Unit Test, REST
User InterfacesHTML, CSS, jQuery, KnockoutJS
Data Representation/Exchange XML, JSON
Web Service ProtocolsREST, SOAP
DatabasesMySQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB
Operating SystemUnix/Linux, Windows
CI ToolsBuildbot, GIT, SVN
IDEsEclipse, PyCharm, Sublime
Change Management ToolsServiceNow, CA Service Desk Manager, JIRA, Redmine
ADC TechnologiesF5 LTM GTM, AVI
DNS TechnologiesInfoblox, Bluecat IPAM, BT Diamond
Clould TechnologiesAmazon Web Services
Firewall TechnologiesJuniper, Checkpoint
Security TechnologiesSSL Certificate/Key Life Cycle Management
Product / Project Details
Project – I
Title : AppViewX - Network Workflow Automation Suite– Plugin Development
Environment: Python, F5, Juniper, Citrix, ServiceNow, Infoblox, Bluecat
Company: AppViewX Inc
Description: AppViewX is a network infrastructure management suite that helps orchestrate and automate provisioning on top of the infrastructure by interacting with relevant tools.
Period: 18 months
Team Size: 20
Designation: Lead Python Developer
Role Played
Technical Lead/Lead Developer
Being able to explore and perform POC on wide variety of tools like F5, Juniper, Cisco, Infoblox, Bluecat network devices
Playing as a technical consultant with respect to automation in python
Participating in client requirement gathering discussions and demonstrations calls.
Project – II
Title : Diamond
Environment: Python, Flask, jQuery, Knockout, SQLAlchemy, MS SQL Server
Client Name : Bank of America
Description: Diamond is part of the Global Market Risk Technology at Bank of America. It helps in managing and mitigating risks that may occur because of various models employed at various lines in the bank. It is a workflow tool which helps in managing the lifecycle of various statistical models , their approval, their signoffs from stakeholders and finally their deployment at the bank. It helps in calibrating each model and assign a potential risk score based on its operating line of business.
Period: 3 years
Team Size: 6
Designation: Analyst – Apps Programmer
Role Played
Full Stack developer working with Python, MSSQL, Javascript, ORM etc
Working in an agile environment and following best practices including test driven development
Created a test suite useful for unit testing of sql alchemy mapping classes
Implemented reporting component for the application
Attending requirement gathering calls, discuss ,get clarified about the requirements.
Project – III
Title: Underwriting Engine v 1.0
Environment: Web service, Python, Mod_Python, MySql 5.1
Client Name : Lending Stream LLC
Company: Global Analytics
Description: Designing and developing a credit rating engine for online payday lending business in UK. Identifying customer application variables, real time analysing of credit reports from third-party data bureau like Experian, running through past loan performances of the customer and generating profile scores, analysing the repayment patterns and generating risk scores.
Period: 2 years
Team Size: 10
Designation: Software Engineer
Role played
Involved in the initial discussions with the product stakeholders to understand the requirement and converting them into technical requirement specification document.
Was involved in a series of database design and data flow management meetings.
Worked in a group of 5 people towards delivering the project
Unit testing, Staging and Production deployment
Project – IV
Title: Fraud Pattern Detection Service.
Environment: SOAP Web service, Python, Mod_Python, MySql 5.1
Client Name : LendingStream LLC/ Zebit LLC
Company: Global Analytics
Description: Closely interacting with Fraud management team and identifying cases of potential frauds by analyzing the applicants data. For example, sample rules can be, restricting multiple loan applications from same geographical area, restricting multiple loan applications using the same bank account number, customers behaviour on the website etc. Designing and developing a web service which accepts customers fraud-sensitive information and running through various fraud rules and models and decisioning the current loan application.
Period: 6 months
Team Size: 2
Designation: Senior Software Engineer
Role played
Understanding the Business Requirements Specification (BRS).
Created a generic SOA layer for any such services of its kind
Closely emulated a SOAP library without any WSDL specification, but with simple configuration files.
Helped in identifying potential rules that could possible detect suspicious customers.
Implented fraud models as per the model specification document.
Project – V
Title: Card Intelligence Service
Environment: Web service, Python, Mod_WSGI, MySql 5.1
Client Name : Lending Stream LLC
Company: Global Analytics
Description : Designing and developing a wrapper service for already existing components of LendingStream’s card payment model. This service provides a layer of abstraction for the clients in terms of usability, performance and scalability. Developed a generic XML schema to wrap previously used multiple API calls for independent components to single API call and the wrapper will internally take care of doing card authorizing/payment related tasks.
Period: 6 months
Team Size: 3
Designation: Senior Software Engineer
Role played
Understanding the Business Requirements Specification (BRS).
Creating a Test suite using Nose test
Involved in implementing a higher level API that ultimately scraped the need for multiple pings and drastically increased the throughput.
Project – VI
Title : Cricket Mobile powered by Zebit
Environment: Python, MySQL, SOAP
Client Name : Zebit LLC
Description: This is kind of fusion between eCommerce model and lending model. Zebit LLC tied up with Cricket Wireless to extend its lending platform and give mobile phone buyers an option to buy mobile phones/plans with its flexible repayment model provided at a very low APR. Understanding Cricket’s existing mobile phone business model, developing customer identification logic from dumps of historical raw data given by Cricket, integrating with third-party data bureaus, performing SSN Validations using existing data.
Period: 6 months
Team Size: 6
Designation: Senior Software Engineer
Role Played
Lead a micro team of 4 people
Senior Developer
Coordinating with various stakeholder teams and closely assisted the team on project completion.
Personal Interests
Music, Sports and Self study towards various technology development
Personal Details
Birthday / Age:
Gender:
September, 1988 / 29 yrs as on 2017
Male
Marital Status:
Nationality:
Married
Indian
Languages:
English, Tamil, Telugu
