Simi Ambikakumari Nagappan Nair

Simi Nagappan Nair Principal Software Engineer Technically proficient and analytically astute professional with 16 Years of extensive hands-on experience in software engineering, full-stack product development, team mentoring & prompt solution delivery. -- Dubai, United Arab Emirates linkedin.com/in/simi-pradeep SKILLS OVERVIEW Front End React, Redux, Next.js, Jotai, Angular, RxJs, Ember.js, Riot.js, JSP, Servlets, JSF, Struts Back End Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Node, NestJS, Python, Flask, Elixir, Microservices, GraphQL Data & Analytics Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, Mongo, ElasticSearch, Splunk UI/UX HTML, CSS, SCSS, Bootstrap, Material UI, Flex-Layout, Photoshop Enterprise Tools Kafka, IBM MQ, Redis, Camunda Virtualization Docker, Kubernetes AI Technologies OpenCV, Tesseract, Augmented Reality Cloud/DevOps AWS, Jenkins, Codefresh, Git, GitHub, GitLab Testing TDD, JUnit, Lean FT, Cypress, Mocha, Jest Game Engine Unity 3D WORK EXPERIENCE Principal Software Engineer Bread Finance, US (Via Andela Talent Network) 08/2021 - Present, USA (Remote from Dubai, UAE) Key Highlights Architected and led the implementation of a new unified quality feed portal with sophisticated integration adaptors for CI/CD platforms and work managements tools like JIRA. This platform outperforms many market players in terms of functionalities, performance, user experience and integration capabilities. Implemented end-to-end automated release management workflow process using JIRA and Codefresh (includes development of custom JIRA app with seamless Slack integration). This drastically improved the efficiency of production release process with increase in release frequency from 1 to 3 in a week. Led the test automation activities of the Bread ecommerce platform integration and Bread personal loan implementation using Cypress and K6. Implemented multiple CI/CD Codefresh pipelines for service deployments, pre and post deployment validations. Responsible for refactoring and re-architecting the QA automation platform and setting the architectural guidelines for the team. Principal Software Engineer Emaratech FZ LLC 02/2017 - 07/2021, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Key Highlights Principal Engineer responsible to architect, develop & deliver the new generation immigration platform for Dubai Airports & borders, with an achieved clearance threshold of 10 seconds per passenger, handling more than 150,000 to 200,000 passengers a day. Currently leading the end-to-end re-engineering & development of Visa Issuance System for Dubai Immigration. This includes the inhouse development of the passport MRZ & face Image extraction module, with 93% of accuracy(comparable to leading market players) yielding a cost saving of more than 1million dollars. Created a platform-agnostic & automated ticket generation plugin for JIRA, which is integrated with all Emaratech web applications. This gained operational efficiency to free 6 support engineers (reskilled to other positions) & improved turnaround time for service ticket allocation from hours to few minutes. Architected 6 key systems for Emaratech that are successfully running in production environment. Provide architectural & design training, code workshops, mentorship & guidance to peer team members in Emaratech. Page 1 of 2 WORK EXPERIENCE Senior R&D Engineer Emaratech FZ LLC 03/2012 - 01/2017, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Key Highlights Delivered EduPad - an augmented-reality-based mobile learning platform. Product showcased in Dubai GITEX Technology Week, gaining media attention & eventually visited by HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai. Lead researcher and developer of Play@Work - a gamified platform to boost operational productivity of agents in customer service centers & call centers. Lead researcher to assess & conduct Proof Of Concept with Stanford Research Institute's (SRI) iris-scan-based passenger identification solution, which is currently employed in Smart Gates and Smart Corridor systems in Dubai airports. Software Engineer Emaratech FZ LLC 12/2007 - 09/2010, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Key Highlights Lead developer of smart channel system & e-Visa (an electronic Visa processing system) for the Dubai immigration department. Performed the key role in the design & development of e-Residence system for Dubai Naturalization & Residency Department. Software Engineer IBS Software Technologies 09/2005 - 11/2007, IBS Software is a leading technology product company in airline domain serving leading airlines across the globe. Thiruvananthapuram, India Key Highlights One of the initial developers of iCargo platform - a successful cargo management product from IBS deployed in 30+ leading airlines globally. Batch topper in fresh graduate training program conducted by IBS for the batch of 100+ new joinees. Top achiever (A grade) for the employee appraisals consecutively for 2 years. SIDE PROJECTS For Oylien Ltd. (U.K) Design and development of Oylien Ltd. website. https://www.oylien.com. Active involvement in the development of Oylien Collaboration Platform for Educational Institutions (Using ReactJS & GoLang deployed via Docker in Amazon Web Services). EDUCATION Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science) University of Kerala 04/2001 - 04/2005, Thiruvananthapuram, India HONORS & AWARDS Presidential Award NCC B Certificate Honourable President of India Bharat Scouts & Guides Organization, India National Cadet Corps, India Rajya Puraskar Honourable Governer of Kerala Bharat Scouts & Guides Organization, India Page 2 of 2