Raj Ganesh

raj ganesh -- SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE 11+ years design, lead and development of applications using python and other technologies. EDUCATION M.Tech. in Infrastructure from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras(IITM), Chennai COMPUTER SKILLS Programming/Languages: Python (professional), javascript, java (academic), c++ (academic) Web framework : Django, Angularjs Databases: PostgreSQL , MySQL, PostGIS, Cassandra Software tools/frameworks: Bootstrap, Django REST framework, Django-piston, html5, AWS Operating Systems: Linux ( Ubuntu, Debian), other real time Operating Systems RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Consultant, Meanwise, Python/Django, August 2016 – present Design , Develop back end apis using django rest framework, and integrate with other third party services for amazon push notification, media content handling etc Consultant, Delighterr, Python/Django , August 2015 – August 2016 Design , Develop back end apis/features using django rest framework, and integrate with other third party services for sms, automation etc. Consultant, Class 5 Trading Company, CA, USA- Python/Django , April 2015 – Dec 2015 Architect, Design , Develop app to process returning of samples by sales representatives. Consultant, Knugget Labs, CA, USA- Python/Django , December 2013 – April 2015 Architect, Design , Develop Health care related data and communication interface, APIs, for health care app. Expose resources via API, using tastypie and also real time push notification using websockets, and building standalone python scripts/engines to generate statistical data. Consultant, Carnegie Learning, PA, USA – Angularjs, Html5, February 2014 – October-2014 Design, Develop custom Widgets, Tools, User Interface for on line math learning. Consultant, ntology – November 2012 – Html5, Python/Django, November 2013 Architect , Design, develop multiple web and mobile applications, primarily Python/Django based and html5. including – whatwentdown.com. Consultant, bigbasket, India– bigbasket.com – Python/Django, July2011 – October 2012 Application maintenance and enhancements, including adding geo reference to existing logistics and intelligence to various logistics/retail report generation. Consultant, rawjam, UK– bigartmob.com – Python/Django, July2011 Present Designed and developed API for theirs application using django-piston. Application maintenance and feature addition. Consultant, StenoCentral, CA , USA– StenoCentral.com – Python/Django, July2010 - July2011 Designed and developed hot sync application that connects to RB8 database and updates StenoCentral server with job updates. Feature addition, maintenance of StenoCentral.com Consultant-Architect/Lead, Span Across Pvt. Ltd. taxspanner.com, Bangalore, jan2009-June2010 Design , lead and develop pluggable, various service request handling framework using python, django. Study-research on scaling of their current web application. Consultant-Developer, wave accounting, toronto, september-december 2009 Designed and developed multiple applications in python/django Consultant-technical lead, Tarams Software Technologies , tarams.com, Jan 2008 – dec 2008 Technical design, lead for creating web application using python/django. a human resource tool. Consultant-Developer, Span Across Pvt. Ltd. taxspanner.com, Bangalore, April – Dec 2007 Designed and developed ,Framework for xml generation , PDF generation using python.Framework for database migration, backup and restoration in django, for postgreSQL-8.1, using python. Researcher-Consultant, SRIJAN Technologies, Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, April 2006 – March 2007 Worked/researched on varied projects using various technologies, mostly open source. Researcher-Developer, Servelots Infotech Ltd., Bangalore, July 2005 – March 2006 Researched, designed, and developed Open source mapping web application using MapServer(python). Sarai, Delhi , Jan 2005 – June 2005 SELECTED Researcher-Developer(Fellowship), ACCOMPLISHMENTS Gave talk on GIS – means to store, visualize and process Data, at Conf. FOSS.IN, Bangalore Gave talk on Open source GIS, at ILUG Delhi.