Nandhini Narasimhan

I am a full stack developer with experience across development, QA and release functions. I have strong technical and interpersonal skills gained through my varied roles in the tech industry. I am also the co-founder of womenhackfornonprofits,a tech community for women to build open source projects.

I am looking to work with a innovative team developing products for its customers with passion to write clean code and follow best practices.

Projects

Projects	Description	Technologies	Link
Sqrl	A mobile app that lets user store favourite places with a map and retrieve them	React Native, Firebase, Native Base	n/a
MoodyNews	A web app that filters news by user's mood	Node.js, Express.js, Zombie, Mocha, HTML/CSS	Link
Makersbnb	An Airbnb Clone	Ruby, HTML/CSS, PostgreSQL, Rspec, Capybara	Link
TicTacToe	Tic-Tac-Toe game	JavaScript,Jasmine	n/a
RockPaperScissors	Good old RockPaperScissors game!	Ruby, Sinatra, Rspec, HTML/CSS	n/a

Skills

Analytical Thinker

• Built a standalone app for the Audit team using React/Redux front end with Java 8 Spring backend. Got familiar with concepts of Kafka streams, docker, Postgres DB and AWS

• As a trained Engineer I always look for opportunities to automate any manual tasks. In my role as Test Automation Engineer I enjoyed automating the end to end testing cycle including Continuous Integration(Jenkins), test automation(Python + Robot Framework) and result generation(HTML/CSS/Jenkins).

• I also extended my role into DevOps by migrating our Test Infrastructure from VMWare ESX to McAfee Cloud(VRealize Automation).

• I achieved 98% test automation, 80% code and functional coverage for Threat Intelligence component in all of McAfee Enterprise and Consumer Products.

Leadership

• I led sprint planning, backlog grooming, product roadmap through daily stand ups to focus on delivery and value to the customer iteratively.
• I was responsible for a team of 10 to build, test and release anti-virus updates for various McAfee products globally everyday.
• I co-founded womenhackfornonprofits.com, a social enterprise for women in tech to build free open source software for charities around the world.

Excellent Team Player

I thrive working in a team. I always go out of my way communicate openly with others and have a good relationship with all my team members.

• In my current role, I established a relationship with SMEs to gain domain knowledge quickly. I also engaged with product owner/customers to get quick feeback of our features.
• As a team we decided and followed Continuous Delivery approach to release frequently. We worked in small iterations on the next most valuable feature for the customer
• In my previous role as a Software Quality Engineer I always volunteered to mentor Work Experience students and Interns. I learnt a lot from pair programming with them.
• I wrote my tests along with the developers so that the tests are ready when the feature is complete. This saved 2 sprints worth of backlog and technical debt.

Technical Skills

• JavaScript, React/Redux, HTML/CSS
• Java, Ruby, Python
• Agile Methodolgies, Continous Delivery, Quality Assurance
• Rspec, Jasmine, Enzyme, Jest
• Pair programming, XP Values

Education

Makers Academy (July 2017 to September 2017)

• Curiosity and passion for writing clean and well tested code
• Independent learner and problem-solver
• OOP, TDD, SOLID, MVC
• Software Craftsmanship
• Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Node.js
• Rspec, Jasmine

City University London (September 2012 to September 2013)

• M.Sc Telecoms and Networks
• 2:1
• Student and Class Representative
• Cryptography, Wireless Networks

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. India(June 2004 - June 2008)

• Bachelors of Engineering(Hons)Computer Science
• 2:1
• Operating Systems, Computer Networks

Experience

Ladbrokes Coral (October 2017 to Present)
Software Developer

McAfee (October 2013 to June 2017)
Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard (June 2009 to August 2012)
Systems Engineer