Avinash Agrawal

A new chapter in my quest to practice and hone my craft as a full stack web developer.

E-Commerce implementation using Shopify for a US based diamond jewelry retail business.

• Research and analysis to identify best ecommerce solution.
• Shopify implementation with extensive theme customization - Liquid Templating, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Adding new UI features not included in the Shopify theme, like - promotional pop-ups, visually rich ‘about us’ page, visually rich ‘diamond and jewelry education page’, product specifications grid, product image thumbnails etc.
• Website SEO by fine tuning static and generated HTML markup, URLs and copy text.
• Ongoing support.

Built a basic CRUD app using Ruby on Rails, for diamond jewelry authenticity certificate lookup. Scope included setting up a cloud VPS based Linux production server from scratch.

Worked as a full-stack web developer and technical lead, building parts of a digital platform for a major UK based telecom service provider.

• Designed and built a high traffic REST API middleware using JavaEE/Spring, to act as the backend for Android and iOS Apps used by more than a million users.
• Built a mobile web app using adaptive and responsive web design, in the form of an Angular 1.4 based single page app.
• Rebuilt the front-end of an existing JavaEE based web app in the form of an Angular 1.4 based single page app.
• Extensively used Agile practices, including scrum, test driven development and pair-programming.
• Implemented Cucumber+Selenium based automated functional tests, Jenkins based CI pipeline and Swagger based REST API Docs, MongoDB based app analytics store.

• Built an offshore application development team from the ground up - recruitment, coaching & mentoring.
• Responsible for team’s technical, business and professional knowledge development, and ongoing management.
• As a lead - overseeing offshore delivery of small and medium projects and BAU tasks.
• As an individual contributor - working in the capacity of a senior developer and business analyst within the global team, responsible for handling major projects.
• Tech stack - Perl + Shell script based bespoke ETL suite, Excel VBA based tactical reporting tools, Autosys based overnight batch processing, Oracle based data warehouse.

The engagement involved working in a wide range of on-site consulting roles at a global investment bank. Roles included:

• Trading desk aligned RAD developer - using Excel VBA .
• Business analyst - responsible for functional test analysis, specification and facilitation with end-users.
• Senior Application Developer for a program involving a global, multi-year technology platform migration. Tech stack - Perl + Shell based ETL layer, Excel VBA based reporting tools, Sybase data store.

Lead the end-to-end offshore delivery of a tactical software solution to satisfy a key and time-critical regulatory compliance requirement for a global investment bank.

Worked as a client facing application support analyst responsible for:

• Day-to-day user query resolution, user onboarding and training.
• Coordination with various stakeholders during system upgrades and outages.
• Automated day-to-day application monitoring, alerting and KPI tracking processes, resulting in time-save and increased reliability.
• Streamlined interaction between cross-location, multicultural support teams (Hong Kong, London and Houston) to achieve more robust service levels and better application stability.

Worked as an offshore VB6 front-end programmer for a large, global investment bank. Demonstrated ability to convert complex functional requirements into high quality, defect-free technical implementation, with minimal supervision.