ARUNBALAJI RENGARAJAN

5817 Douglas Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 | 412-961-4073 | arunkam@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/arunbalajirr

Summary

Full-Stack developer with 3 years of experience as web developer and freelance mobile application developer. Published

apps in Nokia store with more than 1 billion downloads. Passionate about Android application development and Django.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University Aug 2015 - Aug 2016

Master of Science: Information Technology (Software Engineering) Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Coursework: Devops • Cloud Computing • Engineering Data Intensive Scalable Systems • Architecture for Software

Systems • Managing Software Development • Business for Engineers • Risk Management for Software Intensive Projects

SASTRA University Jul 2008 – May 2012

Bachelor of Technology: Computer Science Tanjore, TN, India

Dean's List: Top 10% of class

Work Experience

Reedwithus Inc. Feb 2014 – Jul 2015 Full Stack Developer / Android Developer Trichy, India

o First hired full stack developer for an early stage start-up.

o Lead development of two websites using Python, Django and JavaScript that involved streaming videos from

Amazon S3 and a dynamic text rendering system capable of handling scientific content.

o Designed and developed an Android application using Xamarin for a health care based product.

Freelancer May 2012 - Jan 2014 J2ME Developer / Android Developer / Xamarin Developer Trichy, India

o Published 30+ mobile applications using Java in Nokia Store, with cumulative download of over 1 billion.

o Collaborated with technical and non-technical teams across the globe for gathering user requirements and

developing applications using them.

Projects

Open-source Mobile Client for an SDLC Support Tool: Jan 2016 - Aug 2016

o Spearheaded an Agile Team of 3 to build an open-source cross platform (iOS & Android) mobile application using

Xamarin for an existing open-source software development life-cycle (SDLC) support tool called Process Dashboard.

o Provided software engineering expertise throughout the software development life-cycle, from requirements

elicitation to delivery. Participated in code reviews and provided technical guidance to improve code quality.

Scalable Ecommerce Backend: May 2016 - Aug 2016

o Developed a scalable back end for an ecommerce website using Nodejs. Achieved fault-tolerance using load

balancer and auto scaling groups. Design tested to withstand 10,000 simultaneous users.

o Configured Elasticsearch to achieve performance of 80 milliseconds on a full text search among 9 million records.

Big Data Analytics On Cloud: Twitter Analytics: Jan 2016 – May 2016

o Designed and developed an optimized web-server capable of handling 25000 requests per second. Performed

Extract Transform and Load (ETL) on a large data-set of size 1TB using Map-Reduce.

o Performed benchmarks to determine the optimum configurations for scaling MySQL database.

Devops Pipeline: Aug 2015 – Dec 2015

o Designed and implemented a Devops pipeline for a J2EE project. This involved continuous integration using

Jenkins, automated unit testing and security testing using OWASP-ZAP.

o Shipped the application as Docker containers on AWS EC2 instances using vagrant and shell scripts.

Key Skills

Java, C#, Python, Django, Android, JavaScript, Xamarin, Docker, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services, Azure, MySQL, HBase