Homepage | Arun's Portfolio

Technical Proficiency

Arun's Technical Proficiency

Work Experience & Education

Flight Centre Travel Group, Brisbane, Australia.

Full Stack Web Developer (May 2017 - Present)

Flight Centre Travel Group is Australia's largest corporate and leisure travel company, encompassing stores all over the world, in countries including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, United States and more.

Website Customer Experience projects:

Working with several sites at once, including legacy and new-world.
Custom Module development and Sub-Theming in Drupal 7.
Using a combination of core Drupal 7 features such as forms, panels, paragraphs, rules and views along with custom modules and overrides.
Developing ‘Platform’ – a starter site containing a generalized set of features, to bring all Flight Centre brand websites under one roof.
Exploring features of Drupal 7, Drupal 8 and conducting estimation and POC sessions.
Styling using SASS and component standards, Building front-facing React components and using JSON for data transfer.
XML sitemaps, Site settings such as global variables, users, redirects and permissions.
Working in tandem with peers, senior developers, business analysts, team leaders; including requirements gathering, demonstrations and discussions
Foundation framework, Drupal coding standards and JS libraries
Version control using GIT and BitBucket, managing releases and reviewing code.
Regression testing of live websites, including cross-device and cross-browser testing.

Live Examples:

Adelphi Digital Consulting Group, Canberra, Australia

Technical Developer (Dec 2016 - Apr 2017)

Adelphi Digital Consulting Group (currently a part of Ernst & Young), was a digital agency serving clients across Australia and other countries with stand-alone and government websites.

Australian government POCs and single page site projects:

Custom Modules and Sub-Theming in Drupal 8 (using Twig).
Using core Drupal 8 features such as forms and views.
Exploring new features of Drupal 8 and conducting PoCs.
Interacting with client-side representatives, including requirements gathering, demonstrations and discussions
Following Agile methodology and working in small teams.
Project Tracking and reporting.

Live Examples:

Infosys Limited, Chennai, India

Systems Engineer (Sep 2011 - Oct 2014)

Infosys Limited is India's second-largest Information Technology services provider. With thousands of clients across the globe and over a hundred thousand employees, Infosys is one of the leaders in the IT industry.

Warner Music Group artist websites:

Creation or Warner Music Group artist websites in Drupal, WordPress and/or Tumblr platforms.
Styling of websites using CSS3, SASS.
Attending daily scrum, maintenance and testing.
Interacting with client-side representatives across USA and UK.
Device and cross-browser testing.

Live Examples:

AT&T's Vehicle Tracking system (internal)

Development of an internal ArcGis map-based service vehicle tracking system.
Developing the back-end in Java (Struts2)
Preparing initial design of the websites.
Used ArcGIS technology for mapping and tracking vehicle locations in real-time.
Weekly meetings with AT&T representatives.

AT&T's Call records analytics (internal)

Development of an internal Informatica-based call records analytics system.
Project Documentation and Debugging Teradata queries.
Generating daily reports in Informatica
Weekly meetings with AT&T representatives.

The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Master of Computing, specialising in Software Engineering (2015 - 2016)

The Australian National University is currently Australia's highest ranked institution, featuring amongst the top 25 universities across the world.

Android apps:

Design & Development of an Android Calculator, that can process mathematical expressions. Developed as a course assignment.
Design, Development, Maintenance and Testing of a simple Android Note Taker app, that can store and retrieve notes.
Coding of the app in Java, Implementation of features & project management.
Interacting with lecturers and team mates.
Implementation of features, jUnit testing.

Live Examples:

GitHub repository

E-Co research project

Creation of an experimental web platform, to facilitate collaboration between industry and academia.
Eliciting and Documenting client requirements, managing expectations.
Project management planning, tools and Agile methodology.
Website design, UI development and UX using Bootstrap.
Laravel Framework for PHP and data modeling.
Interacting with client and team on a weekly basis.

Toastmasters International, Chennai, India

Member from 2012 - 2016

Toastmasters International is a non-profit organisation based in the US, with the primary purpose of promoting public speaking and networking skills across the globe.

Co-founder, member and mentor at Infosys Shols Toastmasters Club:

Created a new toastmasters club.
Served as the President, Vice President (Membership and Education) and Mentor.
Actively participated in club activities.

External events

Promoting the club on an area, district, zonal and global level.
Participated in annual speech and humorous speech contests.
Inducted new members and mentored them.
Volunteered to conduct major events.

Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering (2007 - 2011)

Silicon Institute of Technology is one of India's premier autonomous institutions, offering engineering courses and with an excellent track record of placing Alumnis across the world.

As a student: