Training to corporates and startups. Mainly, sharing my experience being in industry in various capacity and performing different roles and fullfilling several responsibilities. Sharing best practices, stressing on automation and friction less development environment, emphasising code quality and readability, trying to stop teams from accumulating too much technical debt, updating teams with latest industry trends, helping them derive go-to execution plan for product development, designing development workflows, alerting about common mistakes.For startup, training often takes the shape of mentoring and/or validation sessions for technical and product development aspects.Training Subjects : * HTML5 * CSS3* Javascript* JS6(Harmony)* Angular.js * Backbone.js* jQuery* Bootstrap* Zurb's Foundation* Phonegap/Corvoda* Ionic* Git* MongoDB* UX for Developers

Most instrumental in letting company ramp up in India.Code Level : Coding. Helping me and others write better code. Finding people who write better code. Thinking what would have been churning into proto-hacker's mind.Product Level : Being there doing that. UI/UX for enduser's safety and joy, data analytics for profit and fun.Organisational Level : Getting the band of geeks together for building the next big thing. Encouraging automation over drudgery (let the code win!). Having hacker culture in place (essentially, includes open source)

Responsible for providing everything server side at June Software (a.k.a. TapToLearn), a YC'12 and Imagine K12 Winter 2012 graduate, which specialises in mobile application development in education and games category.Highlights-------------* 15 odd service APIs in production. Rolled out an API every week on average.* 50K+ users using the APIs across 35K+ mobile devices in couple of months.* Maintaining very agile and often-then-not changing functional specs. Keeping backward compatibility in mind for already shipped applications.* Generating various reports for daily in house consumption using Google Chart Tools.* Initiated backend development from scratch. Including selection of technology stack, selection of third party vendors and architectural level decisions while keeping companies current and future goals in mind.* Prototyping and load testing for feasibility study.* API endpoints design and data exchange agreements with client side using JSON-Schema as a message format.* API implements - Device sync, Leader boards, Facebook integration among others features.* Complex aggregations using map-reduce* APIs are loosely RESTful, for all practical reasons.* Testing using vows.js* API provides acceptable security measures.* Standard and extensive logging provided for all APIs.* Input validation using JSON Schemas ( See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-03).* Build a layer of code/framework on top of node-mongodb-native to aid in the development for other developers.* Git based deployment.* Cluster.js to spawn multiple worker processes for redundancy and load balancing at services level.* Amazon EC2 instance with Amazon LBS to provide redundancy and load balancing at node level.* Using http-proxy as a reverse proxy.* Monitoring of all-apps-all-endpoints-across-all-versions with a single pingdom alert notifications.* DB Migration scripts whenever needed.

Project initiation, analysis, design, implementation, deployment, hosting and support. Other business functions as and when required in the capacity of freelancer. Following are some of the projects that highlights kind of work I did as independent software developer.## SMS based solution using Wammu/Gammu for digital publication house in education sector. - Clients were relying on snail mail and call centre to unlock their product ( Educational CD Titles ) which was quite an overhead for business and impacted their overall customer experience. - I set out to design a workflow which is cheap and easy to use from client's customers point of view and involved no humans. Savings were realised by not having to maintain call centre and reducing overheads involved. - Client's existing database system was integrated with Gammu to communicate with customers for the purpose of unlocking CD titles.## Customisation to Zimbra. - Project primarily involved constraining Zimbra end users to not send outgoing emails from their web clients.## Various Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla based websites and linking them with Google Analytics and AdWords. Helping them realise cheap affordable way to market at affordable rates and controlled budgets. ## Other web based solutions on LAMP.## Web and email hosting services.

# Client Policy Repository (CPR)The Client Policy Repository (CPR) is a data service for the storage of policy information for all applications across Marsh. Placement systems will store policy information into CPR. This data included renewals, cancellations and any other relevant information. CPR will also provide audit trail. Other systems can access the data through API.## Roles* Authored SQL/Stored Procedure for data setup* Design appreciation and UI Mockups building* Design and Implementation along with JUnit* Ascertained FTCs* Reusable module for pagination* Load testing/Stress testing and performance analysis of application# Guy Carpenter Product Suite - Document Management (GCPS-DM)Helps generate and manage documents (e.g., contract, addenda, etc.) during the contract drafting process from the initial drafting to the receipt of the final document. Livelink was selected to meet the requirements. Practicability of the solution (Livelink) needed a check to avoid any performance handicaps during enterprise wide deployment.## Roles* Proposed the load scenarios for the load testing after understanding the end user usage patterns* Created the test scripts, parameterized and enriched for the load scenarios* Test reports with inferences and conclusions# Master Inventory of Names and Addresses (MINA)MINA was intended and developed to be used as a central repository of names and addresses to be used by all the applications across organisation. MINA functionality will provide access to data on Company, Colleague and Contacts to its Subscriber systems. This is implemented as a subscriber model when interacting with other Applications and provides notification to subscriber systems when data is updated. It is part of the Central Reference Data Repository envisaged by Marsh Inc. for its enterprise architecture.## Roles* Design and Implementation along with JUnit* Ascertained FTCs* Load testing/performance analysis* Ant build scripts

Text-to-speech system for GujaratiBuilt a text-to-speech system for arbitrary Gujarati Unicode text. The project was successful despite the fact that prior-study or research material for the theoretical input needed for development was not available. Development of the text-to-speech demanded strong domain knowledge of phonetics and Gujarati phonology which I acquired during the project. Job also involved discussion and consultation with linguists for various application challenges and solutions there of. The project was well appreciated and achieved high quality results both in terms of intelligibility and naturalness.# Technical Highlights* Uses segmented speech sound concatenation to achieve synthesis.* Segmented speech sound unit was earlier chosen to be partneme and letter changed to quasi-disyllable. Highly flexible in terms of adding support for new concatenation unit.* Takes IPA Unicode range as input for core speech engine.* Highly modular. Easy to plug support for other language other then Gujarati since only letter-to-phoneme rules are to be changed. Speech engine can still be used. Separates language depended part from language independent parts everywhere possible.* Letter-to-phoneme translator for Gujarati component provided.* Preprocessing to deal with abbreviations and other exceptional use-cases. Enduser has control over preprocessing.* Utility to add new voices.* Based on Java, tested in Windows, Linux and Mac.# PresentationProject Presentation Link. Presentation created in 2003.