Vinayak Ram Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

WhatsApp - iOS engineer focused on privacyMessenger Desktop - Bringing the Messenger experience to Mac & Windows with React Nativebuilding*8 / Portal Team - Android application software for "Portal from Facebook"Moments for iOS - Sharing photos and videos over a private network

* Lead, designed, developed, and deployed multiple external and internal iOS and Android applications * Mentored junior developers* Developed, lead, and designed a responsive website counterpart to an existing native iOS and native Android app

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Responsibilities included leading the development effort, architecting, requirements gathering, implementing requirements, running scrum calls, developing proof-of-concepts, and bug fixing* Ran multiple iOS bootcamps and trained more than 25 co-workers in iOS development* Investigated numerous development tools and processes to improve processes across the development practiceLead development effort for the following iOS apps: * a customer-facing app for a large international hotel chain* a greeting card app for 450k customers* an internal app for a real estate company to increase operational efficiency* an internal sales metrics app for a very well known online retailer* a consumer drug verification app for a large pharmaceutical companyAlso worked on backend (Java tech) and front-end (Javascript) projects:* Client facing responsive website using HTML 5 Geolocation APIs and more* A large client facing and internal information portal* Client facing Healthcare Retail Information Portal built for the newer healthcare laws

A professor from the University of Chicago wanted to "shake things up" and bring a working professional to help TA a course on Android Development. * Responsibilities included: creating course materials, teaching, training students on source code management tools (git), grading projects, holding office hours

* Responsibilities included: gathering requirements, fixing bugs, implementing new features, supporting backend systems, developing internal tools, end-user support / training* Worked on the following projects: Order Management System and Operations Desktop* Led an effort to write and maintain a cleaner codebase

Freelance Developer

Chicago, Il, Us

* Responsibilities included: designing and developing prototypes and applications, gathering requirements, system documentation, implementation, resource management, end-user support / training, daily communication with clients, developers, and management* Worked on the following projects: real-time message injector, Maven 2 department-wide integration, the Positions batch and real-time application, the Deliveries batch application* Organized and led "Code Katas,"​ and other departmental presentations focused on specific technologies and development practices* Took on additional side projects, such as upgrading the company's source code management tool to git and the UC4/CME Scheduler batch artifact versioning tool. Both of these efforts have saved the company more than $1 million a year.* Established strong and collaborative working relationships with internal staff and IT across departments whose support was critical in ensuring successful projects* Performed research and analysis on NoSQL technologies, such as MongoDB, Hadoop, Redis, taking into account pros and cons to create working prototypes and designs for production applications* Instrumental in identifying / automating manual deployment processes, which saved the company money in time and resources, while improving the quality of the delivered service

Managed technology needs including hardware and software development. Also managed online marketing and search engine optimization needs.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Teaching Assistant for:Computer Organization and AssemblyData Structures