Kamal Nayan

Senior Software Developer

Career Profile

Hello, I’m Kamal Nayan, a result driven passionate software engineer with expertise in Full Stack Web Development having 5 years of quality working experience, with exposure and interest in Natural Language Processing, proficient in penetration testing, always eager to work in challenging environment. Badged with various IBM certifications including IBM Blue Scholar, served as IBM Student Ambassador in college. History of building software systems with improved functionality and productivity, consistently meeting critical requirements.

Passionate about following new tech trends and, giving enthusiastic technical presentations with exceptional skills at developing and fostering personal relationships. An effective teacher, instructor and mentor in all aspects of software development.

  • Extensive work with, but not limited to perl, python, core java, Solr, MySQL and other web technologies
  • Passion and love towards programming and cyber security
  • 5yr experience in web development working with top giants like SAP, Zappos (Amazon subsidiary), Monster and IndiaMART
  • 2yr academic experience in web development, working on IBM The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) projects
  • Exposure to NLP, DevOps and recommendation engine
  • Always eager to learn, and passionate to share that learnt knowledge with peers
  • Certified in various IBM technologies, and an IBM Blue Scholar

Work Experiences

Senior Software Engineer

SAP, Bengaluru, India
Aug 2018 - Present

Working for Ops team of SAP (Product- Ariba)

Achievements:

  • Developing perl scripts to monitor servers
  • Migration of Ariba to SAP S4/Hana from Oracle
  • Developed a UI to make "Monitoring as a Service"

Technologies used:

  • perl
  • python
  • angular

Senior Software Engineer

Zappos (via GlobalLogic), Noida, India
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018

Worked as Full Stack Developer, and R&D Engineer

Achievements:

  • Implemented multi-threaded framework for scripts
  • Created a simple report generation framework
  • Automated the return label pdf generation process that reduced huge time of CLT team, thereby increasing efficiency
  • Design and develop new requirements that would draw higher business for the client
  • Reported and fixed various security issues. Also, gave InfoSec trainings at Org level

Technologies used:

  • perl (Template::ToolKit)
  • python
  • AWS
  • MyQSL
  • HTML/CSS/jQuery

Associate Software Engineer

Monster WorldWide, Noida, India
Dec 2014 - March 2016

Worked as Full Stack Developer, Search Engineer, and R&D Engineer

Achievements:

  • Maintenance (bug fixes and enhancement) of the legacy project Resume Search
  • Implemented Resume Parser, with exposure to Natural Language Processing
  • Made a POC for recommendation engine PredictionIO
  • UI Revamp of whole site
  • Automated scripts for various type of reports used in Monster for Internal purpose.
  • Implemented Folder Search from scratch using solr latest version at that time (v5.2)
  • Provided a platform for recruiter to search in their folders for application received
  • Utilized the feature of Solr joins over two cores, having 70M data on each core
  • Automated scripts for posting data to Solr servers
  • Implemented Skillsmart/NSDC search from scratch, but this being for NSDC & skillsmart candidates (100k users)

Technologies used:

  • perl (EmbPerl)
  • python
  • Solr
  • core java
  • MyQSL
  • HTML/CSS/jQuery

Associate Software Engineer

IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd., Noida, India
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014

Worked as Full Stack Developer, and R&D Engineer

Achievements:

  • Complete Ownership of product Login IM
  • Responsible for all types of sessions and cookie related issues
  • Cross product testing and raising alarm, reporting bugs on not only my product but on others too
  • Implemented Centralized JS Popup based login system on a new server named “login” from scratch
  • Implemented “Central Header” for all platforms of IndiaMART
  • Implemented Person API to fetch digital footprints of the user and save it in our database
  • Participated in various managerial discussion and give suggestions to make IndiaMART better
  • New Development / Bug Fixes / Maintenance in MY IM

Technologies used:

  • perl
  • Oracle
  • AWS (S3)
  • HTML/CSS/jQuery/OOJS

Skills & Tools

Backend

  • Perl
  • Python
  • Moose
  • Template::Toolkit
  • django
  • Core Java

Frontend

  • HTML/CSS/JS
  • jQuery
  • AngularJS

Databases

  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • mongoDB

Search Engines

  • Solr

Others

  • Catalyst
  • AWS(S3/EC2)
  • Google Cloud Products
  • Template::Toolkit
  • NLTK
  • Pen Testing
  • Eclipse
  • IBM Rational Rose
  • Firebug
  • jira
  • splunk
  • OOJS
  • git

Education

  • B. Tech, CSE, 84.4%
    PTU, Jalandhar
    2009 - 2013
  • SSC, 89.4%
    CBSE
    2007 - 2009
  • HSC, 81.6%
    CBSE
    2003 - 2007

Language

  • Hindi (Native)
  • English (Professional)
  • Punjabi (Professional)

Interests

  • CyberSecurity
  • Reading/Writing
  • Travelling
  • Stand-up

Publications

Awards

  • Best Hacker
    Globallogic, 2016
  • Student of the year
    ISTE, 2012
  • IBM Blue Scholar
    IBM
  • IBM Student Ambassador
    IBM