Anoop Sasidharan
Experienced in web development, python scripting, web scraping, AWS services to name a few. Like to automate tasks that are repetitive. Get things done attitude and a big follower of KISS and DRY principles. Currently working with Motional.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Working with map data platform team to build scale-able, resilient data that would be used by other consumers. Using big data technologies like
Spark, AWS Glue to handle data at scale.
Putting in place a variety of cost-saving measures, including spot instances, S3 lifecycle policies, intelligent tiering. As a result of my efforts, I have reduced AWS costs for certain services by 40-50% in the past year.
Senior Software Engineer
Architect/ develop a testing portal for internal teams, built on Django and deployed on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk and using other AWS services like Lambda, API gateway, SQS, SES etc. Also built APIs for other applications and POCs for multiple projects.
Product Owner
Worked as a PO along with Engineering duties side by side
Rolled out 3 projects to production during this phase and carried out planning for 2 other projects
Headed project estimation, risk mitigation, project planning/grooming
Acted as a point of contact for providing updates related to team's work and helped drive meetings with business stakeholders
Senior Software Engineer
Worked as a consultant with Autodesk through Apar. Was involved in building serverless apps, APIs for applications to communicate seamlessly.
Senior Software Engineer
Building components for existing ecommerce website, mostly in Python/ Django. Optimisations to areas that are slow in order to improve performance of entire website. Scalability and performance were tracked using Newrelic – APM and Insights before and after improvement.
Full Stack developer/Technology developer
My first exposure to full stack web developement, was part of a 2 man team working as a full stack web developer building components end to end. A great learning phase, tried out many new tools/ APIs of services like AWS, Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Google Sheets, Zopim, Crazy Egg, Optimizely to name a few.
Programmer Analyst
Was into C# web development, later on moved to modifying, creating stored procedures written in SQL Server. Also worked on python unit testing and enhancements to existing tool.
Education
Amrita School of Engineering
GPA: 8.03
Bangalore Public School
Percentage: 78
Skills
- Full Stack Web Development
- Cloud development/ Architecture
- Python scripting
- Web scraping
- Cross functional teams
- Agile Development & Scrum
Interests
Apart from being a coder, I enjoy travelling to new destinations to experience their culture, food and meet people. I like going on long rides/drives and a big fan of quirky/graphic tees, I tend to do a lot of research on people/ topics when they pique my interest.
I'm fond of tips and tricks videos, also like to try out magic tricks once in a while.
When forced indoors, I follow a number of movies and television shows, and I spend a large amount of my free time reading online articles, quora posts.