Afreen Chitwadgi Sikandara

A Software Engineer offering 8 years of experience in full software development life cycle; a quick learner, someone passionate about software development, value high quality code and team player with good communication skill.

• Experience in C#.Net, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Nodejs, Angular, Typescript, Nestjs, Socket.io, WPF, JSON, TFS, JIRA, Confluence, Outsystems.
• Experience in working on real time data processing using Kafka.
• Experience in defining remote communication methodologies such as web services and Rest.
• Experience in creating and consuming API as a service.
• Knowledge of SQL Server, NOSQL, stored procedures and database design.
• Experience in creating SSL certificates.
• Experience in designing, developing and testing long running data intensive tasks using RabbitMQ.
• Experience in designing and developing a process to store and manipulate huge data from a 3rd party Web API service.
• Experience in deploying windows services using Nginx and NSSM.
• Experience in creating documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• Experience in all phases of software development life cycle including functional requirements, definition, technical design, development, testing, quality assurance, system certification, systems implementation and system validation.
• Experience in creating database related technical designs.
• Consistently able to assess and evaluate problems in a production environment and manage risk to the service when recommending change.
• Strong secure coding practices.
• Strong experience working in an Agile environment. Commitment to Agile values and team-based work.
• Value high quality code and thus involved in getting my code reviewed and reviewing that of my peers.
• Experience in analyzing the performance and the quality of existing code and to decide on refactoring/rewriting it.
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting issues related data, deployment and production and work on fixing it in a timely manner.
• Experience in understanding the process for a product to get an ISO certificate during an annual audit. 
• Have provided technical support to mobile applications (Android and IOS) written in Xamarin.
• Good communication skill with experience in working in a multi-cultural environment.

1. Worked as a Software Developer at C Steinweg Online Pvt Ltd 1847 for 4 years in Singapore. Steinweg Online is a subsidiary of Steinweg Group, founded in 2015 to streamline and digitalize the processes between the customers, their financing banks and Steinweg Warehouses. The team worked on building a mobile and web-based platform using Outsystems for the Steinweg customers worldwide to view their inventory and trade their goods with each other online. 

• Was involved in all the stages of software development life cycle.
• Worked closely with the stake holder, product owner and business analysts daily to analyze the requirements and discuss the road map for the feature.
• Provide estimations on the feature to work in the sprint.
• Work with the other developers to analyze the requirements and architecture for the feature.
• Analyze, design, develop, test, document new and existing features.
• Get the code reviewed and do the same for my peers.
• Work with the DevOps team on creating a process for the deployment.
• Present the feature that I worked on to the team on review meetings.
• Work on bugs raised by the Quality Assurance team.
• Refactoring and optimizing the code with poor quality or performance.
• Provide production support during deployment.
• Mentor junior/new colleagues.
• Support QA team during deadlines.

Project #1: Accenture CAS

Responsibilities:

• Worked on implementing enhancing and creating new features for the product.
• Been part of the team to implement the Test-Driven Development approach.
• Worked on improving the code quality of the application by documenting the checklist for the peers.
• Implemented security check for the application (generate unique token for logged in user and cross check) at the backend end.
• Writing Unit testing using MOQ and SHIMS.
• Provided detailed estimates for new feature requests during the Release and Sprint Planning.
• Working with the product owner and the stake holder to better understand the business requirements and functional requirements of the new features.
• Provide code reviews to the peers.
• Provided resolution to the bugs with complete impact analysis and minimum rework.
• Responsible for bringing the count of code analysis warning of the application from 20 to 0.
• Working knowledge of Resharper 9.1.
• Worked with the testing team to help with the Assembly and Integration testing of different modules during deadlines.
• Worked on improving the performance of the application with the team especially the ones which involves sending millions of data to the UI.

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support by incident management.
• Created SQL procedures, functions and triggers which would help get the email notification in case of any crisis.
• Work on weekends to implement the change request during the production downtime.
• Working with the team to reduce the bug count.

Bachelors - Computer Science 

Shri Dharmasthala College of Engineering and Technology (SDMCET), Dharwad, Karnataka, India.

From – 2008 to 2012.