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Ambika Venugopal

Ambika Venugopal

Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates

Summary

Full Stack Developer with experience in Liferay DXP, currently managing and enhancing the SCAD website. Skilled in Core Java, Spring MVC, Angular, and RESTful APIs, with a strong focus on building scalable, user-friendly applications. Experienced in theme customization, custom development, and end-to-end project delivery, including requirement gathering and implementation. Also leveraging AI-driven development (“vibe coding”) to improve efficiency and innovation.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Full Stack Developer

Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2025.05 - Current
  • Assisted in managing and maintaining SCAD website on Liferay platform.
  • Developed and customised Liferay themes to meet branding and UX requirements.
  • Contributed to AI-driven features and automation to enhance user experience and efficiency.
  • Supported building dynamic Angular components and templates for modern responsive UI.
  • Implemented custom Liferay modules and features based on business needs.
  • Gathered and analysed requirements from stakeholders to translate into technical solutions.
  • Handled end-to-end development including frontend, backend, and integrations.
  • Performed bug fixes, enhancements, and production support activities.
  • Integrated APIs to ensure seamless data flow across systems.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams including infra, QA, and business teams.

Development Engineer

American Eagle
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2022.10 - 2025.04
  • Conceptualized, designed, and implemented pivotal front-end modules within the Liferay ecosystem, enhancing overall portal functionality.
  • Extend the user experience within Liferay DXP through the uses of templates,fragments,forms,collections ,objects and extensions.
  • Led the integration of external APIs to bring diverse and real-time data into Liferay portals. This initiative aimed to enhance user experiences by providing dynamic content, ensuring that the portals remain up-to-date and engaging for users.
  • Managed seamless migration from Liferay DXP 7.3 to 7.4 and also prepared comprehensive migration document to facilitate smooth and informed migration processes.
  • Designed and implemented notifications using Objects to streamline the user onboarding journey on the portal, encompassing sign-up with email, email retrieval for user identification, password recovery, and username retrieval functionalities.
  • Used Service Builder for generating remote liferay web services in REST and exposed it to JSON webservice using service.xml
  • Performed seamless deployment of JAR and WAR files in Liferay, ensuring module activation via Gogo Shell, and meticulously examined logs for a thorough assessment of system status and functionality
  • Proficient in setting up and managing staging and production environment for Liferay DXP and also experience in applying the hotfixes using patching-tool.

Liferay Developer

INTALIO-EVERBUSINESS
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2021.08 - 2022.10
  • Implementation on a large scale for a strategic Abu Dhabi Entity developed an intranet portal responsible for deployment, testing and security process
  • Designed and Developed the Intranet Portal on Liferay DXP 7.3 using agile Methodology and followed Scrum, which included Liferay's customized portlets and templates that can be used to make content changes easy and fast
  • Integration of Active Directory ,Open Office , Mail Server and Social
  • Networking Applications
  • Participated in planning and analysis for delivering the features and modules as per requirements
  • Designed the API consumption on the front-end side, which includes the implementation of service, object models, controller design and the
  • UI look and feel as per the theme
  • Applied robust programming design concepts to back and front-end systems
  • Provided detailed progress reports and milestone updates to key stakeholders, maintaining project momentum
  • Responsible for the development and implementation of Intranet
  • Security process like Apache Upgradation , XSS etc
  • To ensure they are robust , secure and available for business requirements

Java Developer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
Pune, INDIA
2018.09 - 2021.06
  • Worked on Core Java, Spring IOC, Hibernate, REST services, Liferay DXP 7.3 ,Maven & Jenkins
  • Trained and managed developers, using team strengths to resolve issues efficiently and improve productivity
  • Working closely with business & Architect team to implement suggestions as per business requirements
  • Taking care of deployment on integration and system test server via
  • Jenkins
  • Building team on technical side as per project technology and architecture
  • Experience in configuration management tool as SVN
  • Experience in writing project specification
  • Interacting with client for project development, plan & enhancement
  • Worked with cross-functional development teams to improve technical standards and manage project workloads.

Education

Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research
India

Skills

  • Liferay Technologies: Liferay DXP, Theme Development, Custom Modules
  • Programming Languages: Core Java, JavaScript
  • Frontend Development: Angular, HTML5, CSS3
  • Backend & Frameworks: Spring MVC
  • API Development: RESTful APIs, Integration Services
  • Database: SQL Programming
  • DevOps & Tools: Jenkins, Git
  • Project Management & Tracking: Jira
  • AI-assisted Coding (“Vibe Coding”)

Certification

Liferay DXP 7.2 Backend Development License -22417012

Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent
Malayalam
Intermediate

Additional Information

  • On the Spot Award 2019 and 2020 for increasing Customer Satisfaction Index Best Team Award 2020
  • Secured 2nd position in Badminton at the Abu Dhabi Sports Council tournament in 2025, and 3rd position in the same competition in 2026.

Timeline

Full Stack Developer

Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi
2025.05 - Current

Development Engineer

American Eagle
2022.10 - 2025.04

Liferay Developer

INTALIO-EVERBUSINESS
2021.08 - 2022.10

Java Developer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
2018.09 - 2021.06

Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research
Ambika Venugopal