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LIJIN ACHUTHAN RAJITHA

Engineering Manager
Dubai

Summary

Engineering Manager with 10+ years of hands on experience in Software Development and Project Management. I have been part many startups from its beginning level to its corporate level growth and have played major roles in building tech stack, building tech team and digitalization of businesses like, Electronics Trading, Financing, Banking, Manufacturing and LMS. During my days in those companies I was responsible for the tech solutions and tech security. I started my career as a PHP developer and have been through PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, Java, Angular, React Android, iOS, Flutter, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle SQL development and project management. I have also worked on AWS Cloud solutions ( EKS, EC2, S3, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, SQS, SNS.. etc) and Kafka Streams.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Engineering Manager

NorthLadder
Dubai
05.2019 - Current

Our company is the first one in the region to disrupt illegal pawn market industry.

Initially I have built entire tech stack (on MEAN) from scratch,then built tech team, and designed auction engine, live pricing engine and cross country price distribution and risk management engine on which the current business is running, and Implemented strong authorization system on top of Auth 2.0 concept and extended few custom mechanism for business related requirement

Later on as company scaled I moved into Senior Engineering Manager role

My latest role in the company is to ensure timely delivery of quality solution to business problems in Catalogue, Finance and Pricing which is the core of the company business using few steps which I used to follow as per my learnings from TOGAF,

  • Solve business problem with minor impact on the current system and with minimal developer effort
  • Create Architectural overview and design of the solution for AWS cloud based deployment
  • Make sure on the timeline and team capacity to balance it on the company budget and business impact

Other than this I am responsible for the following,

  • Check for the country-legal compliance with finance team on the financial solutions
  • Manage catalogs in such a way that the customers can find it easily on the website
  • Manage elastic search for the catalogs

Project Lead

Geojit Technologies
Kochi
05.2016 - 04.2019
  • I was responsible for Collecting requirements, Architecting application, User flow design, team delivery management, QA and all SDLC stages
  • I had an opportunity to do my R&D in ML and we have got multiple clients for ML solutions as well
  • I was working as Industry Digitalization Consultant for multiple companies during my days in Geojit
  • Worked in multiple domains like, Banking, FinTech, Manufacturing Industry (Industry 4.0) etc. And I learned how to switch between industries easily by identifying challenges for them.

AngularJS Developer

Rawdata Technologies
09.2015 - 01.2016
  • Developing and delivering NodeJS backend and AngularJS front end according to client's requirement. Popular clients are nDash.co ( nDash is the easiest way to find, manage,
    and pay elite freelance writers ), HuLa ( Application for helping early failure detection of chemical experiments )

Project Team Lead

baabte System Technologies Private Limited
Calicut
05.2014 - 09.2015

Project: trackmyleadz.com

  • Speeding up the web application,
  • Finding best solution for new feature additions.

Project: 99lms.com

  • My role was to implement a full fledged LMS platform ( SaaS model ) . Implemented the application from scratch and managed a team of 5 people in Python(REST API), AngularJS.
  • This application contains plenty of content types to build a course and is apt for any institutions like Schools, Training Companies, and for enterprise companies for doing their internal trainings.
  • Researched on the current products available in the market and done few case studies to finalize the feature list and added new unique features and AI to it to provide best customer experience, then we realized there are 99 features that are must have for an LMS and named it after that.

Associate Trainer

Baabtra.com
Calicut
05.2013 - 09.2015
  • Baabtra.com -Best training in Python, Flutter, Angular and PHP, My responsibility was to provide best industry expertise in any programming related technologies to the employees of our client companies and I was assigned to assure the quality of training and trainees as well.

Application Developer

baabte System Technologies Private Limited
05.2013 - 05.2014

I was responsible for all stages of SDLC. As it was a startup, I had the opportunities to explore Development to Deployment journey. Started from collecting requirement from customer and identifying pain points, then creating a proposed architecture and user flow, then development, QA, production deployment, all these stages was managed by me for multiple projects I had a team of 5 and I was leading, training and motivating them.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science and Engineering

Karpagam University
01.2009 - 01.2013

Skills

    Nodejs

Angular

React

Java

Java Spring Boot

Python (Programming Language)

Penetration TestingElasticsearchKubernetes

Kafka

AWS Cloud Solutions

Banking and FinTech

Certification

Certified Penetration Tester - RedTeam Hacker Academy

Timeline

Engineering Manager

NorthLadder
05.2019 - Current

Project Lead

Geojit Technologies
05.2016 - 04.2019

AngularJS Developer

Rawdata Technologies
09.2015 - 01.2016

Project Team Lead

baabte System Technologies Private Limited
05.2014 - 09.2015

Associate Trainer

Baabtra.com
05.2013 - 09.2015

Application Developer

baabte System Technologies Private Limited
05.2013 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science and Engineering

Karpagam University
01.2009 - 01.2013
LIJIN ACHUTHAN RAJITHAEngineering Manager