My Career as a hobbyist / employee and freelance programmer went from my school electronics days, to my intense vb6 college days and a professional career from 2006 to 2022. I am now into multiple things as my linkedin profile and phase 2 of career will reflect.

Career Past — 2013 To 2014 — Groupfmg

Sr Tech Lead
BORN Group
Sep 2013 - Jun 2014 · 10 mos
Chennai Area, India

This was back when BORN was still Group FMG

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Worked in php in a 3 man team augmenting the MON team in Bellevue at blinkx.com after a visit there. It was being migrated from .Net.

Ported select features to Kohana / Laravel and YiiFramework, developing a statistics module in each for benchmarking so we could choose what suited us best.

Was a key player as the only developer to know both languages so would help the existing team pickup php.

Also had a taste of AWS

Catalog Website

Worked on a Wordpress site for an energy saving company that was being migrated from Magento.

Had to understand the schema of Magento and write a Winforms app to bring it to a format that could be imported.

Found suitable plugins and architected customizations in some cases.

Skills:

Web Development
System Architecture