Prasath Rajasekaran

A little bit about me..

Hi I am Prasath. I am Senior Software Engineer with a strong technical background, experienced in managing small products, collaborating with Product Managers, translating business needs into technical requirements, and supporting developers - I am currently pursuing a Master’s in Information Systems to level up my management skills and to contribute to work at the intersection of technology and management.

Academic Backgorund

Masters, Information System, University of Cininnati, Ohio
MSc, Information Technology*, Anna University, Chennai

Work Experience

Engineering Lead, RootQuotient Technologies

Led engineering teams ranging from 5 to 10 individuals, overseeing daily stand-up meetings and ensuring effective communication with clients and stakeholders.
Translated client and business needs into actionable tasks for development teams, performed code reviews, and conducted retrospectives to facilitate continuous learning and improvement within the teams.
Gathered Requirements, designed and developed a Shopify app for a loyalty management company.
Developed a full-text document search engine using elastic search.

Senior Software Engineer, Forensic Alpha

Designed AWS Architecture & migrated the company’s cloud infrastructure from Google Cloud to AWS (Load balancing, Route 53, Database migration service)
Developed a service using Ruby on Rails to gather financial data from multiple transactional systems and saved in operational data store built using MongoDB for self-serve reporting
Built continuous delivery pipelines using Capistrano, Jenkins

Crediwatch Information Analytics, Ruby on Rails Developer

Automated daily workflows around risk assessment report generation for the data analyst team resulting in a 90% reduction in dependency on developers for critical reporting.
Solid understanding of and complete adherence to Agile processes in mid-scale development environments.

Digiryte Private Limited, Software Developer

System design, development, and deployment of an MVC-based custom e-commerce website aimed at selling craft beers and beverages in the UK

Experience in R

I have no previous experience in R and I am looking forward to learn!

Experience with other analytics tool

I have a minimal experience working with Pandas library, though I have intermediate skills in python

Hobbies

Writing

I maintain an instagram page @the_boring_batman. Here, you can catch me fumbling with random words and trying to write poems, and fail miserably.At your own risk!
Reading

I try to read books whenever I can. My current favorite author is Adam Grant. I love Adam Grant’s work because of his life mission, which is to align character and success.
Making Playlists

If nothing works in life, I ususally sit and listen to music and make playlists for different shades of life that we go through!

Here’s Some Code that I did last week

Question 1: BMI

Given the equation for calculating Body Mass Index (BMI) is:

\[BMI = \frac{lbs\times 703}{inches ^2} \] Say an individual weighs 150 lbs and is 68 inches tall. What is their BMI?

wt <- 150
ht <- 68
bmi <- (wt * 703) / (ht ^ 2)
round(bmi, digits=1)

## [1] 22.8

Question 2: Cost of Pizza

Say you have a 12” diameter pizza that costs $8. Given the area of a circle is $A = \pi(diameter/2)^2$, fill in the blanks to compute the cost per square inch of this pizza.

diameter <- 12
cost <- 8
area = pi * ( (diameter/2) ^ 2)
cost_per_square_inch <- cost / area

diameter2 <- 15 
cost2 <- 12 
area2 <- pi * ( (diameter2/2) ^ 2)
cost_per_square_inch2 <- cost2 / area2 

cost_per_square_inch

## [1] 0.07073553

cost_per_square_inch2

## [1] 0.06790611