{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Vivek Ranjan",
    "label": "Lead Software Engineer",
    "picture": "https://vivekranjan.me/img/profile.png",
    "email": "vivek@vivekranjan.me",
    "website": "https://vivekranjan.me",
    "location": {
      "city": "New York",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "New York"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "GitHub",
        "url": "https://github.com/bcosynot"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "LinkedIn",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekranjan1"
      }
    ],
    "summary": "Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years track record of leading agile teams and delivering high-impact, scalable, full-stack systems using Python, Java, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and AWS. Enjoys collaborating across teams to solve significant, real-world problems while relentlessly discovering ways to optimize software systems and organizational delivery processes."
},
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "Capsule",
      "position": "Staff Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2025-04-18",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed and implemented an LLM-powered AI agent system using Pydantic AI that accelerated prior authorization processing by 70%, directly improving patient access to medication.",
        "Designed event-driven task routing system using microservices to distribute prescription processing failures to pharmacists and technicians based on real-time availability",
        "Improved database performance leading to 21% reduction in CPU usage, 35% reduction in IOPS and 50% reduction in costs.",
        "Backend - Python, pytest, Django, PostgresSQL",
        "Frontend - Typescript, Next.js, React, Vite",
        "Infrastructure/Other - Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (Lambda, ElastiCache, EKS, RDS, SQS/SNS), Shell, CI/CD pipelines, Sentry, Grafana (Prometheus, Loki)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Renaissance Learning",
      "position": "Staff Software Engineer",
      "website": "https://www.renaissance.com/",
      "startDate": "2022-03-01",
      "endDate": "2025-04-15",
      "highlights": [
        "Proposed & led project: Achieved 73% cost reduction by moving batch jobs to AWS Fargate.",
        "Created an IaC framework (Python, AWS CDK, Docker) that raised deployment frequency by 40% and streamlined batch‑job development for all teams.",
        "Mentored multiple engineers leading to their promotions and improvement of their technical skills.",
        "Backend - Python, pytest, Java, Spring (MVC), Groovy/Spock, Microsoft SQL Server",
        "Frontend - Vue/Vuex, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Jest",
        "Infrastructure/Other - Docker, AWS (ECS/ECR, Fargate, CDK, RDS, Aurora Serverless), Shell, CI/CD pipelines, Datadog, Cronitor"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Renaissance Learning",
      "position": "Lead Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2019-07-01",
      "endDate": "2022-03-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Led project: UX redesign implementation of crucial progress monitoring tool used by educators and millions of students. Modernized frontend (Vue, Vuex, Jest) and optimized backend (Java, Spring, REST, Hibernate, MS SQL Server, Groovy/Spock).",
        "Proposed & led project: Reduced engineering effort by 4 weeks annually by building a microservice driven content‑management system on AWS Aurora Serverless, Lambda, and API Gateway with a Vue front‑end.",
        "Proposed & led project: Doubled deployment frequency and saved 10 hrs/week by automating monolith deployments and adding end‑to‑end CI/CD tests with Docker and CloudFormation",
        "Backend - Python, pytest, Java, Spring (MVC), Groovy/Spock, Microsoft SQL Server, AWS Aurora (serverless Postgres)",
        "Frontend - Vue/Vuex, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Jest",
        "Infrastructure/Other - Docker, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, ElasticBeanstalk, CloudFormation, IAM, RDS, Aurora Serverless), Shell, CI/CD pipelines, Datadog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "FastBridge Learning",
      "position": "Lead Software Engineer",
      "website": "https://fastbridge.org",
      "startDate": "2018-03-01",
      "endDate": "2019-06-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Led project to deliver a web application that provides easy access to millions of data points that help educators understand the performance of all students in a mid-western state.",
        "Worked with a scrum team to build a datawarehouse in AWS Redshift, a microservice serving REST APIs using Spring Boot, and a JS-based frontend to render data as user-friendly reports."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "FastBridge Learning",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "website": "https://fastbridge.org",
      "startDate": "2017-03-01",
      "endDate": "2018-02-28",
      "highlights": [
        "Reduced load time by 98% for a web-based graphical and tabular report used by educators to inform instructional methodology for at-risk students."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "FastBridge Learning",
      "position": "Founding Engineer",
      "website": "https://fastbridge.org",
      "startDate": "2015-06-15",
      "endDate": "2017-02-28",
      "highlights": [
        "4th engineer at Seed-stage startup that reached $20M ARR and successful exit."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of Minnesota",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Master of Science",
      "startDate": "2013-08-01",
      "endDate": "2016-12-20"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Backend",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "NodeJS",
        "Java",
        "SQL (MS SQL Server, Postgres)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Frontend",
      "keywords": [
        "Typescript",
        "React",
        "Next.js"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Infrastructure/Other",
      "keywords": [
        "Agentic AI Coding (Cursor, Claude Code, Junie, etc)",
        "AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, ECS, ECR, Fargate, ElasticBeanstalk, Cloudformation, CDK, S3, EC2, RDS, IAM, etc)",
        "Datadog",
        "Grafana (Loki, Prometheus, etc)",
        "CI/CD pipelines",
        "Docker",
        "Kubernetes (kubectl, Helm, k9s, etc)",
        "Agile",
        "Scrum",
        "Shell"
      ]
    }
  ]
}