Vivek Ranjan

New York, New York
[email protected] https://vivekranjan.me /bcosynot LinkedIn Blog

In here you will notice that (a) I enjoy collaborating and delivering value by solving significant, real world problems with polyglot full-stack software engineering (b) I am backend leaning, but I have also done a fair share of frontend and infrastructure work (c) I am relentlessly discovering ways to optimize software systems and organizational software delivery processes.

Skills

Backend
Java, NodeJS, Python, PHP, SQL (MS SQL Server, Postgres)
Frontend
HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Redux, Vue, Vuex, Jest
Infrastructure/Other
Shell scripting, Docker, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, ECR, Fargate, ElasticBeanstalk, Cloudformation, CDK, S3, EC2, RDS, IAM, etc), CI/CD pipelines

Experience

Renaissance Learning

Staff Software Engineer - Present Feb 2022
  • Proposed & led project: Achieved 73% cost reduction by moving batch jobs to AWS Fargate.
  • Crafted framework resulting in 40% boost in deployment frequency. Using IaC in Python with AWS CDK and Docker, this framework enabled teams to develop and deploy batch jobs with ease.
  • This framework added observability to batch jobs by automatically configuring them with Datadog and Cronitor. Built a custom CDK module for Cronitor monitors.
  • Helped with incidents by debugging performance issues in legacy Java monolith
  • 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), Shell, CI/CD pipelines
Lead Software Engineer - Feb 2022 Jun 2019
  • 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: Eliminated 4 weeks per year of engineering time by developing a content management system using AWS Aurora serverless (Postgres), Lambdas, API Gateway, Vue, Vuex, and Jest.
  • Proposed & led project: Achieved 2X increase in deployment frequency & eliminated 10 hours per week of manual work by automating monolith deployments and introducing end-to-end testing in CI/CD pipelines using Docker, YAML, shell scripts, AWS CLI 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, CLI, IAM), Shell, CI/CD pipelines

FastBridge Learning

Technical Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer - Jun 2019 Mar 2017
  • Led project: Delivered 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 the team to build a microservice serving REST APIs using Spring Boot, delivering data from a data-warehouse in AWS Redshift, and a JS-based frontend to render the data as user-friendly reports.
  • Helped rewrite our software to take advantage of a more distributed system so that we can scale and serve our growing customer base.
  • Backend - Java, Spring (Boot, JPA, Data, Data REST, MVC), JPA/Hibernate, Groovy/Spock, Microsoft SQL Server along with AWS Redshift
  • Frontend - HTML/CSS, JSP, JavaScript (ES6, webpack, babel and jQuery), Jest.
  • Infrastructure/Other - AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ElasticBeanstalk)
Software Engineer - Mar 2017 Jun 2015
  • 4th engineer at an early-stage EdTech startup (~10 employees). Developed features end-to-end to help educators understand needs of millions of students in reading and math.
  • Backend - Java, Spring (MVC), JPA/Hibernate, Microsoft SQL Server
  • Frontend - HTML/CSS, JSP, JavaScript, jQuery
  • Infrastructure - AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ElasticBeanstalk)

University of Minnesota

Full Stack Software Engineer (Part-time) - May 2015 Jan 2014
  • Using Java (Spring MVC) with HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery, and Microsoft SQL server, I added features to an existing web app to assess the reading abilities of 1000s of students and track their progress
  • Helped researchers in the Department of Educational Psychology design effective assessments for students.
  • Backend - Java, Spring (MVC), JPA/Hibernate, Microsoft SQL Server
  • Frontend - HTML/CSS, JSP, JavaScript, jQuery
  • Infrastructure - AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ElasticBeanstalk)

Education

University of Minnesota

Dec 2016
Master of Science - Computer Science

Volunteering

Astoria Digital

Community Engineer - Aug 2020 Mar 2020