Ankith

813-***-****

PHP developer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Professional 7+ years of experience in IT industry including Software Development, Web Applications, Project Management and Software Testing with sound background working with Health Care, Real Estate, Insurance, Travel & Tourism, Pharmaceutical & Recruitment industry.

Expertise working on various applications such as Business Applications, CRM, E-Commerce and CMS based projects in Windows (WAMP, XAMPP) & Linux (LAMP) environment.

Good understanding of OOPS Paradigm & all the principles in Object Oriented Programming & strong knowledge in MVC architecture.

Exposure in working with Agile & Waterfall Model, participating with Sprint meetings, daily Scrum meetings, sprint review & Retrospective meetings.

Hands on experience in Open Source tools like Joomla, Word press and Drupal.

Strong knowledge of Template Integration for CMS & E-commerce web applications.

Experience working as a Fullstack developer which includes working with both front end as well as back end of application.

Exposure on various E-commerce tools such as Presta Shop, Magento & Open Cart.

Hands on experience in frameworks like Zend 1.12, ZF2, Code igniter, Cake PHP, PEAR and Smarty.

Working experience in using ORM components like Propel & Doctrine.

Experience in integration of various APIs such as Mail Chimp, Google, Face book & Twitter API integration, Twitter Bootstrap & vice-versa.

Expertise in client side scripting languages like Java Script, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, Backbone Js and Angular Js.

Working experience in integration of Web Services (REST & SOAP) that includes consuming external web service & developing internal service to integrate with mobile applications using either JSON or XML.

Experience in UNIX SH/BASH Shell Scripting and working exposure of data analytics.

Familiarize with AWS Cloud services like Elasti Cache as well as APIs such as Email, Database Back Up, Disaster Recovery, Application Hosting & Simple Storage (S3) services.

Possess strong client and server side programming abilities, including Database Design and development.

Experience with RDBMS such as Oracle as well as No Sql databases like Mongo DB, MemCached and OrientDb.

Experience in developing responsive websites using HTML5 & CSS3 as well as exposure of using various debugging tools as per various devices.

Involved in client interaction to discuss the user stories, analyzing the requirements & creating functional specification & giving effort estimation.

Interact with other team members, distributing the work among the team, troubleshooting the issues overcome by other team members.

Performed Unit & Integration Testing using testing framework after the functionality is achieved & automated the scripts using Jenkins as a build tool.

Experience in Manual testing of Web-based applications with focus on Functionality Testing & System Testing. Experience in various testing tools like Bug Zilla, JIRA, HP Quality Center.

Experience in versioning control packages like Tortoise SVN, Git version control.

Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and different phases involved in software development.

Experience in planning, scheduling, coordinating and leading all aspects for projects & good Analytical, Problem Solving, Training and Leadership skills.

Able to work under limited supervision in fast paced environment with tight project deadlines and changing priorities.

Excellent communication, documentation and organization skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment quickly & ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to work independent as well as team person.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Web Technologies : PHP5, PEAR, HTML5/DHTML, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, XML, XSLT

Scripting Languages : Java Script, jQuery, JSON, Backbone Js, Angular Js

Open Source (CMS) : Joomla 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, Word Press 3.8, 3.9, Drupal 6.0, 7.0

E-Commerce : Magento1.6, Presta Shop 1.5, Open Cart

Frameworks : Code igniter 1.6, 2.0, Zend 1.0, ZF 2.0, Smarty

Databases : My Sql, My Sqli, MS Access, MongoDB, Oracle 10g

Testing Tools : Bug Zilla, JIRA, HP Quality Center 10.0, Jenkins

Web Servers : Apache, IIS, Zend Servers

Working Envn : WAMP, LAMP, XAMPP

IDEs : Adobe Dreamweaver, Zend Studio, Navicut

Others : MS Office Suite, Visio, Axure, Tortoise SVN, Serena Dimensions, Kdiff, Git Extensions, File Zilla, Amazon Web Services, Web APIs, UML, Eclipse, NetBeans, Nu Sphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

HealthPlan Services Inc

Tampa, FL

Sr. Web Developer Mar 2015 – till date

Projects & Roles:

Sales Link Portals:

Sales link portals consists of all external products for various carriers that includes Member portals, Broker portals, Employee portals where members can maintain their policy information within the account, renewals, payment interfaces whereas brokers can maintain the policies issued to members, commissions.

Responsibilities:

Discussing the new requirements and coordinating with team to develop the internal design &

Architecture of various portals in PHP.

Working on development of new modules of the ongoing portals for cross carriers as well as up gradations of existing modules.

Responsible for working on various fixes of the existing portals and building the hierarchy of new interface for cross carriers as well as carrier specific portals into customized framework maintained by the company.

Responsible for solving the security patches of all the service link portals related to PCI compliance and deploying it into Zend servers.

Working on complex queries to solve vulnerability of various legacy systems in DB2.

Re mediating the code-base with the depreciated functions that are no longer supported with 4.4 & modifying the business logic to make it supportive to PHP 5.3.

Creating and maintaining existing environment in GIT for the process of release & deployment with different branches.

Actively coordinating with the Linux team for any server issues and managing of post receive script to synchronize the code-base into various different branches into zend specific servers.

Working on customized framework developed internally within the interface to remove all the security patches related to PCI compliance.

Working on the legacy internal intranet application, re mediating all the depreciated functions of the version greater than 4.0 and make it compatible till 5.3.

Resolving various issues after the remediation of the application & then staging it into various GIT branches for deployment.

Working on various APIs such as payment Integration tools as well as on various protocols such as LDAP and SSO for integration of windows authentication in the application.

Working on the legacy internal intranet application, re mediating all the depreciated functions of the version greater than 4.0 and make it compatible till 5.3.

Participating in the meetings with Directors and team managers to discuss about the plan of the project, resource allocation, effort estimation and deployment schedule.

Collaborating with QA analyst to resolve the issues raised by them in testing environments in Quality Center 10.0.

Conducting meetings with QA lead analysts to discuss the functionality achieved & directions needed by them in order to perform a smooth transition while testing the features of the application.

Environment: PHP5, My Sql, DB2, NuSphere PhpED, Net Beans 8.0.2, Serena Dimensions, Zend Servers, Quality Center 10.0, Git Extensions, Java Script, jQuery, Linux

AK Systems Inc

Edison, NJ

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

Projects & Roles:

Veritas Task Management System:

It is an online application which manages various tasks of all the projects for the particular customers in a precise manner. Tasks are divided into various blocks & assigned to team members & get paid of it.

Responsibilities:

Acquired the information from the end clients of the product owner.

Worked as a fullstack developer & worked both on back end as well as front end of the system.

Gathered the information & analyzed it into separate modules.

Actively engaged in the discussion with the end client regarding the framework selection & recommended with the feedbacks.

Participated with the project manager to discuss with the modules that are to be included for the system & also the effort estimation to meet the deadlines.

Discussed with designer regarding the design specification.

Designed & developed the framework in Smarty.

Developed Projects & tasks module of each clients. Work included creating the tables by mapping from the sheet provided by the product owner. Client can filter across various filters through AJAX.

Developed module that assigns the tasks to various team members in a particular project for a specific client. Product owner can export the data into excel from grid as well as can filter the data according to various attributes.

Added functionality to export to Excel & PDF of various reports to get the daily summary of status of tasks.

Developed module to add all the email templates in the system which allows the user to modify & add the message body.

Integrated separate module which provides help of all the site map of the system to get better understanding of the system.

Interacted with the client to manage invoice of the entire application. Integrated the SDK to manage invoice which had robust features that managed all the items related to invoice.

Tracked all defects on daily basis and escalated to team members as needed for timely resolution of the critical defects.

Provided weekly status reports to the project team, project manager, and software development manager.

Responsible for deployment of the system from development to testing & testing to production environment.

Actively participated in discussions about process adherence & improvements.

Responsible for resolving the bugs raised by QA in testing tools like Bug zilla.

Performed System Testing, Functional Testing, Unit Testing and Integration testing.

Participated in day to day meetings internally with the team, project managers &with the end client.

Used Git Subversion control to store the data into server.

Responsible for the integration of future enhancements of the application with new requirements from end client.

Environment: PHP5, My Sql, HTML, CSS, Smarty, Navicut Premium, Adobe Dreamweaver, Bug Zilla, Git Subversion, Java Script, jQuery, Microsoft Office.

App Start Smart Communication Services Application:

App Start is a smart communication tool for web & mobile applications where customers can register themselves add their businesses, their scenarios & can use the smart tools of app start to enhance their business & increase their productivity.

Responsibilities:

Participated in the review and approval of project documentation (business requirements, functional requirements, design documents, workflows, etc.)

Participated in analysis, design and review meetings internally as well as with product owner.

Lead development team of 2-3 members, provide guidance to the team members on daily basis and answer their questions / concerns related to projects

Integrated Zend library & Studio to build a working environment.

Actively participated in designing database after analyzing the database.

Designed the wireframes in Axure Studio.

Created user authentication and authorization integration (ACL).

Designed modules in a separate entity to reduce the complexity of code.

Integrated Jquery plugins to make the user interface rich & user friendly.

Used third party API such as Mail Chimp, Google API, Pay Pal, Template Cloud and Media etc.

Created RESTful service to synchronize the data from web to mobile application.

Integrated different languages allowing the product owner to translate the content manually.

Tracked all defects on daily basis and escalated to team members as needed for timely resolution of the critical defects.

Provided weekly status reports to the project team, project manager, and software development manager.

Actively participated in discussions about process adherence & improvements.

Performed Validation Testing, GUI testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Unit Testing and Integration testing.

Used Tortoise Subversion (SVN) to store the builds of every user.

Responsible for the deployment of application from development to test & to production server.

Coordination with mobile application developers by helping to trouble shoot any defects reported from web portion.

Interacting with QA Analyst to discuss the functionality & bugs that are reported in project management tool Bug zilla.

Discussed with client regarding the type of tools that could be included in the application to benefit customers.

Acted as a scrum master when project manager is unavailable thus filling for it as needed.

Environment: PHP5, My Sql, HTML, CSS, ZF2, Symfony Components, RESTful API, Navicut Premium, Adobe Dreamweaver, Tortoise Subversion(SVN), Zend Studio, Java Script, jQuery, Bug zilla, Microsoft Office.

Dictionary Application of South African English (DSAE) - (Backbone JS Application):

It is an online Dictionary unit of South African English where users can search any keyword by alphabet, full text search or can match the entire word from the database. It is an application developed in Backbone Js with jQuery, JavaScript & PHP used as frontend scripting language & My Sql that acts as a model for managing the data.

Responsibilities:

Coordinated with the project manager for the data to be gathered & processed.

Designed the framework in Backbone Js to be utilized to build the structure.

Developed the UI in backend area of the website where client can upload the XML & store into the database.

Used Adobe Dreamweaver as an IDE to integrate layout into application.

Created the secured login interface for the client which enables the client to login with secured credentials.

Developed the search functionality that allows the user to filter the keyword entered.

Performed Unit Testing & Integration Testing once the functionality is achieved.

Worked with highly tensed environment for completing the application on time.

Used Tortoise Subversion (SVN) to store the builds of every user.

Priotized the work according to various modules to achieve the deadlines.

Worked directly with QA members to resolve the bugs raised using HP Quality Center.

Environment: PHP5, My Sql, HTML, CSS, Backbone Js Framework, Navicut Premium, Adobe Dreamweaver, HP Quality Center, Tortoise Subversion(SVN), Java Script, jQuery, XML.

Happy Beds Online Retailer Store :

It is an online store of furniture. It has a vast collection of various kinds of beds, mattresses, Headboards & other peripherals. User can configure the bed of its own as well as can purchase in a bundled or grouped product.

Responsibilities:

Coordinated with the client for the types of categories to be added in the store.

Gathered the information provided by the client in excel & prepared the associations for each configurable product.

Integrated the HTML layout provided by the client in to current theme & modified with the various builds of layouts sent by them.

Configured the paid extension “Color Selected Plus” for creating configurable products.

Converted the excel sheets into CSV formats of all the configurable products associated into separate CSV.

Imported the CSV from Import/Export menu which is the core functionality of magento.

Performed the indexing of the products once the CSV are imported.

Developed high level PHP script to associate of more than 60 thousand child products of single configurable product.

Executed the script into the server to associate child products & performed the indexing.

Created attribute sets & added new attributes of each categories to differentiate with other configurable products.

Created child products to be included to associate for the configurable products.

Created grouped products & associated child products into it.

Created the Static blocks & Widgets and displayed them on the front page as well as in the inner pages.

Added & configured third party magento extensions such as Amazon Payment Gateway, Creare SEO, Marketing Automation & many more to be able to use in the store.

Managed the responsiveness of the website coordinating with the graphics designer.

Trouble shooted & debugged in detail the issues regarding the browser compatibility of the website in all the browsers.

Interacted with QA to make him understand & solved the bugs raised by him.

Handled over 30 configurable products of around 3 lacs of child products associated with it & grouped products.

Environment: PHP5, My Sql, HTML, CSS, Magento, Navicut Premium, Adobe Dreamweaver, Bug Zilla, Tortoise Subversion(SVN), Java Script, jQuery.

Fertility Miracles Application :

It is an internally recognized organization& distinguished leader in field of third party reproduction reproductive & concierge services catering to prospective parents around the world.

Responsibilities:

Coordinated with the designer to prepare the layouts of all the 3 sections.

Developed structured prototype in Zend for developing various modules.

Used Adobe Dreamweaver as an IDE to integrate layout into application.

Developed the backend area of the website where clients can track the number of users who have registered in all the 3 sections.

Developed detailed information in grid for 3 sections where client can view each & detail.

Configured Amazon service mail API to send the mails from application on frontend.

Set up the test environment in Amazon server & deployed the application.

Configured the Mysql into AWS & imported the database into My Sql.

Worked on Disaster Recovery tools from AWS and performed multiple backups of other hosted applications & restored them.

Performed Unit Testing & Integration Testing once the functionality is achieved.

Worked with highly tensed environment for completing the application on time.

Priotized the work according to various modules to achieve the deadlines.

Used Tortoise Subversion (SVN) to store the builds of every user.

Environment: PHP5, My Sql, HTML, CSS, Zend Framework 1.0, Amazon Cloud Services, AWS APIs, Navicut Premium, Adobe Dreamweaver, Bug Zilla, Tortoise Subversion(SVN), Java Script, jQuery.

Megh Technologies Pvt. Ltd Guj, Ind

Programmer Analyst - Dec 2008 – Dec 2010

Recruitment web application:

It is a job recruitment application which stores the profiles of job seekers as well as employers. The purpose of the application is to help the employers to get the desired candidate who matches their requirement & allows the job seekers to get their featured job they are looking for based on their key words.

Responsibilities:

Arranged several meetings to get better understanding of the concept from end client.

Collected ideas from the end clients & participated internal meetings with team lead.

Analyzed the information & prepared the functional specification of the raw data.

Responsible for the database design & creating entity relationship diagram to get better understanding of integrity constraint.

Actively engaged in the discussion with the end client regarding the framework selection & recommended with the feedbacks.

Designed the structure of the application in Code igniter starting with back end.

Converted various forms from static to dynamic as per the priority modules to be delivered to client.

Implemented smart search functionality for keyword based search for category, industry & domains.

Structured Admin Panel for managing various DML operations of all the modules of front end.

Integrated secured authentication login interface for job seekers, employers & for Admin Panel.

Engaged in day to day delivery of tasks to team lead & also to project manager.

Performed Unit & Integration Testing after the completion of tasks.

Performed System Testing at the end of release of every build.

Responsible for solving of various bugs raised by Quality Engineers.

Integrated Google Analytics to get the traffic of the website.

Environment: PHP5, My Sql, HTML, CSS, Code igniter 1.6, Navicut Premium, Adobe Dreamweaver, Java Script, jQuery, Bug Zilla, Microsoft Office.

E-Commerce & Social Media Portal:

It is a business application where members can register themselves for free & can upload their used product & sell it online & make money from their product. Here, the product owner gets the commission of every purchase made.

Responsibilities:

Gathered the information from old system of the product owner.

Collected ideas from client as well & arranged meetings with business analyst.

Analyzed the information from the old system & new user stories from client & prepared the software requirement specification of new concept.

Worked with web designer to make designer better understand about the new layout to be designed for the new system.

Created the database design & made entity relationship diagram to get better understanding of integrity constraints of various modules.

Designed the structure in Codeignter, a PHP framework.

Developed various forms as per the wire frames designed by the business analyst.

Integrated Pay Pal API for PHP and deducted the fixed charge for the product owner commission.

Enhanced various modules like Fan, Friend & social media modules like sending comments & smileys to other members who are friends of each other.

Used libraries & plugins of Code igniter for input validations, mails, smileys, forms etc.

Implemented smart search functionality for keyword based search for members using JQuery.

Integrated secured authentication login interface form Members & Admin Panel.

Involved in day to day delivery of tasks to team lead & also to project manager.

Performed Unit & Integration Testing after the completion of tasks.

Responsible for solving of various bugs raised by Quality Engineers.

Responsible for deployment of application from development to production server.

Analyzed various future enhancements & maintenance portion of the website.

Responsible for improving the performance of application.

Environment: PHP5, My Sql, HTML, CSS, Code igniter 1.7, Navicut Premium, Adobe Dreamweaver, Java Script, Jquery, Microsoft Office.

Web Factory Pvt. Ltd Guj, Ind

PHP Developer - Mar 2008 – Nov 2008

Responsibilities:

Worked on Core PHP based projects.

Worked on small to medium level applications developed in Core PHP.

Worked on various open source such as Joomla, Word Press, Drupal.

Responsible for template integration for creating CMS web sites.

Integrated third party extensions in CMS base websites.

Template integration in E-Commerce tools such as Presta shop, Open Cart & Magento.

Customized add ons to achieve functionality in Presta shop.

Applied E-commerce template in magento.

Developed simple, configurable, grouped products in magento.

Developed CMS websites in multi language.

Integrated Social Media extensions.

Configured Payment Gateways including Pay Pal.

Applied Google API & Google analytics in web sites.

Configured SEO for CMS & E-Commerce web sites.

Proven abilities to work individually or in a team as per the situation.

Actively engaged in a team to discuss the project in a group of two members.

Responsible for the database design for Core PHP based projects.

Participated in various client meetings.

Attended seminars or workshops to come out of some innovative ideas.

Cybernation Infotech Pvt. Ltd Guj, Ind

PHP Developer Trainee (Internship) - Sep 2007 – Feb 2008

EDUCATION:

Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology, Nadiad, INDIA

Bachelors - Computer Science

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