Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Professional Goals
Project Description
Accomplishments
Awards Received
Certification
Communities
Timeline
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Chandana  Shankar

Chandana Shankar

Lead Software Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

Meticulous Business Analyst with over 6 years of experience, who maximizes productivity, profitability and competitiveness by transforming technology plans into powerful Business solutions, excels as hands-on developer and oversees work of software teams. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with peers and have healthy relationships with the customer. Proved as a reliable team member by being flexible at work. Recognized as a critical resource of the team. Seeking to use the proven data analysis, problem solving and communication skills in a challenging position, while making a significant contribution to the success of the company.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Lead Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments
Bangalore
12.2022 - Current
  • Currently working on Implementing $1 Billion Dollar client (Mattel) .
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
  • Cooperated with other engineers to design performant queries and database schemas to support analytics reporting.
  • Delivered technical guidance and consultation with application teams, clients and developers for technology domain environments.
  • Directed gathering of performance statistics to assist in determining project workload and communication tools needed to support projected transaction volumes, response time and system availability targets.
  • Wrote, maintained and managed test documentation, manuals and Snappy Extract materials.

Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments
Bangalore
12.2019 - 12.2022
  • Analyze proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
  • Maintained accurate scheduling and met objectives for multiple projects running in parallel.
  • Successfully Implemented strategic client having $240 million asset.
  • Led and Managed team of five from FIDELITY, Handling work allocations and coordinating with team on technicalities.
  • Conduct trainings and provide technical guidance to junior level team members.
  • Review project specifications and design technology solutions that meet or exceed performance expectations.

Associate Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments
12.2017 - 12.2019
  • Execute data conversions and provide guidance to junior associates, if needed.
  • Design and develop conversion routines or subsystems to support increasing data conversion program complexity.
  • Responsible for creating online document repository for all the information (Domain and process knowledge) which is being used by every other team member for any kind of reference.
  • One stop solution for knowledge refreshment and complete guide for freshers.
  • Mentored Trainees on assigned task by providing technical training and collaborating with team.

Leap-Graduate Trainee

Fidelity Investments
Bangalore
08.2016 - 12.2017
  • Develop technical solutions to on-going data conversion efforts, participate in theimplementation of conversion level architecture and comply with data conversion and implementation standards. Learnt Mainframe and SAS technologies.
  • Perform technical and functional analysis to support data conversions.
  • Assist in the planning and conducting of client/user review of conversion results, reports and implementation of corrections.
  • Perform and support all phases of testing leading to the data conversion of implementation, as well as post-installation testing and correction of any conversion problems.

Education

B.E - Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering

Bangalore Institute of Technology
Bengaluru, KA
07.2012 - 07.2016

XII -

Sahyadri PU College
Kolar,Karnataka
03.2010 - 03.2012

High School Diploma -

Vivekananda Memorial High School
Malur,Karnataka
04.2009 - 04.2010

Skills

SAS EG

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Professional Goals

To use my skill sets for the growth of my organization and my own growth in the process.

Project Description

  

Project Team:

Name : Data Conversion and Implementation

Start Date: 20/10/2016

Technical Details:

Languages : JCL and Mainframe SAS, SAS EG , SAS Macro ,SQL

Operating system : Z/OS, Windows XP

Other tools : MS Access, MS Excel, TSO ,JIRA


Project Description:

DC Data Conversion team is involved in the transformation and loading of participant data for DC (Defined Contribution 401(k)) plans as a result of corporate actions, mergers or new business. Will be involved in data conversion for OLB (Online Beneficiary), data validation for TCBS (Total Compensation and Benefit Summary), enhancement projects, CDC (Client Data Control) support requests and ad-hoc reporting requests. Will work with teams including the onshore Implementation Conversion Services and Data Conversion Implementation Systems. Will develop conversion applications and routines.


Accomplishments

  • Received Appraisals for making the regular tasks simpler by automating the process.
  • Designed a website "DCI INFO CENTER" with purpose of maintaining repository for Domain Knowledge and Business process which is user friendly and easily accessible .
  • Successfully implemented 2 startegic clients with asset size of $2 Billion without any defects.
  • Mentored new employees to bring them up to speed on projects, resulting in quicker overall completion milestones.
  • Managed a team of 3 employees, ensuring that a $1 billion budgeted project was completed by the expected deadline.
  • Paper entitled ‘Collision Detection and Avoidance using Intelligent Vehicle Communication Protocol’ is indexed in the ‘Special Issue of Advances in Engineering Published by International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology(IJERMT) and Presented at the National Conference on Recent Advances in Information and Communication Engineering(NCRAICE).



Awards Received

  • ‘Delivery Excellence” Awards from the clients for the successful Implementation
  • On the Spot Award’ for the successful implementation of USAA with $12 B asset and 100k parts.
  • You-Have-Earned-It” award for the successful First Strategic implementation with $240 million asset and 15k parts.


Certification

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Communities

  • Volunteering to teach young children through local NGOs and Social Groups By being part of Fidelity Cares .
  • BIT Alumni


Timeline

Lead Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments
12.2022 - Current

Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments
12.2019 - 12.2022

Associate Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments
12.2017 - 12.2019

Leap-Graduate Trainee

Fidelity Investments
08.2016 - 12.2017

B.E - Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering

Bangalore Institute of Technology
07.2012 - 07.2016

XII -

Sahyadri PU College
03.2010 - 03.2012

High School Diploma -

Vivekananda Memorial High School
04.2009 - 04.2010
Chandana ShankarLead Software Engineer