Rakesh Chand

• Designed and led the implementation of scalable, high-performance architectures for PR monitoring and analytics tools using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and AWS.
• Managed a team of six engineers, overseeing day-to-day development activities, setting goals, and ensuring alignment with product and business objectives.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and maintain clear documentation and delivery roadmaps.
• Mentored and coached team members, conducting regular 1:1s, code reviews, and skill development sessions, resulting in improved team velocity and a 30% reduction in onboarding time for new hires.
• Monitored and optimized system performance, reducing response times by 40%, improving uptime to 99.98%, and proactively addressing technical debt.
• Cultivated a collaborative and high-morale team environment, driving engagement, accountability, and consistent delivery across sprints.
• Oversaw the successful completion of multiple concurrent projects, balancing priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail.

Create and implement strategies that team members use to reach the goal.

• Delegate tasks to each team member based on their unique strengths and skill set.
• Offer training necessary to complete certain tasks in order to reach the goal.
• Provide regular support and encouragement to keep team members motivated and working toward a common goal.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of a team.
• Monitor each team member’s contributions and participation to ensure the project is on track to be completed in a timely manner.
• Create and distribute regular reports to management that show the progress of the project.
• Ensure resources are being used in an efficient manner.
• Project: Notifications
• Environment: Rails , MySQL, Ruby, REST web services, Rspec, GIT, React

• Involved in gathering requirements in designing, documentation.
• Involved in all the client and architecture related meetings.
• Development using Ruby On Rails Framework.
• Unit test case preparation & execution.
• Worked under AGILE.
• Bug fixing.
• Project: NUMI
• Environment: Rails v5.2, PostgreSQL, Ruby, REST web services, Elixer, Rspec, GIT, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Sidekiq, Redis, Bootstrap Design, Haml, Mac OS, JIRA, Appvoy, ReactJS

• Provided technical guidance to business analysts, gathered the requirements, and converted them into technical specifications documents.
• Development with the Ruby on Rails framework.
• Defect fixing for an earlier release.
• Support to the mobile development team to understand the REST API responses.
• Responsible for production, bug fixing.
• Project: WISE (Whirlpool Integrated Services Environment)

• Part of brainstorming sessions to discuss and gather new user requirements.
• Part of meetings with users, clients, and programmers to discuss solutions and develop scenarios.
• Developing the full life cycle of a use case (preparing the micro design document, modeling, coding, JUnit testing, unit testing, defect fixing).
• Development with the Ruby on Rails framework.
• Changes in code functionality, as per client requirements.
• Checking logs for production issues raised by users, finding the root cause, and providing a solution is a part of daily tasks.
• Conducting smoke tests and checking local logs on a daily basis to look for any issues ahead.
• Project: Connection.
• Environment: Rails v3.2, MySQL, Ruby, JavaScript, New Relic, SciTE, Ubuntu, RSpec, jQuery, Unocarn, Ejabberd, ActiveMQ.

• Developed REST APIs using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm.
• Changes in code functionality, as per client requirements.
• Performance optimization using New Relic and JMeter testing.
• Implemented user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Active Record query optimization to increase performance.
• Developed several web pages using HTML, style sheets, and JavaScript to perform checking and validations on the client’s side.
• Used GIT for version control of web pages and documentation.
• Developed with the packaging of gems.
• Extensively used JIRA to manage bug tracking in the system.
• Project: KMS (Key Management System)
• Environment: Rails v4.1, MySQL, Ruby, REST web services, SoapUI, RubyMine, GIT, Bootstrap design, Haml, macOS, RSpec, JSON, JIRA.