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Garage Labs Ltd
London, UK
Garage Labs LTD is a software consulting company in London, registered in UK. Ravishankar Radhakrishnan acts as a Director and full-stack development consultant
Garage Labs Ltd provides various highly qualified technical consultants to the various sectors in London. Garage Labs Ltd also undertakes full-stack development and mobile development in housing projects.
Garage Lab's portfolio of software development and software testing services is designed to meet all the challenges of a software delivery lifecycle.
We have previously worked with various prestigious clients including RBS, Lloyds Banking Group, Argos, Eurostar, Gamesys, Virtue fusion, R/GA, Sapient Nitro etc.
Skills
React Native React JS Redux Typescript Javascript ES7 Node.js GraphQL TDD HTML5 CSS3 BDD Jest Enzyme Webdriver.io Cucumber JS jQuery SASS LESS Angular JS Backbone JS GIT Bootstrap Agile/Scrum
Specialties
Web Development Mobile Responsive Development Mobile Apps Development Facebook Apps Development Project Management
Clients
RBS Eurostar Argos Lloyds Banking Group Gamesys Virtuefusion R/GA Sapient Nitro JWT Intent HQ RMA Consulting
Experience
Senior Fullstack Developer (Consultant)
Tally Money
May 2020 – May 2020 • London, UK
• Involved in developing and refactoring of the digital challenger bank Tally Money, which uses Tally as an alternative mainstream currency which is backed by gold, where 1 Tally equals to 1 milligram of gold in your individual banking account.
• Worked as a full-stack developer in the complete overhaul refactoring of the app to the latest standards using React Native, Redux, Typescript, React Hooks, Axios, AWS, .Net, Laravel
• Involved in architecting, developing, and testing the app refactor from the start to the release.
Senior Frontend Developer (Consultant)
RBS
Aug 2018 – Feb 2020 • London, UK
• Involved in developing the new digital challenger bank Bó as a greenfield project from the early prototype stage of the app until the app went live on App Store and Play Store.
• Involved in developing and maintaining the onboarding journey of the entire app which includes capturing the user details, identity verification journeys including the verification of the passport, proof of address documents, and selfies to the account creation.
• Involved in triaging and fixing the various prod issues on all the parts of the app including IOS and Android.
• Actively involved in liaising with various stakeholders including back end developers, designers, business analysts, scrum master, product owner in planning, and development of the app.
• The project involves TDD, BDD, Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
Senior Fullstack Developer (Consultant)
Eurostar
Apr 2016 – Aug 2018 • London, UK
• Involved in developing the new digital challenger bank Bó as a greenfield project from the early prototype stage of the app until the app went live on App Store and Play Store.
• Involved in developing and maintaining the onboarding journey of the entire app which includes capturing the user details, identity verification journeys including the verification of the passport, proof of address documents, and selfies to the account creation.
• Involved in triaging and fixing the various prod issues on all the parts of the app including IOS and Android.
Integrated the Appium framework and contributed to a greater extent on the BDD architecture of the app.
• Involved in mentoring the junior developers and testers.
• Actively involved in liaising with various stakeholders including back end developers, designers, business analysts, scrum master, product owner in planning, and development of the app.
• The project involves TDD, BDD, Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
Senior Fullstack Developer (Consultant)
Argos
Feb 2015 – Apr 2016 • Milton Keynes, GB
• Involved actively in planning, developing and migrating the legacy public-facing Argos Website to React and node JS-based isomorphic responsive website using latest cutting edge technologies like Fluxible, ES6, SASS, Bootstrap, Jest, Cucumber, Gulp etc.,
• Integrated TDD and BDD into the project using JEST (React Unit testing framework), Cucumber and Selenium.
• Responsible for creating a consistent and accessible ecomm and mcomm user journeys across various devices and browser using Bootstrap 3.0, SASS, HTML5, CSS3.
• Involved in developing and maintaining www.argos.co.uk ecomm & mcomm responsive pages including Argos search functionality, product listing page, category and category landing pages.
• Involved in developing Multi Variant Testing and A/B testing ecomm and mcomm pages using Adobe target.
• Involved in integrating third party SEO and marketing API’s like Hook Logic and Bloom Reach within the ecomm and mcomm web pages.
Front End Developer (Consultant)
Virtue Fusion
Sep 2014 – Jan 2015 • London, UK
• Involved in developing and supporting IOS and Android-based mobile and tablet bingo games.
• The games are integrated with most popular gaming operators mobile and tablet apps including Gala, Ladbrokes, William Hill, Sky, Bet365, BetFred, Mecca, Unibet and Paddy Power
• The games are hybrid apps, which are written in web technologies (HTML5, CSS and JavaScript) and that is hosted or runs inside a native container (IOS or Android) on a mobile device.
• Involved in the development of new games, supporting most of the latest Android and IOS devices.
• Involved in the development of adding new features to the existing games.
• Involved in rewriting the build tasks including Grunt and ant scripts.
Front End Developer (Consultant)
Lloyds Banking Group
Jan 2013 – Aug 2014 • London, UK
• Involved in developing and maintaining Desktop and Mobile websites of Lloyds Banking Group Viz. Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, TSB (which involves all internet banking websites of retail and commercial brands of the Lloyds Banking Group)
• Involved in the redesign of public-facing LBG Websites and made it mobile responsive\
• Involved in the development of new initiative pages
• Developed Proof of Concepts pages
• Responsible for maintaining and fixing bugs of legacy code, estimation, and delivery
• All the code went through complied W3C, Accessibility, and other finance regulatory standards
Front End Developer (Consultant)
RMA Consulting
Dec 2012 – Jan 2013 • London, UK
HSBC MIP – IPAD Application
Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Object Oriented Java Script, PhoneGap, Angular JS
Git. Agile/Scrum
• Worked on phone-gap and the other latest Javascript frameworks like Angular JS.
• Involved on front end development using HTML5,CSS3 development of the project compatible with iPad.
• Worked closely with the designers giving much attention to detail bringing the application design
closer to the design specification with a richer user interface.
Front End Developer (Consultant)
JWT, Digital Agency
Dec 2012 – Dec 2012 • London, UK
• I was involved in building a new website for www.kitkat.co.uk for their latest branding campaign to the latest Web and Mobile standards.
• I was involved with hand-coding HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and other latest technologies supporting browsers from IE 6+.
Front End Developer (Consultant)
Gamesys, UK
Nov 2011 – Nov 2012 • London, UK
• Worked on creating a finance-based trading facebook game, in which you can bet against your Facebook friends on the real trading market.
• Game was fully iPad compatible and made using HTML5, SASS, CSS3, and Backbone.js.
• I was involved from the conception of the game through the release and maintenance of the project.
Front End Developer (Consultant)
R/GA, Digital Agency
Aug 2011 – Nov 2011 • London, UK
• Part of a team of .Net and Flash Developers delivering creative rich CMS UI for Nokia Retail.
• Project was deployed worldwide across all Nokia retail stores.
• The CMS gave complete end-to-end search, email, and buy functionality across all Nokia products.
• Involved in developing and blending the .Net 4, JQuery HTML, and CSS components together.
• Involved in coding cross email client compliant Nokia promo emails also.
• Single point of UI contact for the entire project.
Front End Developer (Consultant)
Sapient Nitro
Jul 2011 – Aug 2011 • London, UK
• Revamped the www.sports.ladbrokes.com online Sports booking page.
• The website developed is to be compliant with Cross Browser compliant, W3C, and DDA standards which ensures website are accessible to blind and disabled users as well.
Front End Developer (Consultant)
Global Dawn
Jan 2011 – June 2011 • London, UK
• Pepsi Refresh is a social networking website that was launched globally across 22 countries at the same time.
• The website gives the platform of uploading the talent videos from the users and proceeds on with the selection for the winner round by round based on the votes.
• The Project is based on Agile / Scrum methodology involves the prototype design, development, and maintenance using technologies like HTML5, CSS3, JQuery Templates and JavaScript MVC architecture.
Front End Developer
Bally Technologies India
Dec 2007 – Dec 2010 • Chennai, India
• Migrated ACSC (Advanced Casino System Corporation) from AS400 architecture to Web 2.0 Webdesign.
• Single point contact for ACSC GUI – User Interface design team.
• Designed entire UI architecture for the project with a focus on user-centered designs.
• Completed the design with the utmost fulfillment of web2.0 and browser compatibility standards.
• Core team member of Bally Web design and usability panel.
• Introduced enhanced usability features in the project using JQuery, Fiji charts, and Ajax.
• Web Designs using custom styles for JSF architecture.
• Develop skin and themes that promises rich and never before seen look and feel to the application.
Front End Developer
Cisco Offshore Dev Centre (HCL Technologies)
Oct 2006 – Dec 2007 • Chennai, India
• Cisco Works LAN Management Solution (LMS) is a suite of powerful management tools that simplify the configuration, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of Cisco networks.
• Involved in creating a rich and powerful web UI that is used by across Cisco clients to configure the Cisco devices using the web platform.
• Created Real-time Cisco devices complaint application with web 2.0.
Front End Developer
Cash Edge
Mar 2006 – Oct 2007 • Chennai, India
• Aggregate now enables financial institutions to offer customers the ability to see and manage all of their accounts, held away and hosted by the financial institution, in one convenient interface.
• Aggregate Now harvests historical, transaction-level detail from any source, be it a web-based investment bank/brokerage, internal client information, or a third party resource.
Education
Anna University
Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering
2001 – 2005 • Chennai, India