Ravishankar Radhakrishnan

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 stake holders 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 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 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 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 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 which 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 focus on user centered designs.
• Completed the design with utmost fulfilment 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 which 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.

Anna University

Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering

2001 – 2005 • Chennai, India