Amit Gaur
Technical Lead at Red Ant
Sydney, Australia
Hello, my name is Amit Gaur. I have a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Cincinnati.
Currently, am working as a Technical Lead at Red Ant technical agency, Sydney.
Before my move to Sydney, I worked as a Development lead at Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Things that I am really good at:
Setting up processes and workflows for smooth development and deployment of software. Writing well tested, performant and modular application logic in Ruby / Ruby on Rails, JS frameworks such as React. Designing scalable/reusable systems.
Things that I am good at:
Managing client expectations and translating requirements into usable software features.
Working as Technical lead on multiple client projects.
Responsibilities include:
* Performing peer code reviews.
* Maintaining, extending with new features and modernising legacy applications.
* Implementing standard backend APIs for green field projects.
* Application health monitoring and site reliability engineering.
Worked as development lead of Oncology Clinical Trial Management System and its subsystems for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago.
Responsibilities include:
- Setting up long term development roadmap of the projects.
- Perform peer code reviews, and contribute in constantly improving the development process.
- Mentoring junior developers.
- Planning and designing database schema for extending existing functionality and refactoring legacy code.
- Implementing new full-stack features after gathering requirements from the stakeholders.
- Implementing standard API interface for interaction with external systems.
- Optimizing legacy code and removing bottlenecks for increasing system performance.
- Running adhoc sql reports for administrators.
- Developing standard reporting functionality for Grant submissions and administrative workflows.
Played key role in Cancer Center achieve "Outstanding" score for National Cancer Institute re-designation as Comprehensive Cancer Center; making it among the select few in entire country.
Developed a demo application in VB which illustrated Emotion Detection abilities of third party software and also worked as a Java developer for an ongoing project ASRK (Agent Screening & Rating Kiosk).
Awarded UGS (University Graduate Scholarship) at University of Cincinnati for graduate studies.
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