About

Abitha Shankar is a highly experienced Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware with over 13 years of versatile experience in RESTful web service development of software for Email archiving, Intelligent Supervision solutions, IOT software stack, Smart TV, and Android-based smartphones. She has extensive experience in system analysis, design, development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancements on various IT projects. Abitha has a proven track record of timely delivery of projects while leading the team during turbulent times delivering on high value, high visibility product features. Abitha has a broad range of technical skills including RESTful Web service development, Microservices, Java Programming, strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms, Design Patterns, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design to develop applications for performance and scalability. She has the ability to work independently, under pressure, to multitask, attention to detail, and work towards deadlines. Abitha has received several awards for her outstanding work, including Spot award for developing RAML Parser for Iotivity Project, Employee of the month recognition for Audio middleware baselining on Galaxy Amazing Device, and Nipun Best Project award in recognition for the Open source Contributions for Iotivity. Abitha has worked with several companies in the past, including proofpoint, where she worked as a Senior Software Engineer, and Samsung, where she served as a Chief Engineer. At proofpoint, she gained experience with building scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed SaaS systems from design to production for Email archiving and Intelligent Supervision solutions. At Samsung, she developed Restful Web services using Spring Framework for IOT Edge computing, design and development of Notification Service, RAML parser, Json Schema Parser for IoTivity Project, an open-source software framework to address the emerging needs of the Internet of Things. Abitha has a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Electronics and Communications from PES Institute of Technology. She also has a Pre-University degree from Mount Carmel College. Abitha's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Spring, Web, Java, dotNET, Redis, ASP.NET, MySQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, Microservices, ML, Backend, Senior Software Engineer, and Mobile. With 12.04 years of relevant experience, Abitha is an expert in her field and a valuable asset to any team she works