About

Alagappan (Alan) Ramu is a Lead Software Engineer at Applied Data Finance with over 11 years of relevant experience in software development, user interface engineering, and Python programming. He possesses a diverse range of technical skills, including proficiency in Python, JavaScript, Java, R, Shell Scripting, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, C#, .NET, Django, Flask, Node.js, AngularJS, jQuery, D3js, Solr, Lucene, XML, JSON, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, git, mercurial, Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce, Android Development, Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Eclipse, PyCharm, and VIM. He has also been exposed to and is familiar with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, R Programming, Web Services, APIs, MongoDB, Scala, StandardML/ConcurrentML. Alagappan has previously worked as a Software Developer Intern at Decision Pace, where he created various data visualization templates using D3js, Google Charts, DataTables and developed dashboard templates using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, SVG, and Bootstrap. He was also involved in the development of the Decision Pace platform into two distinct web applications, one running on the client machine and one on the cloud server. He has also worked as a Web Development Student Assistant at the University at Buffalo, where he designed and developed a revamped Alerts system and service status dashboard for the university’s IT Policy and Communications team and implemented an improved search box on the UBIT website with categorized search using the Google Search Appliance framework. Alagappan holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a B.Tech degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. He also completed his HSC from SBOA School and Junior College, Chennai, and SSC from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Anna Nagar, Chennai. Alagappan's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, Web, SQL, MongoDB, Ruby, Javascript, MapReduce, PHP, MySQL, Hadoop, Flask, Python, Spring, Search, and Apache Hive. He maintains a personal website at http://alagappanr.com/ and his Github profiles can be accessed at https://github.com/alagappanr and https://gist.github.com/alagappanr/.