About

Ashik Panchangam is a Senior Software Engineer at Zscaler with over 7 years of relevant experience in software engineering. He holds a Master's degree in Software Engineering from San Jose State University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. He also has a background in education and teaching from Sri Kumaran's Children's Home (CBSE). Ashik's expertise lies in front-end-first full stack engineering and he has worked with a wide range of programming languages including Java, J2EE, JavaScript, MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Memcached. He is proficient in web technologies and IDE's such as ECMAScript, HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SASS, Bootstrap, Semantic UI, Eclipse, VS Code, and Atom. He is also experienced in libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS, Redux, Spring, Hibernate, Vue.js, Struts 2, AngularJS, jQuery, Node.js, Robot Framework, and Selenium. He has worked with various tools and cloud platforms including Git, Subversion, Perforce, Webpack, JMeter, Jasmine, Mocha, JUnit, AWS, Azure, Heroku, Docker, JIRA, and GitLab. At Zscaler, Ashik is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable UI code using the client-side Backbone-Marionette Model View Framework. He has developed new UI features to provide better user experience to clients utilizing company products. He ensures the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application by implementing Test Driven Development (TDD) approach with Mocha Testing Framework and Chai assertion libraries. Prior to joining Zscaler, Ashik worked as a Software Engineer 2 at F5 Networks where he was responsible for the design, development, and testing of the UI for AGC (Access Guided Configuration) wizard of BIG-IP APM (Access Policy Manager). He has also worked as a Software Engineer 2 at Solix Technologies where he led a team to build a mobile responsive and secure web application called Patient360, which qualified providers could use to get real-time patient information to better coordinate care. Ashik's tech stack includes Software Engineering, UI, Test, Javascript, SQL, Product Manager, AWS, Azure, Selenium, Web, Redis, Docker, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Spring, Redux, Frontend, NodeJS, VueJS