About

Kalidas Muthusamy is a Full-Stack Software Engineer with over 6 years of relevant experience in the industry. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and React and has a keen interest in telling technical and non-technical stories through his blog on Medium. Currently, Kalidas is a Senior Software Engineer at codebrahma where he leads a lean team in building an Omni-channel Customer Retention and Employee Training Platform. He has designed and developed various features such as an Automated Ticketing System, an Omni-Channel Communications Platform, and Breakout Rooms using Twilio Video API for Employee Learning Platform. Kalidas has also architected and implemented Sub-Domain and OAuth Integration for better app customization. He is responsible for managing the Application's AWS Infrastructure and has leveraged the infrastructure by moving Cron Jobs to AWS SQS and using Redis for performance/reduced Database load. In his previous role at codebrahma as a Software Engineer, Kalidas managed the e-commerce website of India's largest luxury retailer as a sole full-stack developer. He was responsible for requirements gathering to managing AWS resources for the website. He completely automated the Products Inventory Sync Process using Google Apps Script and Rails Rake tasks and optimized Load Balancer and Auto Scaling setup, which helped the website handle traffic ranging from 30 to 5000 users without making a dent in AWS Budget. Kalidas also integrated Payment Gateway and built Reporting, Mail Notification System for a B2B Lending Platform and developed multiple screens of the Patient Portal for a Y-Combinator-funded Telemedicine web-app Platform. Kalidas holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from Bannari Amman Institute of Technology. He has gained hands-on experience in JavaScript, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails during his internship at codebrahma. He is proficient in various technologies such as AWS, Redis, NLP, Elastic Search, Integration, Redux, and Web.