About

Niyanta Zamindar is an experienced Ruby on Rails developer and software engineer with over 8 years of experience in developing, testing, and maintaining large-scale web applications using Ruby on Rails in an Agile fashion. She has worked with applications ranging from ERPs, OTTs, and CMS, thereby getting well acquainted with multiple domains like Healthcare, Media, etc. Her skill set includes programming languages such as Ruby (1.9.x, 2.x) and Go (1.13), frameworks like Rails (3.x, 4.x, 5.x), Rspec, jQuery, Ginkgo, gRPC, and React, databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MariaDB, versioning tools like Git and Bitbucket, deployment platforms like Heroku, and CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Concourse. Niyanta is an expert in framework creation and web application development, creating developer documents, conducting SCRUM meetings, team creation and ramp-up plans, and decision making. She is a mentor to many, helping them learn and contribute substantially. She adds value to the team by contributing to discussions, brainstorming the best implementation approach, and writing clean and easily manageable code. As an effective communicator, Niyanta has been a representative for her project in front of multiple clientele. She has created multiple project capability documents, gathered project requirements, and brought excellent work ethics and top-notch professionalism into a team while delivering the best results. Currently working as a Chief Engineer at Samsung, Niyanta is developing a framework using Go to support gRPC services, migrating the framework from Ruby/Rspec to Go/Ginkgo, and developing and maintaining Ruby APIs to support the authorization/authentication model. She successfully transitioned colleagues from manual teams into automation, facilitating development task contributions. In the past, Niyanta has worked as an Associate Consultant at GlobalLogic, where she developed a framework using Go to support gRPC services, migrated the framework from Ruby/Rspec to Go/Ginkgo, and developed and maintained Ruby APIs to support the authorization/authentication model. She successfully transitioned colleagues from manual teams into automation, facilitating development task contributions. She has also worked as a Software Developer at Bitla, where she developed an online ticket booking system for buses, resolved production errors for the Global Delivery System, implemented the one-time-password functionality bolstering security of client services, and developed a business intelligence tool for data analysis. Niyanta holds a Bachelor of Engineering (