About

Ramkumar Karthikeyan is a highly experienced Software Engineer with over 10 years of industry experience. He has worked on all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and has a deep understanding of Ruby on Rails, with good knowledge of multiple ruby libraries. He has worked on highly challenging systems that handle sensitive data for a huge volume of users. Ramkumar has built scalable systems powered by microservice architecture and has a deep understanding of its design principles and deployment stack. He has also handled small-sized teams and coached team members on Agile and Extreme programming practices. He has worked for startups to large global businesses across Asia, including India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and Thailand. Currently, Ramkumar works as a Senior Software Engineer at WeInvest, where he has worked on building quick prototypes that were constantly enhanced based on requirements from different clients. He was part of the initial team that built the Robo-advisory platform and was involved right from the planning to maintenance phase. He has also learnt and deployed scalable systems in AWS and was involved in a security audit performed by one of the 'big four' auditing firms, where he was enlightened about various security aspects to be accounted for in multiple layers of the application. In the past, Ramkumar has worked as a Senior Engineer at Welab Limited, where he was part of the initial team that built Hong Kong's first social lending platform. He has also worked extensively on both backend and frontend modules of the product and spearheaded technical initiatives on setting up continuous integration server, automated test suite with test coverage, and many architectural discussions. Ramkumar has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from PSG College of Technology. He also has experience in building web applications for E-commerce and Educational institutions leveraging the benefits of cloud platforms. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Ruby, Microservices, AWS, test, CI/CD, Integration, Frontend, Backend, and Web. Overall, he has 13.62 years of relevant experience.