Nitin Hayaran, Developer in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Nitin Hayaran

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Design Developer

Location
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Toptal Member Since
January 16, 2015

Nitin has over ten years of development experience in teams and companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies to tiny startups. He was a co-founder and developer at a stealth-mode startup. He has contributed deeply to independent and startup projects, from envisioning business models to design and implementation of the products. Nitin is a geek at heart, always learning.

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Sublime Text 3, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I've designed and developed is a fairly complex photo organization and uploading tool which runs on the client side in a browser.

Work Experience

Co-Founder and Developer

2012 - PRESENT
Spaces23 Software Labs
  • Developed the entire website, which allows users to publish travel journals.
  • Contributed to the API design and development.
  • Created a fairly complex client-side application with over 10K LOC.
  • Singlehandedly devised application deployment, scaling, and testing strategies.
  • Designed elements of the web and mobile applications.
Technologies: CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, Django

Service Provider

2011 - 2012
Hungama Digital Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
  • Developed an algorithm for data cleaning and merging from various sources.
  • Contributed to the music recommendation engine.
  • Programmed the music search engine.
  • Involved in the development of accompanying Windows and Android applications.
Technologies: Java, Python

Service Provider

2009 - 2012
KOTOKO GROUP, LLC
  • Designed and developed a custom Wordpress theme template.
  • Designed multiple layouts and prototyped umoja.com.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop

Team Lead

2011 - 2011
Playeon Media
  • Developed an iOS application to view video content for Playeon.
  • Worked on a sync protocol which allowed users to sync their devices with a single account and control offline video availability on any device.
  • Worked on the development of the website and contributed as part of the design team.
Technologies: Flash, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Django, Python, iOS

Team Lead

2008 - 2010
Nautanki.tv
  • Architected and developed the main site's front end.
  • Architected the design of an ad serving algorithm which includes geo, time, and property targeting.
  • Developed various reporting systems, including ad reporting to publishers and site owners.
  • Designed and developed a Live Streaming system as well as conducting various live streaming chat sessions with celebrities.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, Memcached, Django, Python

Service Provider

2008 - 2008
Rediff.com
  • Developed a native groups and events application for Rediff's application development platform.
  • Devised application and database scaling strategies.
  • Assisted during the development of Rediff's application development platform.
Technologies: JavaScript, MySQL, Django, Python

Senior Developer

2007 - 2008
Youtopia.in
  • Created a social network using Django.
  • Designed and developed an image and video discovery tool, which was used by over 10K users with an average visit duration of 30 mins.
  • Developed an algorithm to automatically curate the best of pictures from various social websites.
Technologies: MySQL, JavaScript, Django, Python

Associate Developer

2007 - 2007
Oracle Finance
  • Implemented and maintained an internet banking portal for various clients in Africa.
  • Developed a password/PIN printing utility for three banks in Africa.
Technologies: Oracle 10g, Java

IT Engineer

2004 - 2007
NTPC Ltd.
  • Built a Online HMS (Hospital Management System) using .NET and MS SQL Server 7.0.
  • Developed an “E-Office,” an Online Office Automation System.
  • Created a reporting system for OPPMS (Online Plant Performance Monitoring System).
  • Helped migrate from a legacy RDBMS to a new Oracle-based system.
  • Wrote various office automation scripts, which are still being used at the company.
Technologies: Java, Active Server Pages (ASP), ASP.NET

MuzicGenie

A music recommendation engine. You just have to select one song which you like, and it will keep playing other songs which you might like.

Its like a radio with the baseline being the song you first selected. Was featured on Lifehacker, Hacker News, and various other websites. Still gets almost 3K daily visitors, with more than a 40-minute average visit duration.

Personal Blog

Also designed and developed, custom theme for my blog.

Languages

JavaScript, HTML5, Python, Active Server Pages (ASP), Java, CSS, Markdown, Sass, CSS3, HTML, SCSS, Less, Objective-C

Frameworks

JavaScript MVC, Django REST Framework, PhoneGap, Bootstrap 3, Django, ASP.NET, Bootstrap, Flux

Libraries/APIs

jQuery Plugins, jQuery, Twitter API, Facebook API, Backbone.js, Node.js, React, Socket.IO, YouTube API, Facebook Open Graph API

Tools

GitHub, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Sublime Text 3, Git, Flash, Adobe Photoshop

Paradigms

Functional Programming, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UX Design

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Oracle 10g, Memcached, MySQL

Other

Web Development, Design, Chrome Extensions, App Design

Platforms

MacOS, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2, iOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linode, Rackspace

Industry Expertise

Web Design

2013 - 2014

Master's Degree in Systems Engineering

Banaras Hindu University - Varanasi, India

2009 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

G.B.Pant Engineering College - Pauri, Garhwal

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