Nitin Hayaran
Verified Expert in Engineering
Design Developer
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.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
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
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.
Service Provider
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.
Service Provider
KOTOKO GROUP, LLC
- Designed and developed a custom Wordpress theme template.
- Designed multiple layouts and prototyped umoja.com.
Team Lead
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.
Team Lead
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.
Service Provider
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.
Senior Developer
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.
Associate Developer
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.
IT Engineer
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.
Experience
MuzicGenie
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
Skills
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
Education
Master's Degree in Systems Engineering
Banaras Hindu University - Varanasi, India
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
G.B.Pant Engineering College - Pauri, Garhwal
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