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Raviteja Yarlagadda

Herndon,VA

Summary

  • Professional 9+ years of experience in the IT industry including Software Development, Web Applications.
  • Exposure in working with Agile Methodologies & participating with Sprint meetings, daily Scrum , sprint review meetings.
  • Having hands-on experience in creating custom modules and custom themes using base themes.
  • Experience in integration of various APIs such as Mail Chimp , Google, Facebook API integration & vice-versa.
  • Competent Project Leader skilled at team coaching and motivation. Proven success in meeting project deadlines, goals and objectives. Terrific interpersonal, problem-solving and organizational talents.
  • Talented Project Lead with strengths in client management and problem-solving. Highly effective at managing multiple, concurrent projects.
  • Working experience in integration of REST & SOAP Web Service that includes calling external web service using JSON and XML & developing internal service to integrate with mobile applications.
  • Performed Unit & Integration Testing after the functionality is achieved.
  • Experience in versioning control packages like Tortoise SVN , Git version control.
  • Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ) and different phases involved in software development.
  • Experience in planning, scheduling, coordinating and leading all aspects for projects & good Analytical, Problem Solving, Training and Leadership skills.
  • Able to work under limited supervision in a fast paced environment with tight project deadlines and changing priorities.
  • Excellent communication, documentation and organization skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment quickly & ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to work independently as well as team person.
  • Hands-on experience in Drupal 9 Migration (from Non-Drupal sites to Drupal), Apache SOLR, Custom theming (Desktop and Mobile), Views, Panels, Drush, Context and Features, Hooks API.
  • Worked with the Drupal CMS system to build sites for clients of all sizes, including an eCommerce site, brochure sites, and more.
  • Experience includes Drupal 7, 8, 9 custom Drupal theming, experience with CCK, Views, Ubercart, and more.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Lead/Solution Architect

American Federation Of Teachers
2018.05 - Current
  • Responsible for requirements gathering and documentation, software and database design, implementation and function in support of our central database and related department-specific requirements
  • Worked on migration project for Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and also experience on data migration from Mysql to SQL
  • Working on Cross platform integration with laravel and multisite working on Drupal 9/8
  • Experience on integrating Knack ticketing systems and also creating workflow for JIIRA to work with different stakeholders
  • Working experience on integrating headless drupal with Vue.Js as UI technology
  • Work with the software and database development team, and customer support and training team to help ensure software is user-friendly and easy to support
  • Identify innovative, cost-effective ways to implement and support software and database technologies
  • Recommend and communicate to staff the latest technological tools to solve productivity issues
  • Experience on building deployment pipelines for different environments on Jenkins and also had aws integration for file uploads and server balancing load design
  • Experience developing web applications in a Linux environment and knowledge of extending Drupal using custom modules
  • Experience using Web APIs to extend web applications and incorporating third party features such as social sign-in and data gathering/reporting
  • Experience using client side Java Script libraries such as AngularJS, Knockout and Backbone.js, use of jQuery and AJAX , XHTML, CSS and cross browser compatibility
  • Creating a business flows which will make the CI/CD (Continuous Integration and continuous deployment) process for the biweekly deployments
  • Sometime depends on the importance hotfixes will be deployed into production without waiting for the life cycle
  • Depending on the business requirements I will organize the deployment process in a structural flow so every team working on the project will be involved in all phases like requirement gathering, development, testing and deployments
  • Environment: PHP (LAMP), Drupal, Laravel, Vuejs, XHTML, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, Restful services, Web Services, SOLR, PHPUnit, Docker, Jenkins.
  • Implemented best practices in documentation management systems that improved efficiency, accessibility, and security of project-related information.
  • Enhanced client satisfaction by consistently delivering high-quality projects within budget and on schedule.
  • Led team of engineers in providing design and engineering solutions to various clients and market sectors.

Full stack Drupal Developer

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, MWAA
2016.04 - 2018.04
    • Custom programming and web application development for Drupal
    • Working on migrating drupal 7 website to drupal 8
    • Responsible to architect enterprise Drupal solutions including data, display, and information architecture
    • Drupal 8 module development including modules, features and themes using TWIG and YAML; including, creating, modifying, deploying, and troubleshooting issues in custom code in modules and features
    • Drupal environments using GIT, Drupal VM, Acquia BLT, SOLR, and DRUSH
    • Testing, maintenance and troubleshooting of existing company sites
    • Contributing ideas and efforts towards internal projects and working as part of a team to find solutions on various problems
    • Translating several pages into multi-languages
    • Used Vagrant to create VM's for drupal project for different users in business and concession teams
    • Working on Command line competence in Linux to be able to work with sandbox instances
    • Used Docker to deploy the Drupal 8 code into Acquia
    • Drupal Multisite setup, extensively worked on Drupal Hooks API
    • Scalability (Varnish, Memcache, APc etc),Assigning Memcache Servers and Bins, locking, stampede, entity query
    • Working with the ITIView API to convert the Json data from the client to the business requirement using node.js
    • Designs and develops user interfaces for web and intranet apps by establishing detailed program specifications utilizing software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies and tools
    • Translates business requirements into executable sprint packages or technical design specifications
    • Worked on automation testing tools like PHPUnit
    • Coordinates technical requirements, designs, schedules and contractor/vendor activities to finalize the development of apps
    • Maintains the repository for source code
    • Ensures that all source code is reliably backed up and versioned to prevent disruption to the project team(s) working to develop apps
    • Environment: PHP, Drupal 7&8, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, JQuery, JIRA, Restful services, AJAX, Web Services, Acquia BLT, SOLR, PHPUnit, Docker.
    • Developed user-oriented visuals and features using front-end languages to increase site traffic.

Drupal Developer

American Petroleum Institute
2015.04 - 2016.03
    • Drupal module development, both contributed and non-contributed
    • Responsible for development and maintenance of all company websites, web server administration (IIS on Windows platform), database design and administration (SQL), content management and maintenance (Drupal 7.x), Custom PHP development, migrating pre-existing static web content(Non-Drupal) to Drupal
    • Configuration of Drupal, troubleshooting and bug fixing
    • Learned the Experience on working with Ubercart
    • Modified source code according to the requirement with Drupal
    • Establish a seamless workflow for content load with access control and revision control
    • Maintenance (security patches, upgrades), troubleshooting, testing, and deployment of website
    • Worked on Moodle management which is eLearning site configured Moodle and Drupal
    • Creating a custom weather module to display data from services.faa.gov
    • Extensive Drupal experience and active in the Drupal Community attending and presenting at conferences and camps, developing new modules, and offering support to other users and developers
    • Worked on JIRA for Agile software development process
    • Used Jira ticketing system and (previously) Mantis as a bug and feature tracking tool
    • Developing the application using PHP, RESTful APIs, AJAX & other technologies
    • Worked with Management to create project specifications and documentation and also designed, evaluated, enhanced, tested, troubleshot, and maintained PHP applications
    • Environment: PHP, Drupal 7, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, JQuery, JIRA, Restful services, AJAX, Web Services.

Drupal Web Developer [Intern/ Part Time]

Orprize LLC
2014.10 - 2015.03
  • Worked on PHP (LAMP), XHTML, JavaScript, CSS in a Drupal environment
  • Worked mainly on Drupal nodes, blocks and Drupal forms
  • Performed bug fixes, implemented new features and integrated web content
  • Implemented Google Analytics and dap code on each page, which helps to drive the evolution of the product
  • Created and deployed new features to pause auto archiving of nodes
  • Enabled Expertise Sprite rating to display values as per user information and participation via posts on respective nodes
  • Involved in Implementing authentication features using OAuth API
  • Worked in the environment of bootstrap
  • Enabled logging and automatic alerts based on comment message post statuses
  • Developed charts using Google charts API, to describe profile % complete and show profile match percentages which were displayed in user nodes
  • Written queries for data transactions based on events
  • For better performance and code standards used 508 compliance and Fortify scanning tools
  • Worked on displaying new help messages on various pages
  • Worked on XHTML, DOM markup structures of blocks to match different CSS style sheets
  • Performed debugging using tools like firebug and web developer
  • Reported bugs and updates in features using QAR process and rally tools
  • Used rally tools for feedback, bug reporting and documentation
  • Environment: PHP (LAMP), Drupal, XHTML, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, SVN, Rally, SCRUM.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Virginia International University
Fairfax, VA
01.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Kakinada Institute of Engineering And Technology
India
01.2013

Skills

  • Leadership skills
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Information Technology Management
  • Documentation And Reporting
  • Gathering requirements
  • Data Management

Timeline

Project Lead/Solution Architect

American Federation Of Teachers
2018.05 - Current

Full stack Drupal Developer

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, MWAA
2016.04 - 2018.04

Drupal Developer

American Petroleum Institute
2015.04 - 2016.03

Drupal Web Developer [Intern/ Part Time]

Orprize LLC
2014.10 - 2015.03

Master of Science - Information Technology

Virginia International University

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Kakinada Institute of Engineering And Technology
Raviteja Yarlagadda