Kumar A.

Experience

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  Symphony Teleca

  Jan 2011 - Mar 2018

  • Spearheaded development for VB as a senior developer and developed solutions to enable customers to assign all category planograms to all stores to simplify the visualisation of inventory.• Integrated 3D design technologies (Google SketchUp & Ruby) to achieve real-time, interactive planogram rendering and spatial analysis.• Improved system speed and user-friendliness, ensuring the updates were smooth and the retail layouts were accurately displayed.• Worked closely with cross-functional teams such as UX designers and business analysts in improving product features and user experience. Show less • Developed a feature-rich iOS application for Symphony EYC, streamlining retail planning and data access.• Engineered the application in Xcode, wrote code with AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and created responsive and user-friendly interfaces.• Developed web APIs to connect with the iOS application and have a fast data-feeding process.• Supported PDF creation and download to view and retrieve key reports with just a few mouse clicks.• Optimised app performance for features interacting across stores and categories.• Integrated store selection and planogram categories, allowing users to personalise their experience. Show less

  • Technical Lead

    Jul 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Jul 2014 - Jul 2017

  • Software Engineer

    Mar 2012 - Jul 2014

  • Associate Software Engineer

    Jul 2011 - Mar 2012

  • Internship Trainee

    Jan 2011 - Jul 2011
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  Symphony RetailAI

  Apr 2018 - Mar 2023

  • Worked as Lead Developer for a CAD-based application that modified and integrated CAD drawings that were used to update and improve retail store layouts.• Designed functionality to edit saved floorplan data from AutoCAD in a way that maintains the transfer of data and sync.• Managed a microservices architecture and put DevOps and CI/CD pipelines in place to automate deployments, increase software quality, and minimise downtime.• Spearheaded software performance optimisation by working on the software code and database queries to make the software work faster and respond better.• Used containerisation to deploy and manage applications more easily in different environments. Show less

  • Senior Software Developer

    Sept 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Lead Engineer

    Apr 2018 - Sept 2021
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  SymphonyAI

  Mar 2023 - now

  Associate Development Specialist

  • Build and improve Retail Insights, a web app used by retailers and CPGs, using an Angular frontend, .NET microservices, and Snowflake and Azure SQL databases.• Follow a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach and write clean, maintainable, scalable code.• Implement asynchronous communication using SignalR, Redis, and Azure Service Bus to optimise real-time data processing.• Reduced AKS usage cost and Snowflake costs by optimising the API with Snowflake, Redis, Synapse, and Azure Function App.• Continue developing the Master Suite CI/CD pipeline to simplify the deployment and integration process. Show less