Nitin Arora

Experience

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  Microsoft

  Jun 2005 - May 2011

  Software Design Engineer

  Bing I worked in the Autos team within Bing. The goal of Bing Autos team was to cover auto related queries being searched in Bing and provide users with useful and rich data. I worked on the front end specifically on the Autos Research page. adInquiry and adDiagnosticsadInquiry is an ASP .NET application talking to a WCF web service. It is a diagnostic tool for Microsoft adCenter Delivery Engine (DE). AdDiagnostics is an ASP .NET based application. It was a critical V1 effort which takes adInquiry to the next level by analyzing the data to figure out the exact reasons about why an ad may not be showing up on the search engine and suggesting resolutions to advertisers.I worked on frontend and was the sole owner for designing, implementing and deploying Ad Diagnostics UI, which is the most important part of this external facing tool.Microsoft adCenter DesktopMicrosoft adCenter Desktop is a campaign management tool to help advertisers manage their online advertising inventory. I worked on the UI and deployment of Microsoft adCenter desktop. I worked on the UI and deployment of Microsoft adCenter desktop. Show less

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  Thomson Reuters

  Jun 2011 - Jul 2013

  Senior Programmer Analyst

  InfinityLawAbout the project – InfinityLaw is a highly sought after legal accounting and management system by small to medium sized law practices in New Zealand and Australia region. It is highly featured and fully integrated legal accounting, management and marketing system.Role & Responsibilities – As a senior member of the development team, I have had the opportunity to work on an array of activities like delivering complicated new features and fixing hard to solve and critical bugs, rewriting SQL stored procedures, adding features to website part of the product which is in ASP .NET website. Part of my responsibilities also included proving technical guidance to the implementation team which deals with onboarding new clients as well as fixing potential code defects on the live site and helping existing clients with server upgrades. At the same time, to keep up with newer and better ways of developing software, we were redeveloping InfinityLaw as a more Microsoft Office like looking product using .NET 4.0, C# 4.0, Windows Presentation Foundation (using MVVM design pattern). Show less

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  Datacom

  Sept 2013 - Jun 2015

  Senior .NET Developer

  1.IGMSAbout the project – Immigration Global Management System will replace the current management system being used by INZ. It’s the biggest project that Datacom has ever undertaken. Role & Responsibilities – IGMS team consists of multiple verticals and platforms. Because of this complexity it’s important to ensure that developers are following a common set of standards to design, develop and test their features. I worked with Development Manager as part of the Dev Assurance team to ensure all the development standards are being followed. This involved development of tools to monitor build quality status, sync ups with tech leads, generation and communication of code quality reports, code reviews. 2. GSFAAbout the project – Government Superannuation Fund Business System is an ASP .NET MVC application that’s going to provide interface to GSF Authority and employers to be able to login and manage GSFA member’s data. The system ensures that right amount is paid to the right member at the right time.Role & Responsibilities – As a senior member of the team I have to set an example by delivering complex new features with high quality and fixing bugs and issues. Features and technical documents are delivered upon the teams agreed upon schedule. Because of the complex nature of the project, it has meant that I need to work closely with the lead, and Business Analysts to figure out requirement and ensure timely delivery with high quality. Show less

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  Hewlitt Packard

  Jun 2015 - Sept 2015

  Senior Developer Contract

  I worked as senior developer within a team which worked on implementing next generation passport security enhancements and upgrading the entire technology stack.

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  NV Interactive

  Sept 2015 - Dec 2015

  Senior Developer Contract

  Working with award winning NV Interactive, Microsoft New Zealand partner of the year 2015 on acclaimed websites and apps.

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  Rolls-Royce

  Jan 2016 - Jul 2018

  Senior Developer Contract

  Working on Rolls Royce SMS solution which is used by over 150 airlines around the world. It’s a safety management solution supporting various workflows like incident management, audits, analyzing risks, occurrences and findings coming out of it. It’s an ASP .NET MVC website built using Microsoft stack of technologies. Over last 12 months we have been rewriting the UI for newer modules using React framework – React, Redux, NPM and ES6.

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  Flow State Tech

  Apr 2018 - now

  Director
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  Westpac New Zealand

  Aug 2018 - Nov 2021

  Senior Web Developer Contract
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  Xero

  Nov 2021 - Jul 2022

  Senior Software Developer
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  EVisaPrime

  Sept 2022 - now

  Co-Founder