Amala Menon

Experience

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  IROHUB Infotech

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2019

  Internship for Android Development
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  Pallikkutam

  Feb 2019 - Aug 2019

  Data Strategist

  I was part of the PalIikkutam research team. The main goal was to increase the number of people accessing the website. Published articles were condensed to form summaries, which were later published on the Quora website. I had attended the 48 th Rajagiri Round Table Conference and submitted a blog for PalIikkutam’s web page on the topic of education.

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  Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology

  Mar 2019 - Jul 2021

  Placement Student Coordinator

  Coordinate placement drives for 2020 and 2021 pass out batches.• Present welcome speeches for the companies, arrange food and snacks for the interviewers.• Coordinate with the students of those on waiting lists and those placed.• Excellent placement results in 2021 with 484 students placed with 913 offer letters.

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  V-Guard

  Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

  Information Technology Summer Intern

  Internship in the IT department of V-Guard. IT is one of the key departments for the success of various products in the market.

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  Cognizant

  Oct 2019 - Jan 2020

  Student Intern

  Cognizant's Digigreen Project:Farmers are facing a challenging time to sell their produce at a good price. The aim was to build an application that will help farmers and consumers know the end to end journey of the produce. The solution is to build knowledge among consumers, about the ever growing demand and ever shrinking farms.

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  UST

  Aug 2021 - Sept 2022

  I have worked at UST GLOBAL as a DevSecOps architect. It consists of 3 parts that are Development, Security and Operations.As a DevSecOps architect, I worked with one of the world's-leading FMCG/CPG manufacturing companies. I developed branching strategies for the application team, coordinated and conducted meetings, updated the security tasks, optimized the time needed to execute the pipelines, and created new continuous integration continuous deployment (CICD) pipelines. I have worked with various environments like Dev, QA, Pre-prod, and Prod for different regions across the globe. During the migration phases, I handled multiple support requests. I was responsible for creating oracle images that are deployed to non-production and production environments for multiple regions around the globe. I documented reports for client reference in the future. Helm and Kustomize were new tools our team researched, implemented for a project and presented to the stakeholders. Our team was highly appreciated for the new solutions that we presented to the clients.Achievements:•Project Ganitham- to Teach Mathematics to economically backward students• Second position in On-stage Presentation Contest- Women’s Day• Second Runner-up for Evaluation Contest Toastmasters Kochi Club• Second for Freshers Day Dance Contest• Third position in Article Writing (English) Contest –Women’s Day• Member of Manufacturing Cluster Newsletter - “Manuf’Skripts”• Test speaker for Toastmasters’ Evaluation Contest Area - Level H1 District 121• Completed Level 1 and Level 2 of the pathways program Dynamic Leadership• Completed Servant leadership course, Budding Leadership Program, Future leaders program, and Achieving Leadership Program by enParadigm. Show less

  • Developer I - Software Engineering

    May 2022 - Sept 2022

  • Associate Software Developer

    Aug 2021 - May 2022
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  Indian Institute of Management Kashipur

  Aug 2023 - now

  Successfully spearheaded Siddhi the flagship Case Competition of IIM Kashipur under Perennial 2024 Organised events such as DecipHR, Sribble Dribble, Pragyan, Ignite, Guest lectures, Siddhi-PerennialCollated newsletters, Instagram and LinkedIn postsA visit from Dr. TV Rao

  • Secretary and Senior Executive Member HRhythm (HR Club)

    Feb 2024 - now

  • Executive member of Academic Forum

    Mar 2024 - now

  • MBA Student

    May 2023 - now

  • Junior Executive Member HRhythm (HR Club)

    Aug 2023 - Feb 2024
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  NatWest Group

  Apr 2024 - Jun 2024

  Process Lead Payments Investigation (Payments CoE)

  Royal Bank of ScotlandThe project Title: Process Optimization for Clearing based InvestigationsThe goal was to increase the efficiency of the team by 10% by recommending solutions based on simplification and automation of processes. Creating a matrix or grid to plot benefits vs feasibility of the solutions. The solutions included moving to digital from cheque payments, eliminate low value transactions cases, improvement of image capturing systems, understanding suspense accounts, moving to automation etc. Show less