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Udit D. - Remote full-stack developer

Udit D.

Senior Engineer @ Nine
Based in: 🇦🇺 Australia
Timezone: Sydney (UTC+10)

Summary

I am a seasoned senior software engineer with a rich and diverse background spanning 15 years. My expertise lies in a variety of technologies, with a primary focus on WordPress Development, React, TypeScript, NodeJS, Docker, GoLang, GraphQL, Kafka, and Event Driven Systems. My proficiency extends to crafting custom WordPress themes, plugins, and blocks, and I am well-versed in both the Classic Editor and the Gutenberg Block Editor. Additionally, I bring a robust understanding of database management, with hands-on experience in MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Nine | Jan 2020 - Present
PHP
Node.js
MySQL
WordPress
PostgreSQL
Redis
TypeScript
React
Kubernetes
Go (Golang)
Kafka
Express.js

Empowering newsrooms behind Sydney Morning Herald, The Age & Australian Financial Review.

Wearing below hats

🎩 Tech Lead
🎩 Architect
🎩 Observability Champion

Web Engineer
10up | Jun 2022 - Sep 2023
PHP
Node.js
MySQL
WordPress
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Gutenberg Blocks
  • Worked with a team spanned globally across Europe, Africa & Middle East.
  • Worked on a bunch of projects for 10up's clients like CNN Business Arabic, magazines like The Spectator & Apollo, Hello magazine brand & Global University Systems, in which I helped them implement their headless CMS systems using WordPress, Gutenberg Block Editor & Next.js
  • Assisted project managers & tech leads in project development, requirement gathering, technical consulting, information architecture.

Education

Santa Clara University
Master's degreeComputer Science & Engineering
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Master's degreeInformation Technology
Jul 2011 - Jun 2013

Personal Projects

OuttaTheBluesIconOpenNewWindows
2017
Node.js
Meteor
HTML
Azure
Firebase
Chrome Extension
CSS
JavaScript
React Native
Amazon Alexa
Bootstrap 5
AI (artificial intelligence)
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
As connected as today's world is, we're so obsessed with what others are up to that we barely take care of ourselves. With the Fitbit, we require a level of diligence that doesn't fit with the average person nowadays, and hence we took up the challenge of overcoming Complacency and maybe even Ignorance. We developed a chrome extension that keeps track of your health for you by analyzing pictures of just your face over a fixed interval. And since you're ignorant about it, it doesn't expect you to do anything but show up in front of your screen. We took a research-based approach to this project and got all our facts right. Turns out your face is enough to calculate body mass index (BMI), so we leveraged that with Microsoft's Facial Recognition API to keep track of you in your real life rather than your digital world.
Imagely - Yelp Image ClassifierIconOpenNewWindows
2016
Python
Neural Networks
- Developed a Convolutional Neural Network for image recognition using Yelp dataset, Inception v3 model & TensorFlow. - Worked extensively with different data mining approaches for supervised learning to differentiate images on different categories.