Arun Vishnunamboothiri

Senior Software Engineer

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Software Engineer with more than 11 years of experience in diversified fields of Web Application Development/Maintenance. During this career, I have involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Analysis, Design, Development and Testing


I am a JavaScript enthusiast and love building intuitive and performant web applications for the end users with a variety of web tech stacks - JavaScript, Node.js, HTML/CSS.


Outside of that, I love traveling, photography and having an interesting conversation over a great cup of coffee.


Work Experiences

Senior Software Engineer

Ellie Mae | Feb 2018 – Present

Ellie Mae is the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry.
As a Sr. Engineer, I work for the Next Gen Cloud applications team to build applications that help lenders across the industry originate more loans at lower costs, reduce time to close, and make smarter decisions.

  • Successfully delivered EllieMae’s web and mobile Loan origination applications built on AngularJS, React Redux tech stack (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)
  • Led multiple scrum teams to deliver 3 releases in 2019.
  • Technical ownership on multiple applications.
  • Provided sprint end demos to showcase the applications to Products and other cross functional teams.
  • Developed application in new tech stack and help other teams to get onboarded to same tech stack.
  • Roughly 75-80% hands-on coding and rest of the time helping the team for the ease of delivery.
  • Contribute to early quality activities, including peer reviews of estimates, designs and code
  • Identify, Resolve defects/bugs during testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
  • Worked cross-functionally with various teams - product management, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results

Environment - JavaScript, React, Redux, Redux-Saga, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, RESTful Webservices.

Senior Software Engineer

GoPro | Dec 2017 – Feb 2018

Build and maintain a suite of web based applications for GoPro - Web Login, Media Library, Account Center.

  • Ownership of projects from technical design to implementation - Created architecture design documents.
  • Worked closely with design to sign off on new features or enhancements.
  • Enhance and maintain our internal frameworks and tools.

Environment - JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS3

Senior Associate, Web Applications

Cognizant - Wells Fargo | May 2016 – Dec 2017

Help Wells Fargo’s Digital experience team, developing and maintaining Online banking system. The app enables the customers make transactions, view accounts and map their savings needs - establishing a way to save amount and engage the customer in an ongoing savings conversation.

  • Developed single page frontend application
  • Redesigned components for web accessibility and tested/debugged with screen readers and real devices to make sure they’re usable by all our customers
  • Developed reusable components, plug-ins and responsive interfaces in custom JavaScript framework and React.
  • Troubleshot errors and resolved issues in pre-production environments.
  • Analyzed business requirements, provided feedback and developed plans to meet the requirements.
  • Tracked long-term development and performed code reviews and merging

Environment: JavaScript, React, Node.js, RequireJS, jQuery, Jade, HTML5, CSS3, Dust.js, Gulp, Less, JSDoc, Karma, Jasmine.

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture | Sep 2010 - May 2016

Multiple projects for Accenture with varying roles that ranges from a developer to tech lead positions for various clients - Apple, Walt Disney, Cisco etc.

  • Led customer-facing applications for Walt Disney internet customers to plan their vacations on Various Parks and Resorts.
  • Led and delivered UI application for Apple that is used in the stores to capture user store orders.
  • Created seamless UI/UX experience for a high traffic customer facing applications and performed maintenance fixes for the same - www.disneycareers.com
  • Sprint planning, pre-planning activities; Sprint Demos - Presented major enhancements/changes to business and other teams.
  • Performed code reviews for peers and junior developers. Documented project and development work.
  • Implemented software change requests (CRs) to deploy new features and defect fixes into production environment.
  • Onshore Coordinator and Technical lead for a Custom analytics application for AT&T. Business team uses this to get valuable insights about visitors to applications and generate graphical/excel reports.
  • Created cross browser compatible web pages - turning mockups into pixel-perfect HTML with photo editing tools and created well-organized CSS.

Software Engineer

QBurst Technologies | Oct2009 – Aug 2010

Qburst is a full-service software solutions provider that works with clients to maximize the effectiveness of their business through the adoption of digital technology. As a software engineer, I worked on developing and maintaining products for multiple clients.

  • Developed and maintained websites, applications, and databases (SQL) utilized by 1000’s of students and staff (Students Portal for Manchester Metropolitan University Business school)
  • Designed the database identifying entity relationships and normalizations
  • Worked in Agile team to design, develop and maintain different Web based applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript / jQuery, JSON, PHP and Java.
  • Created RESTful web services and carried out application performance improvement – applied lossless compressions, Web and DB optimizations.
  • Implemented unit testing for the first time in team and created confluence documentations for the app.
  • Developed video recording modules.
  • Performed bi-weekly product deployment/releases to staging and live servers.

Software Engineer

iTraitz IT Solutions | Mar 2008 – Aug 2009

Project: Paranet Corporation Services - Annual Registration Management Service. A web based application for Paranet Corporation Services. It prepares and tracks annual report filings for US based companies.

  • Worked with client and other developers to gather requirements, developing report generation modules.
  • Created cron task for archiving reports with PHP and MySQL.
  • Supported, maintained and improved the existing modules.