Arvind Mehra

About Me

Hi there! I'm a Ruby on Rails developer, collaborative team player and leader, with over 10 years of experience in crafting high-quality software.

I've worked with big techs, including BloomandWild, Smart Pension London, Tata Consultancy Services, McKinsey & Company, Appster.

My area of interest in programming is to scale and optimise the application.

I have graduated from Rajasthan Technical University in Computer Science. I'm currently working as a Senior Software Developer at Bloom and Wild Ltd, in London, UK.

Resume

Experience

2021 - Present
Smart Pension, London, UK

Senior Ruby Developer

  • Architected, documented, and delivered multiple features improving pension withdrawal and customer lifecycle flows.

  • Built and maintained automated test suites using RSpec and Cypress to improve confidence in releases.

  • Acted as production support engineer, resolving P1 and PX incidents within SLA through deep system and infrastructure understanding.

  • Participated in hiring, conducted code reviews, and mentored junior engineers to raise overall code quality and engineering standards.

2018 - 2021
Tata Consultancy Services, Gurgaon, India

Senior Developer

  • Improved the performance of an employee timesheet system by optimizing complex SQL queries and implementing caching strategies.

  • Upgraded the Rails application from version Rails-3 to Rails-5 with ~zero production defects.

  • Created APIs for a mobile version of a web application for the client McKinsey & Company.

  • Led a team of 4 developers to work on a POC meant for use as an internal tool using Rails and React.js.

  • Gave a technical presentation on AWS Serverless Architecture to introduce acceptance in multiple new projects.

2016 - 2018
Appster, Gurgaon, India

Ruby on Rails Developer

  • Introduced Ruby on Rails tech stack to a company of circa 100+ PHP developers. I was the first Rails hire in the company.

  • Delivered multiple Ruby on Rails projects as a sole Ruby developer in the given time frame with a high client satisfaction score..

  • Built a team of 5 Rails developers by hiring and mentoring new Rails developers. Played a crucial role in organizing technical interviews..

  • Created a user Sentiment-Engine and a Recommendation-Engine based on user inputs in the application..

  • Developed APIs and admin panel for user-heavy applications

Education

2008-2012
Rajasthan Technical University, India

Shankara Institue of Technology

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

Meetups

2023
London

London Ruby User Group

Redis Memory First Meetup

Skills

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Ruby
  • Hotwire
  • Stimulus
  • RSpec
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • OOPs
  • Postgres
  • Mysql
  • AWS
  • Agile
  • Redis
  • Kafka

Contact

London, UK

bloomberg490
@gmail.com

Freelance Available