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Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Awards and Achievements
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SoftwareDeveloper

Sourangshu Roy

Hunslet, Leeds

Summary

Driven and ambitious, enthusiastic about learning and innovating, bringing in new ideas and enhancements. Idea Champion 2021 at my current company, a senior software development professional, adept at various stages of the development lifecycle right from gathering requirements, developing scopes, effort estimation and managing project timelines. Promoting Agile methodology, training and mentoring junior employees while developing and overseeing cohesive, productive teams. Also managing offshore delivery centres from the UK. Being with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) for the last 12 years, worked with a number of American and European clients and understood the market outlook and customer perspectives thoroughly. Since 2019, part of the technology division of a retail giant, which is headquartered in Leeds, UK. Successfully delivered two retail solutions consisting of web portals and mobile apps. The 'Scan and Go' shopping app is something I am proud to be part of. Efficiently leveraged Walmart Cloud Native Platform and was the first to adopt Kubernetes to containerise web apps and adopt a microservice based architecture. Currently my winning Idea is being considered as next project in the pipeline.

I am keen to join a company where I can gain more expertise as a software developer, make my experience useful, while learning and growing professionally.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Developer

TCS Customer - ASDA Stores Ltd, Leeds
01.2019 - Current


  • Successfully developed and coordinated the large-scale software developments and deployments of Customer facing applications like 'Scan and Go' Shopping app.
  • Coordinated efficient rollout of the App in 25K Handheld Devices Zebra PS20 in more than 300 stores in the UK.
  • Innovating new ideas for increasing customer experience and engagement.
  • Gathered live user feedback and improved user interface and ease of use in subsequent releases.
  • Proposed and developed a new Adhoc Stock Replenishment system to allow store operators and assistants handle unforeseen demands of certain products. Result was a simple mobile app to quickly create adhoc depot orders for products with high seasonal demands or sudden bulk orders by customers.
  • Continually working with marketing and business teams to enhance existing features and add new features like Shopping Lists
  • Optimized the E2E testing flow through incorporating Test Automation frameworks like Detox etc.
  • Proposed new idea in speeding up the shopping process by reducing queues at personnel operated tills and ultimately proved to be helpful in reducing crowds during the pandemic situation last year
  • Promoting Agile methodology and work in Sprint framework to help in formulating minimum viable products
  • Technically refine the backlog cards and help Scrum Master and team in delivering Sprint cards

Senior Developer

TCS client - Kingfisher/Castorama
02.2017 - 01.2018
  • Efficiently converted large legacy Store Checkout application into ReactJS (front-end) and NodeJS(backend) application, and deployed as containerised app using Docker for the first time in the project.
  • Converted large monolithic backend application in PERL to NodeJS application and broken down into Microservice architecture.
  • Planned and developed interfaces that converted apps for simplified overall management and offered ease of use.
  • Produced robust, accurate code that minimized production issues.
  • Successfully developed B2B (business-to-business) web portal apps using React JS

Developer

TCS client - SuperPages
01.2010 - 01.2017
  • Supporting and developing American Yellow Pages ETL solutions
  • Responsible for developing a backend application using NodeJS for converting book indexes to JSON documents to be saved in MongoDB
  • Lead Release Management team for 4 months, responsible for managing the production release of applications
  • Developed scripts to Extract-Transform-Load business information using PERL and Shell scripts.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology
West Bengal, India
04.2006 - 09.2010

Skills

    Web app development - React

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Accomplishments

  • Helped in huge Cost Savings - Automated the whole manual testing process of Card Payment testing on Verifone devices which completely removed any requirement of using manual testers to test payment process and saved costs. I developed a NodeJS app and hooked it to E2E test flow to call Verifone SDK APIs which mimicked human interaction while using debit/cards to pay using card machines.
  • Conversion of monolithic backend app and breaking down to several parts to a microservice architecture oriented application and deployed as Docker containers to Azure. Later adopted Kubernetes contianer orchestration. This was awarded for best practice in the domain.

Awards and Achievements

Winner of TCS-ASDA Ideathon, 2021 : For an idea of Health App for aiding customer’s healthy diet journey, allergen and calorie alert etc.


Special Initiative Award 26-Oct-2021: Creating common component library having reusable components/libraries like Laser scanner, UI components etc that can be used in any application in ASDA.


Special Initiative Award and ASDA Star 02-Mar-2021: Helping rollout of application in UK stores


Star of the Month : For Cost savings for automating manual testing of Card payment process


Service Commitment Award: Tata Consultancy Services for various engagements for 10 years

Timeline

Senior Developer

TCS Customer - ASDA Stores Ltd, Leeds
01.2019 - Current

Senior Developer

TCS client - Kingfisher/Castorama
02.2017 - 01.2018

Developer

TCS client - SuperPages
01.2010 - 01.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology
04.2006 - 09.2010
Sourangshu Roy