Devan K S

Full-Stack Developer

About Me

Computer Science and Engineering graduate from NITC with a passion for challenges. I am working as a full-stack developer in Ford Smart Mobility.

I aim to learn more about different architecture paradigms and help in designing high-quality systems. My career aim is to become a software architect.

I am most skilled in: Spring Boot and VueJS

Experience

Ford Smart Mobility, Chennai

Technical Lead

January 2023 - PRESENT

  • OCPP 2.0
    • Ideate and create a new architecture to better support the scalability of the OCPP platform and allow other products to connect easily to the platform.
    • Build a completely asynchronous microservice solution for using charging protocol specified by OCPP
    • Supporting team’s increase in knowledge in GCP
    • Leveraged Knowledge: GCP Cloud Native Solutions, Scala, Play, Akka, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Kafka

Ford Smart Mobility, Chennai

Analyst

APRIL 2021 - December 2022

  • OCPP 2.0
    • 2 time “Top Achiever” Performance Grade (Scale: Top Achiever, Achiever, Lower Achiever, Unsatisfactory)
    • Created a pull request reviewable documentation repository to handle the knowledge of architecture and the team
    • Worked temporarily as a product manager handling the deliverables of the team giving insights into management flows
    • Created resources to help the extended team with Jenkins migration to new cloud space and single-handedly migrated the team’s instance.
    • As a part of the Recognition program in EV, recognized twice by the wider EV team for the support provided.
    • Leveraged Knowledge: Scala, Play, Akka, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Kafka
  • Integrated Fleet Management
    • Pseudo Technical Lead role.
    • Created strict coding standards.
    • Refactor existing pipelines to Ford standard library functions for less error-prone Jenkins.
    • Leveraged Knowledge: Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spring Boot, VueJS

Ford Smart Mobility, Chennai

Ford College Graduate

AUGUST 2019 - APRIL 2021

  • Ford Fleet Marketplace
    • Followed strict TDD principles.
    • Built a developer portal from base up leveraging easily editable markdown files.
    • Leveraged Knowledge: Spring Boot, VueJS, Webpack
  • Office Ride
    • Improved response time of an API under peak load from 12 seconds to 1.6 seconds.
    • Built a standardized Jenkins pipeline for projects with quality stages and blue-green deployment in Pivotal cloud foundry.
    • Leveraged Knowledge: Spring Boot, Java, Jenkins

Salalah Methanol Company, Oman

IT Trainee

MAY 2018 - JULY 2018

  • Built an inventory management website in Django.
    • Helped in centralizing the data between different users.
    • Increased accountability of assets taken by users.
  • Leveraged Knowledge: Django framework, Python

Education

National Institute of Technology, Calicut

B.Tech in Computer Science

JULY 2015 - APRIL 2019

  • S grade in Software Engineering lab: Required multiple projects to be submitted with strict adherence to Agile methodology and had to lead a team of 4 students for some of the projects.
  • S grade in Main Course Project: Django project using OpenCV.

Projects

Attendance Management System using Image Processing

Project Repository

B.Tech Main project

  • Used OpenCV to create an attendance management system to reduce the time taken for a teacher to record class attendance.
  • Build using Django web admin.
  • Students and teachers can track their class attendance with role-based authentication.

National Service Scheme NITC Web Page

  • A website to showcase the work of the NSS team in NITC.
  • The website can also be used to track the mandatory hours to be done as a part of course work by the students.

Organizations

NSS, Calicut

Volunteer

2016 - 2019

  • Organized multiple events in and around Kozhikode:
    • Blood donation drive.
    • SNEHARAGAM (A talent show for developmentally challenged kids).
    • Help with remote government surveys.

U&I TEACH

Volunteer

DECEMBER 2018 - APRIL 2019

  • U&I Teach invests in children from underprivileged backgrounds with courses in English, Math, Science and Social Studies.
  • Helped teach underprivileged and orphan kids as a volunteer from the U&I trust.

Extra-curricular Activities

INFORMALS

Committee head

2018 – 2019

  • Committee part of the cultural festival of NITC.
  • Handling organizing on-ground events.
  • Setup deals with bands.

I-Ink

Organizing member

2017 – 2018

  • Literary Festival of NITC (2017)
  • Handle artists and dignitaries in the literary field with organized talks

Skills

Spring VueJS
Django Scala
Jenkins Angular
Tekton Kubernetes